August 20, 2008
Beijing olympic you glad...
So this is the olympics. A proud tradition of athletes pushing themselves to the highest degree of physical demand with the entire world looking on...with cheerleaders in shorts and midriff showing?
Olympic cheerleaders.
Do we really need to have cheerleaders for the olympics? Personally I love cheerleaders but isn't jennie finch, guo jingjing and the polish women's volleyball team good enough to look at? The eye candy are very popular at beach volley ball because apparently half naked well toned athletes jumping around was just not enough. The one time China decides emulate the US, it has to be the shallow vapidness of entertainment rather than say, maybe human or environmental rights. Great.
Yang Peiyi
C'mon man, she's only 7 years old. Everyone is still cute at that age even with jacked up teeth. She sang your damn song so put her up on stage. She said it was an honor to have her voice heard by the people. Yea, what the hell is she going to say? And the government must have her on lockdown. If you image google her name, she doesn't show up til page 2 and its the same generic picture that everyone has.
Bad sportsmanship
Its great when obnoxious athletes get their ass handed to them. American pole vaulter jenn stuczynski said she wanted to "kick some russian butt". Err, you know that russian pole vaulter, yelena isinbayeva actually understands english. Isinbayeva responded to after winning the gold, "i just wanted to prove who is the best...and now she knows it". Ohh, burn!
Ties
There are no ties in gymnastics. American and chinese gymnast, nastia liukin and he kexin received identical scores on the uneven bars but liukin lost due to some odd tiebreaking system. The average olympics eliminate the dual gold medals back in 2000 - I suppose they didn't want to get confused with the special olympics where everyone gets a medal.
Shawn Johnson
The 16 year old american gnome gymnast seem genuinely happy to get silver medals unlike the swedish wrestler who intentionally dropped his bronze medal in the middle of the awards ceremony and walked off because he wanted the gold. Also he blamed the cheating judges.
And what happend to the mcdonalds olympic game where you use to get coupons and win food depending on what sport you picked. Did they do away with that? I remember always getting a disproportionate amount of some obscure sport like air pistol or badminton where usa always lost.
Posted by yumyumcha at August 20, 2008 10:53 AM