We love watching the Olympics. There are so many inspiring, amazing, wonderful performances. I just can't believe some of the things that people are capable of, and I mean that in the best way possible. Bravo to China for the superb opening and closing ceremonies, and to the athletes for these awesome games . But they could have been better....
To China: DON'T CHEAT. You have more people than any other nation, and you work hard to train your athletes. They should be able to compete with anyone. Sticking prepubescent girls in the women's gymnastics competition and lying about their ages is shameful.
To the women's gymnastic judges: Time to retire. Maybe your eyesight is failing. Maybe you are incompetent. Maybe you are corrupt. (We are already aware that China is willing to cheat to win.) One thing is sure--you are a huge blotch on the Olympics, awarding ridiculously high execution marks for obviously flawed performances by the Chinese 'women' (term used very loosely). You stunk it up, big time.
To NBC: We don't appreciate having to stay up into the middle of the night to see the most popular events, like gymnastics. And why couldn't we see more of the volleyball matches, more tennis, more of the decathlon, and less of marathons and race walks. A little of the beginning, a little of the middle, and the very end would be great for those. Seriously, who wants to watch people run or walk for several hours? There had to be some better choices. I realize that your strategy is to tease and promise and get people to watch as much as possible while they wait for their favorite events, but I feel annoyed at the missed sleep and things I would have liked to see that were chopped up or missed altogether. I don't intend to buy anything that your sponsors advertised, and I'm not changing my mind about how I will vote for president. I wish everyone who didn't like the coverage would complain by closing their pocketbooks, because it is all about money to you.
But a huge thank you to Michael, Dara, the rest of the swimmers, Derek, Jonathan, Sasha, Nastia, Shawn, the US volleyball players, Chinese men's gymnastics, Russian women rhythmic gymnastics, so many others....we loved watching you. We loved your hearts and spirits and your amazing abilities.
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I like the comic strip "Get Fuzzy". Lately Bucky Katt has been complaining about the Summer Olympics. "Apparently they're a summer job for disgraced ice skating judges....Did you not see the gynasticals? And them-if gymnasticians were 16 years old, I'm a monkey's significant other. Lemme tell ya something! I've seen older kids at a sit'n'spin party" was his rant for today. I would love to post the strip, but that must be illegal.
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