Friday, August 22, 2008

Olympic updates

As I sit here watching the "Redeem Team" play (blowout 24-4!) Argentina, I am thankful the Olympics are only every four years. I am also glad that the Olympic year always falls on the same time as our Presidential races are heating up and that they are only every fours years too. (That's a subject for another time.)
I was up late last night watching both Men's Beach Volleyball (gold medal) and men's regular Volleyball (won Semi- final).I finally went to bed at about 2 o'clock.
The best thing I saw last night though was a report on girls gymnastics. It seems that the use of the underage girls by China may cost them some medals. I think this story is even sadder than some of the drug discoveries that always seem to come to light during the games. This is worse to me because a whole government is involved in the "AGEGATE" cover-up while the drug ones seem to be the wrong decisions of individual athletics. I hope the USA and other countries will continue to stay on this issue until the truth is brought out and China is stripped of all medals they have won by blatantly cheating. I will not be surprised though if China gets away with it!!

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