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The Olympics Are On?

August 12, 2008 · Filed Under NBA, Uncategorized 

beijing olympicsby the goat… I have no idea how it happened, but somehow I am into the Olympics.

It may have been the U.S. beating the French swimmers who had shit talked the Americans.

French swimmer Alain Bernard fueled a media frenzy before the men’s relay when he said:

“The Americans, we are going to smash them, that’s what we came here for.”

Other French team members went so far as to say that the Americans were scared.

When I heard this I was actually nervous. If you think about it swimming can be a form of fleeing, and the French have so much of that in their history that it is entirely possible it has altered their DNA.

They very easily could have developed gills and webbed feet just in case they have to flee down the Seine when the Luxembourg Army takes Paris. Thankfully they did not, and the U.S. made Frenchie eat his words (what I will forever refer to as the “Beijing Breakfast”).

I also found quite a bit of enjoyment watching the Mens Basketball team destroy the Chinese. At one point about 30 U.S. points in a row were the result of Lebron James taking (not stealing or blocking, literally physically removing) the ball from someone and sending it down court for some ridiculous dunk.

Wal-Mart, Tibet and human rights violations aside, China just scares the living shit out of me. It may be the Cold War upbringing, but they just give me that Rocky IV feeling.They wear red all the time, unless they are wearing their military uniforms. They walk in perfect formation and rarely smile. I get the feeling that just looking at them on television will cause me to get nuked any minute. It’s like the ’80’s with the Russians all over again.

So the U.S. is killing it in the pool, Phelps is 3-0 on his quest to history, mens Basketball smoked the hosts in the first round, Venus and Serena are cruising to the third round and even the mens Gymnastic team was able to eek out a bronze even though they were huge underdogs because they ran out of ham (I must confess I don’t follow gymnastics so I have no idea why their lack of coldcuts would have that effect).

The U.S. is leading the overall medal count, all is right with the world, and somehow I am actually into the Olympics.

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