Olympic anecdotes

Former major leaguer Clinton Zavaras, one of the imported members of the Greek Olympic baseball team, tells the Miami Herald about people-watching in the Olympic village cafeteria:

"Just yesterday, Yao Ming walked by with his cafeteria tray, and a tiny gymnast from Romania crossed past him, and she barely went up to his thigh," Zavares said. "I saw a guy from the Republic of Moldovia, and I'm like, `What is the Republic of Moldovia?' Made me want to find a map and look for it. The village is everything you think it will be."

It's a fun piece about the athletes' life in Athens, worth reading even though there's not any baseball news in it.