The Olympics are soon over.  Update commencing…

USA and China are finally separating in the medal count. Although China has an overwhelming edge over the Americans in Gold medals, the US has the overall total in their favor.  China has improved so much from the Olympics prior.  It’s obvious that their strategy was to concentrate on the least popular sports (with the exception of Gymnastics) and try to take the Gold in those categories.  One problem though, there are 81 gold medals given in Swimming and Track and Field combined.  If China’s goal was to defeat the US in the medal count, then they had to dump some time into the most popular and most Gold-pungent events in the Olympics.  A good analogy would be like a Presidential Candidate not campaigning in California and New York. Continue Reading »

Now that we are in our second full week of healthy athletic competition, its time for another update.

Medal Count (Top 5):

USA - 25 Golds, 25 Silvers, 26 Bronzes = 76 Total

China - 40 Golds, 14 Silvers, 17 Bronzes = 71 Total

Russia - 9 Golds, 13 Silvers, 17 Bronzes = 39 Total

Australia - 11 Golds, 11 Silvers, 12 Bronzes = 34 Total

Great Britain - 14 Golds, 7 Silvers, 8 Bronzes = 29 Total

Notes:

The women’s gymnastics all-around event finished as U.S. taking Gold (Nastia Luikin) and Silver (Shawn Johnson) - Prooving once again that sweatshop working kids just can’t jump into the gym and expect a gold medal in their future.

The U.S. Wrestler, Henry Cejudo, beats Japan’s Tomohiro Matsunaga for the gold - securing the another consecutive gold medal for the U.S. in a freestyle event in the last 9 Olympics.  Prooving once again that just because you’re good at math, doesn’t mean you can calculate your way out of an Mexican-American Sleeper Hold. 

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh advance to the Gold medal match, sweeping teams in the Semi-Finals.  This is their 107th consecutive victory over any beach volleyball duo.  They play top-seeded Tian Jia and Wang Jie.  No anecdote here, I’m waiting the outcome. 

The Redeem Team absolutely crushes the German team 106-57, and are just 3 wins away from the Gold.  They even jumped to a 20-3 lead at one point in the first quarter.  Prooving once again that once Hitler died, so did Germany’s basketball dreams (both thanks to the Americans)

GO USA!!!!

US gymnast and beloved cutie pie Alicia Sacramone punches some guy.   We all know this girl is a fighter, seeing her battle back from a disappointing experience in Athens.  (I’m not exactly sure what I’m talking about, because I didn’t know who Alicia Sacramone was until a few days ago…but I hear she has battled back from something, sometime. BUT, I do know she is a cutie pie.)

In reading some of the comments on YouTube, apparently this duder was one of Alicia’s friends who egged her on…and she responded…with a sweet left hook…to the jaw…dropping said egger.

If I may include some commentary on Sacramone’s Olympic performance and what not…

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China is doing a fantastic job putting on these games.  I don’t care if they are Communist.  I don’t care if they won’t free Tibet.  And I don’t care if they don’t like Joey Cheek, although I never met the guy, Prez G-dub says he’s a good man.  Kudos to China for putting on a great spectacle. 

Also, what really surprises me is the turnaround.  China has never contended for medals in the past, and all of a sudden they are teetering with USA in the top spot of the medal count chart.   Talk about home pride.  But USA fans should not worry.  The Track and Feild competitions start on day 7.  Enlightened by the French swimmer, Alain Bernard,  I feel obligated to say: ”The American’s are going to smash them” and “I hate Frenchies”

Here’s your update:

Medal Count (Top 5):

China - 22 Golds, 7 Silvers, 5 Bronzes = 34 Total

USA - 10 Golds, 9 Silvers, 14 Bronzes = 33 Total

South Korea - 6 Golds, 7 Silvers, 3 Bronzes = 16 Total

Australia - 5 Golds, 4 Silvers, 7 Bronzes = 16 Total

Frenchies - 2 Golds, 7 Silvers, 6 Bronzes = 15 Total

Notes:

Michael Phelps continues to woo “Phelps Phans” all over the globe.  He now has the most gold medals of any Olympic athlete of all time, AND he has broken the world record in every single medal race he has swum. 

Kosuke Kitajima of Japan is the best Breast Stroker in the world.  I’m jealous because I long dreamed of having that title.

The USA men’s gymnastics team surprisingly took the Bronze in the Team Final.  And my USA girls took Silver (Once the Chinese girl’s ages are revealed, that might change to gold).  Alicia Sacramone: I don’t care if she did fall on the beam and floor exercise, she’s still the best looking girl in the Olympics.  Okay, second behind Jennie Finch. 

GO USA!!!!

After a fantastic, glorious, terrorist-free, expensive ($300M!) opening ceremony on Friday night, August 8, 2008 – The 29^th Olympic games are under way.

I was literally glued to the television set like they were showing reruns of Saved by the Bell. However, my TV was not showing Zack and Kelly slow dancing outside of the costume ball, but rather Michael Phelps breaking world records, Dana Torres showing she can swim with the much more hip and younger girls, and Shawn Johnson delivering a crisp, mistake-free routine (unlike her teammates).

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2008 Olympics

Just a friendly reminder… You can get your 2008 Summer Olympics updates from SurplusThoughts.com starting on 8/08/08. 

Basically, the criteria that will be shared will be gold medal winners, schedule of events, medal counts, etc. etc.  If you have any more suggestions, please leave a comment to this post.  In the mean time, strap on your red, white, and blue jumpsuit.  Do some stretching and calisthenics.  And put on your USA game face.  The OLYMPICS are just around the corner. 

Uploaded are excel spreadsheets containing all of the vital information.  Comment if you have a problem with the formatting.