My 3 year old is in gymnastics, my 5 year old was in gymnastics, so we watch some of it. I usually don't watch but like Lemur, i have a wife, she has a vagina, so she controls the remote. I think its been pretty good so far but I will open my veins the next time I hear Phelp's name!!! That dude pisses me of. He's up there with his team recieving his last medal and chatting and laughing while the National Anthem was playing. POS. For the love of God, the other teams showed more reverance (or it could have been a temperary steroid induced coma). We watched the ladies gymnastics last night and watched one gal with a horse neck (someone check that leatard) total kill the team's chance to win. The again, those little Chinese gals (16 years old? shoot, one gal looked like Dora the explorer in the sun shining in her eyes) kicked ass. I guess they figured they better do good or else.

The saddest part in this whole thing are the folks that don't make it. I was listening to NPR (god help me) the other day and they intervued some Chinese chick that was in her late 20's. She had been training all her life to be a long distance runner by the Chinese Government. She was also in the Chinese Army and was given the choice of training or continueing a more militarily structured life. Well, now she is completely bed-ridden and unable to walk. She lives with her mother. She basically trained so much that she ruined her legs. It was sad because the mother, in front of her daughter, basically called her a waste and a shame to the family. The reporter said there are thousands of stories like this. So it says a lot that so many lives are ruined just for a few days of "glory" on the world stage. Needless to say, my daughter only goes once a week and when we were approached to have her go twice a week in a more intensive program (she's real little for her age and strong) we declined.

There are some good aspects of the Olympics but unfortunately its so watered down with stories like this and the fact that there are just too many sports cramed into it. I'll watch parts of it but not a lot.

One last thing... DemonArchangel, if you're such a happy little commie and have parents living it up as oppressors of the people, why do you live in the US? You should live in your little Utopia that your folks and others like them killed, maimed, and tortured so much for.