It's the OLYMPICS!!! my thoughts...

i love the olympics. it's got everything...drama, sports, various ages participating, and healthy competition within the international arena. some friends of mine consider me addicted, especially as i don't seem watch much sports games throughout the year. but it's the OLYMPICS...how can you NOT watch with anticipation the competition between the very best athletes in the WORLD who are mainly competing for the sake of competing and do their country proud. unlike american sports where the athletes seem to get more spoiled by the year and the games have become all about the money rather than the sport and the fun of competing. where's the dedication? as an olympian, dedication is ingrained, training is brutal and it's survival of the fittest is key. whether you win or you lose, an olympian remains an olympian forever.

i don't understand how anyone can miss that asians tend to age slower than caucasians and other ethnic groups. this may be why the chinese womens gymnastics may look younger than others. considering the amount of training these chinese women have to maintain throughout their lives...i consider that equal to other standards. not too mention the threat of death by their own gov't if they lose---allegedly!!!!

hey, what is up with handball? i didn't even know this is an olympic sport. running, jumping, hurdles, rowing, wrestling...it get that the ancients competed in those sports but handball? i don't understand it...is it basketball? is it soccer? is it lacrosse? how the hell did this sport get overlooked when the IOC decided to get rid of softball and baseball. yeah...baseball and softball are american dominated sports. so, if that's the issue and the criteria for eliminating them, then get rid of badminton it seems only china and indonesia dominate THAT "sport."

i love watching volleyball. whether it's team or beach...it just fun to watch. especially beach volleyball where it seems amercian music rules and it's a friggin' beach party in cali rather than in the motherland. the dj plays like 20 songs over and over so that by the time the first set is over, even the afghanis watching the game (in the stands or in their tent) can sing the first 3 lines of chumbawamba's "i get knock down/but i get up again/you never gonna keep me down" or queen's "we will rock you."

and why do the men's beach volleyball get dancing girls during the breaks/time-outs? why can't the women's volleyball get some straight "thunda from downundas?" sheesh! grab some of the soccer guys from brazil...i know they'll dance for the women's beach v-ball. those guys will dance for anything...and i MEAN anything.

speaking of beach v-ball...i just watched beach v-ball between georgia and netherlands. georgia won in only 2 sets and let's just say the dude with the curly hair on the georgia team was very HAPPY about that...especially south of the border. after the game point, he made a dramatic run from the sand ALL the up to the top of the stands to stand by the georgian flag. and this is where you can see his "happiness" prominently or as the chinese would describe it "his sacred jade." what's even more interesting than THAT is the georgian beach v-ball players are actually brazilian. they gave up their citizenship and couldn't play for 2 years in order to play for georgia. we are talking about the country of georgia or the republic of georgia...not the banjo-playing, "squealin' like a pig" georgia. so what the hell do these guys know that we don't that they would give up their citizenship to a county now at war with friggin' Russia? raise your hand if you think it's just a matter of time before georgia is gobbled up by the ruskies! cease-fire, my arse.

anyway.....................back to th big O (olympics, i mean). why do i find synchronized swimming so fascinating and scary. it's so fascinating to see how long these women are able to hold their breath and do all those intricate moves with their legs (let's see if phleps can do THAT! i still think they should check his DNA for dolphin or seal chromosomes). but it's so frickin' scary when the pop out of the water and you see their faces. YIKES!!!

as this is an olympics where so many of the sport events are being televised for the first time, the announcers for the sychronized swimming were scrabbling to get a clue on how the sport was actually judged. they finally got a professtional and former synch swimmer to help explain the sport. there's the swordfish move and the blender as well as the scissors with a bit of chopping involved. i felt like i was watching to the Food Network. i confess that i might've made up a few of those names but that's what the moves looked like to me. before they get into the water they do some weird-a** pose before diving into the water. then the swimmers pop out at the end of the routine with grins that rivals the joker's in this years batman. the make-up...omg...the make-up is sooooo scary. worse than tammy fae baker, ariel from little mermaid at disneyland and amy winehouse put together. it's no wonder this sport wasn't telelvised mainstream. it's too scary to have close-ups.