The Olympic Dream!!!

With the Olympics well on their way, and Michael Phelps winning Gold Medals like they are candy, I believe that this has been one of the most exciting, devastating, controversial and memorable Olympics that I can remember (except of course the 1992 Barcelona Olympics with the original "Dream Team").

From the start the US team has been battling closely with the Chinese for Medal contention. As of right now the Chinese lead us 35 to 34 total medals, while they are completely embarrassing every nation with the gold medal count of 22, with the US in a distant 2nd with only 10 (Michael Phelps having 5 of those around his neck). The US also has golds in Shooting, Cycling and Fencing. Surprisingly the US woman swept all the medals in Fencing.

It has also been an amazing Olympic event not only for countries like the US and China who demolish everyone and are expected to be contenders for every event, but also for the "no-name" countries that people don't even know exist. For the first time in Modern Olympic history that anyone from the country of Togo has won a medal. Togo is a small country in Africa where the kayaker, Benjamin Boukpeti, came from and won the Bronze. Once the realization came to him that he has won the medal, he raised his oar above his head and with great enthusiasm and utter amazement he cracked it over the front of his kayak. It is moments like this one that make people want to be an athlete for their country.

People do not want to see cocky countries who are disappointed with a silver or a bronze (cough Sweden cough cough), who believe that they were robbed out of a Gold. Deal with it man! You bitched 4 years ago in Athens when you got Silver, now you are bitching about a Bronze. Here's an idea.....stop being a whiny bitch and work harder than your opponents. Mr. "I Will Never Wrestle Again".

This Olympic is also not without its injuries. Unfortunately these things happen, especially when you are trying to stand out against the best in the world. During the weightlifting event a Hungarian, by the name of Janos Baranyai, was trying to snatch 326.3 lbs above his head, just as he lost control of the bar and gravity took over. Janos quickly grabbed his right shoulder as he hit the ground. The weight of the bar had completely dislocated his elbow. With pain and tears in his eyes you cannot help but wonder if they were for the dislocated elbow he just sustained or for the years and years of training that were meant for this one disappointing moment.

The one thing that I can't stand about the Olympics is the fact that even though events are being broad casted on several stations they all show the same damn thing! Plus, it is all the events that we constantly see, such as tennis, basketball, baseball, etc, etc. I want to see things that I never see...like kayaking, judo, diving, shooting and so on!

Also, I know that we kick ass in the pool and that Michael Phelps has become a house home name, but I don't want to hear the same news over and over about him. I don't want to know that he eats 12,000 calories a day, and that he swims 5 hrs a day. I don't care! And stop taking away from the rest of the events.

What is even worse than that is the fact that we might have the worst commentators EVER on NBC. Tiki Barber should stick to football, and the rest of them are just completely killing me. We couldn't find former Olympic medal winners to speak on NBC? No, we had to find the worst people ever. This is a global event, don't you think that we should have great newscasters!?

Well, I wish the US the best of luck with the remaining Olympics and I really look forward to watching the Track & Field. I will have to wait and see if they show any Discus.

For full coverage on all the events check out NBC's web page at http://www.nbcolympics.com/

I don't know about you, but I can't wait for the trampoline event starting on Saturday!