#168 - olympics day #3

quick post because after i got home from mike's wedding i had to fast-forward through 5-hours of dvr-ed olympics because i wanted to know what happened before i read the paper the next day... then women's volleyball was on so i had to watch that and so i went to sleep very late, yadda yadda yadda... i'm very tired today.

haha, well, no "yadda yadda yadda," but i couldn't pass up the chance to use it. although i realize that i can't put in stress emphasis marks whilst typing so you probably wouldn't get the phrasing that george used when he said that on seinfeld... still.

anyway, quick thoughts on day 3 of the olympics:

swimming - another reason why i don't like swimming... granted, people with a greater height advantage will most often have an edge in any athletic activity, but when gold medals are decided by tenths of a second (as in swimming), the difference between 5'10" and 6'3" is so drastic. of course michael phelps is gonna have a huge advantage in swimming, he's like half the length of the pool already!

volleyball - US women lost in straights to cuba... well, cuba destroyed them. wow. their serving is insane. but, it's still pool play so US is not out of it. and kim willoughby started again (which is pretty remarkable considering she just joined the team this year), didn't play that well, but none of the US women played very well so... on to the next game.

gymnastics - even though gymnastics is a bit creepy (all that face glitter), it's kind of exciting that the two top US women are both gold medal favorites. as for the routines, i like watching the uneven bars (all that swinging is crazy) and the balance beam (cause that's so tension-filled). but why can't the women do six events like the men do? weak. and lame. and why don't the chinese just win everything outright? i mean, look at all those crazy chinese street gymnasts and contortionists, they should have the monopoly on gymnastics right?

that's all i remember from today...