Olympic Recap
The Olympics are finally over and so much credit can be given to the host country, China. They are exceptional hosts and deserve all the thanks in the world. I wish them good luck in going forward…Just don’t engage a war the U.S. with your 200 million standing army, please.
Alright, now that the blessings and sappy stuff is out of the way… lets get the recap.
There were many winners in the 29th Olympics games…
There were also many losers in the 29th Olympic games…
Here’s a parallel comparison…
Winner: Michael Phelps. Needless to say, after grabbing eight gold medals along with the top spots on the record chart. He has now a place on the small list of “Greatest Olympians” – arguably could be at the very top of the list.
Loser(s): Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Philippines. With a combined population of 413,992,394 people, not one of those losers could produce a single medal.
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Winner: Kobe Bryant and the rest of the U.S. Redemption Squad. Kobe was like Neil Diamond to the Chinese people. Everywhere he went, he had to fight his way through crowds. Yao Ming never got that kind of attention in is home country. The U.S. “Redeem Team” was expected to win. I expected them to win.
Loser: Liu Xiang, the Chinese hurdler hero. He was another athlete that was expected to win. But instead, he pulled out of preliminaries due to an injury. Normally, I would be sympathetic to blowing your countrymen’s hopes of taking the gold medal in your home nation. But it’s okay. He still has the gold medal in the world championships a year ago and one from Athens as well. Ice and elevate, Liu.
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Winner: Ara Abrahamian, Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. Won the Silver medal in his weight class in 2004 and was steam-rolling his way to Gold in Beijing. But after a controversial judgment call in the semi-final, he lost and he was not going to compete in the Gold medal match. He protested, with good reason (even some of the non-active FILA officials defended his case), but was denied. He convincingly won his Bronze medal match. At the ceremony he took off his medal, threw it down, and then stormed off. I’m a big advocate of sportsmanship, but Ara inspired every Joe “take-this-job-and-shove-it” Lunchpale in this pissed-off world. That’s commendable in my eyes. Kind of like when the 1972 U.S. basketball team in Munich should have beat the Soviets in the Gold medal match, but the Soviets were given 3 chances to score 2 game-taking points due to “scorer’s bench commotion”. The U.S. still refuses to take Silver medal in that Olympics, which they should NEVER. I still don’t have any respect for the, now dead, secretary general of FIBA at the time, William Jones for ordering the clock to be reset to 3 seconds. He said later, “The Americans have to learn how to lose, even when they think they are right.” Well, my dead friend, you have to learn how to be fair. If given the chance, I would spit on your grave. (Is that too harsh?)
Loser: Angel Matos, Cuban Taekwondo athlete. The complete other side of sportsmanship opposite of Abrahamian’s display of “quiet and courageous outrage” was portrayed by this huffy puffy idiot. Matos and his coach were banned for life after losing the bronze medal on a disqualification. “For what?” you might ask. He deliberately kicked the official right in the mouth when it happened. Dropping a medal is one thing… dropping a human is another. Take a chill pill, Angel.
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Winner: Alicia Sacramone, U.S. cutie-pie gymnast. You might remember her fall on the balance beam in the team final, or her back-to-the-mat landing on the floor exercise. She even failed to produce a medal on her specialty vault apparatus (even though she was cheated out of one – since when did landing on your knees qualifies as a better as a clean foot dismount?). Why is she a winner? She became one of the most searched athletes in the Olympics. When you have a left hook like that, how could you NOT be a winner ? (Thank you Jerk for the research!)
Loser: U.S. Women’s Softball. COME ON!!!! HOW COULD YOU LOSE TO JAPAN???!!!
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Winner: Usain Bolt. The guy is untouchable. Nuff said.
Loser: Everyone else that ran against Bolt. You can’t beat that Rasta-Boy, especially you, Tyson Gay. The U.S. expected big things from you.
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Winner: China. I know that you didn’t win every Gold medal like you hoped, but you guys improved greatly. Great hospitality (so I hear), and great spectacle.
Loser: Tibet. After all of those protests and international attention, you are still occupied by China. Hey, wait a second, doesn’t that make you winners?
That concludes the Olympics… GO USA!!!
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Here are the final results: 2008 Olympics
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