Olympic Thoughts

Another Olympics in the books. This one had its ups and downs. Got off to a rough start with the death of a luge athlete. Had some weather issues and just never seemed to hit stride. I enjoyed the competition, it was nice to see the good ole U S of A kick some butt. Not to boast but if you add Olympics won during the 2008 Summer games and 2010 Winter games, America took home 147 medals (45 G, 53 S, and 49 B). Next closest was China with 111 and then Russia with 87. China did lead with most golds at 56.


My random thoughts:



1) If there is no snow on the ground in the host City then it's hard to think these are the "Winter" Olympics.

2) The beauty of the Winter Olympics is that it is usually some small unknown city...I mean can you tell me where Sochi, 2014 Olympics site, is (on the Black Sea if you should know)?

3) Why doesn't USA do better in Biathlon? Come on, in our country anything related to guns, we should kick butt...

4) Olympic ice dancers...so are they lovers? Why were all the Americans from Univ of Michigan?

5) Is it a sport if the athletes are listening to their iPods when competing?

6) I am sorry but Vonn's Olympics was just a bad reality show...

7) Does Ohno's mom exist?

8) What did Olympic athletes do before the existence of spandex...yikes everyone wheres spandex!

9) Learn something new...there are two types of cross country skiing...conventional and free. Conventional looks hard!

10) What is it with gymnastics and skating? It seems to be a true super power your country to legitimize itself has to be dominant in these events...

11) Good to see that with the help of a NASCAR guy we have the best bobsleds in the world...about time NASCAR gives us something useful

12) Whatever did skiers do before they started painting the course?

13) Ski and snowboard cross were pretty cool new sports.

14) Olympic ice dancing has been around since 1976 @$&#, really?

15) Is your event an Athletic event when one of your athletes competes pregnant?

16) Kudos to Canada for winning the most Gold...you are a gracious host!

17) Canada is just glad they won gold in hockey and curling!

18) So in 2018 will they be talking about the fifth instead of the quad jump...something to be said about men's ice skating...

19) Ski jumping...snore

20) And last but not least...Collinsworth is a football player...he should stick with football commentary not the Olympics!