- If you took the fabric from one man’s beach volleyball uniform you could easily make all of the collective women’s beach volleyball uniforms. Why they want to play with sand in all their crevasses is beyond me.
- The “athlete” blowing the whistle for the rowing teams, gets the same medal as the rowers. Score!
- According to NBC’s coverage of gymnastics there are approximately 6 other gymnastics in the world other than the USA gymnastics.
- If you come in fourth you are a huge disappointment and your name is not even mentioned, even if you only lose by .03 seconds. You can’t even blink that fast but none the less, you stink. Go home practice harder for the next four years so that maybe you can make something of yourself for the next Olympics.
- Every time they say “Copacabana” I am singing Barry Manilow’s song and wondering how it is north of Havana, which is clearly in Cuba.
- USA’s Olympic athlete Maya Dirado has slightly buoyed my enthusiasm towards watching thirty million laps of swimming. Her smile is contagious. I love her. I also love the South African sprinter Wayde van Niekerk and his 74 year old grandma coach. They rock!
- When I think about what these athletes can actually do, the speed, the strength they have I realize that even if I practiced every day since birth I could never ever accomplish what they do (except for perhaps the whistler in the rowing boats, but even that I would probably be distracted and ruin the whole race for them.) They truly are amazing!
- The questions that the interviewers ask the athletes whilst they are still gasping for breath after finishing their events need work. How do you put these Olympics into context for you? (I don’t think I can), How do you feel right now? (Exhausted, obviously), Does this experience match with your Olympic dream? (No, winning the gold is a big letdown).
- Part of the criteria for being an Olympic athlete seems to be that you also have to be gorgeous. How can these people not only rock at their sport but also look amazing doing it (with the exception of the slow motion camera shots on the runners. Even people with 0% body fat have cheeks that jiggle in slow motion).
- The bonnets for men’s water polo have to go. There has to be a more manly solution to whatever protection those bonnets are providing. This needs to be addressed ASAP.
- If the USA is not competing in an event, we root for any country that we can connect to at all. If they represent any part of our DNA, that counts. If we know someone who lives there, that counts too. If the athlete loves Jesus, definitely counts.
- Go USA!