Monday, August 11, 2008

The Olympics

I'm not sure why, but I can't stop watching them. I'm not sure if it's a twisted sense of national pride or to see if we can actually win the coveted gold medal in obscure sports that people train for 4 years to compete in. Whatever it is, it keeps me intrigued and I keep watching.

I also love it when the announcers have to cover an athlete that has never had a life threatening injury, doesn't have a relative that recently died, was not raised by bears, is not from the inner city, was not raised be a single parent that worked 3 jobs to keep them in training, that sort of thing. They have to struggle to find something to talk about that sounds inspiring.

I also watch the Canadian broadcast of the Olympics, it's nice to get a different spin on the games from another country. On a side note, I also like to watch the BBC news to get additional views on world events, maybe I'll post on that another time.

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