Well, maybe it's more of a low-grade Olympic Fever. I've actually never been that big on the Summer games, but I do end up watching a lot of the Winter stuff when that comes around. That said, I finally half-assedly rooted on Team USA w/ the wife last night while reading...Marvel's 'Captain America: Red, White & Blue' TPB actually...how fucking American am I?!
More so than w/ any of the actual events themselves, i'm absolutely enamored w/ the architecture of some of the facilities where they are taking place. Both the National Aquatics Center (AKA 'The Cube') and the National Stadium (AKA 'The Bird's Nest') are pretty inspiring in their design. Granted, the architects are Australian and Swiss, respectively...but they seem a perfect fit w/in the whole big, shiny Asian architectural aesthetic.
Just as, if not more, inspiring is the architecture of the Women's Beach Volleyball uniforms. To have to cover that much ground/range of movement, with only two athletes...while wearing what could be the equivalent of a few strategically-placed band-aids/dental floss...it truly gets a rise out of my 'Olympic Spirit'.
Just as, if not more, inspiring is the architecture of the Women's Beach Volleyball uniforms. To have to cover that much ground/range of movement, with only two athletes...while wearing what could be the equivalent of a few strategically-placed band-aids/dental floss...it truly gets a rise out of my 'Olympic Spirit'.
The sport has also produced one of the best Olympic photos EVER...
For real. It seems that Misty May-Treanor wanted the Pres to give her the traditional athletic butt pat, commonplace in sports as a way to say 'here's a gold star for doing something swell'...except it's on your ass versus a book report. Anyway, Dubya politely declined and backhanded her lower back. Jeez! Have you seen that butt? Now, i'd hardly take a bullet for the man, but i'd sign up for whatever Secret Service detail would put me in charge of stepping in to handle something like that on his behalf.
In all seriousness, both she and Kerri Walsh kicked some ass in the match I watched last night and seem like sweet, goofy chicks...who just happen to be Volleyball Super-Robots. Throw in Jason Lezak's killer surge in 4 X 100m a few nights back to keep the Phelps' medal-machine the story of the games and you really do have some interesting TV if anything.
A whole lot of drama leading up to these games, but (like my girl Mary J. says) it's nice to see it has risen above that...as it should. The whole concept of such a large-scale global consortium of folks throwing aside their political and personal agendas, even if just for a few weeks, is still pretty amazing to me.
The Olympics aren't (and never should have been) about Beijing...it's about the athletes, doing what they do, to bring us ALL a little more together. I think we can all certainly get behind that...
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I do wonder what Bush had going on in his mind. I wonder if he was thinking naughty thoughts, but decided he had better not touch her butt. He's got enough problems as it is.
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