It’s started already …

While NBC was rolling its tape of the Opening Ceremonies from Beijing, the Czech Republic took home a gold medal in women’s air rifle.

One of the trivia items the announcers threw out drove me up the wall. I heard in passing one flag bearer pointed out as literally one against the world, his country’s lone athlete, but it took me a while to check which country online. Turns out the one-man Olympic team is weightlifter Itte Detenamo from Nauru, the AP says at the NBC Olympics site. Even if he doesn’t take home any medal, someone oughtta sign Detenamo up for an ad campaign.

BTW, I found several answers to the question above, but Detenamo’s the only one that checks out with the Olympic athletes by country list at Yahoo!

Just one night and I’m already suffering from Olympic trivia overload …