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Aug. 14th, 2008 01:52 amso i'm actually sorta keeping up with the olympics. i told myself i wouldn't simply because... well... i pretty much despise the summer olympics. i feel like everyone (especially athens 04: korea's men's gymnastics) gets cheated except in maybe 3 sports: track, swimming and volleyball.
when i say i've been keeping up, then, it's really that i've been watching the recaps and the stuff that comes on between 10 and 1 at night on broadcast tv. like... the machine also known as michael phelps. his musculature scares me. but he is AWESOME. i like that he's maybe two minutes older than me, but he's just slamming through records. world records and olympic records and personal records. HE SWAM WITH HIS GOGGLES FULL OF WATER AND BROKE THE WORLD RECORD. i nearly died when the commentator was like "well, if you wanted to know if he could do it with his eyes closed... there's proof."
i've been watching the gymnastics too, but it tends to annoy the hell outta me. the too-prissy attitude of the usa women's team. the ridiculously underage china women's team. the way the commentators point out every little mistake, like they could do it better. the way the competition's changed since then to where you get bigger points for more difficulty, and you don't even have to be good at the rest of it (if you do really amazingly well on a "simple" routine, you can and generally do score worse than someone with a "difficult" routine who falls or doesn't stick their landing). AND OH MY GOD IF I HEAR ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE HAMM BROTHERS, I WILL SLICE SOMEONE. seriously. they sucked. i'm glad they're not there.
i felt really bad tonight for a few of the men doing the all-arounds. there was one japanese guy that, just after the commentators said 'no one falls off the rings,' the ring just slipped out of his hand and he did a floppy dismount down to the mat. just.... slam. and then there was the german guy who like... was supposed to be awesome on parallel bars and the high bar and he just.... choked. fell off the high bar.
anyway. yay olympics! hopefully track will be better/easier to pay attention to.
also, how about this for fun: 3 swimmers from UofL's swim team are swimming for their native countries of hungary, belarus and romania. how awesome is that? another swimmer graduated from sacred heart here in louisville. another male swimmer for the bahamas graduated from seneca in 06. AWESOME.
when i say i've been keeping up, then, it's really that i've been watching the recaps and the stuff that comes on between 10 and 1 at night on broadcast tv. like... the machine also known as michael phelps. his musculature scares me. but he is AWESOME. i like that he's maybe two minutes older than me, but he's just slamming through records. world records and olympic records and personal records. HE SWAM WITH HIS GOGGLES FULL OF WATER AND BROKE THE WORLD RECORD. i nearly died when the commentator was like "well, if you wanted to know if he could do it with his eyes closed... there's proof."
i've been watching the gymnastics too, but it tends to annoy the hell outta me. the too-prissy attitude of the usa women's team. the ridiculously underage china women's team. the way the commentators point out every little mistake, like they could do it better. the way the competition's changed since then to where you get bigger points for more difficulty, and you don't even have to be good at the rest of it (if you do really amazingly well on a "simple" routine, you can and generally do score worse than someone with a "difficult" routine who falls or doesn't stick their landing). AND OH MY GOD IF I HEAR ANYTHING ELSE ABOUT THE HAMM BROTHERS, I WILL SLICE SOMEONE. seriously. they sucked. i'm glad they're not there.
i felt really bad tonight for a few of the men doing the all-arounds. there was one japanese guy that, just after the commentators said 'no one falls off the rings,' the ring just slipped out of his hand and he did a floppy dismount down to the mat. just.... slam. and then there was the german guy who like... was supposed to be awesome on parallel bars and the high bar and he just.... choked. fell off the high bar.
anyway. yay olympics! hopefully track will be better/easier to pay attention to.
also, how about this for fun: 3 swimmers from UofL's swim team are swimming for their native countries of hungary, belarus and romania. how awesome is that? another swimmer graduated from sacred heart here in louisville. another male swimmer for the bahamas graduated from seneca in 06. AWESOME.
