Clearly, I have not been following the Games, save for a few things that simply could not have escaped my attention. One being Michael Phelps, the first Olympic swimmer to win eight gold medals, and Usain Bolt, who seems to be going down the evolutionary path which will eventually lead to The Flash.
Maybe if he's not dead by the time I start working, I can get him to donate some of his DNA.
And of course, our own women's table-tennis team. Of which the star players were, ironically, from China. Still, it doesn't really matter where they come from, as long as they've got our flag on their T-shirts.
I can probably assume that the closing ceremony was as spectacular as the opening ceremony(which I did not watch) and that everyone was pretty happy and all. Now we can sit back for a couple of years and wait for the Winter Olympics to begin.
China has received quite a lot of flak this round, first with the air pollution problem, then with the faked bits of the opening ceremony. Their gymnasts have also been accused of being underage, and many people have been crying foul about that. For a good reason, too. Younger gymnasts, supposedly have an advantage due to their smaller stature and greater flexibility. I don't know how much of that is true, seeing as that I am neither a gymnast nor a physiologist . But even if it did give them an advantage, it probably wasn't the best idea to put underage competitors into the Olympics.
Well, I don't know whether their age has been verified or not yet. Neither does it really matter to me.
Although I would like to point out how annoying people who discuss this subject can get. People on the side of "No, underage competitors should definitely not be allowed" constantly get jabbed at with "You're just sore because your country lost to a few little girls". Oh well, it's the Internet, I guess. People are going to be idiots. Even more so now that they have anonymity.
Which kinda makes me a little wary of what I am going to do when I start playing Diablo 3. Initially, I hoped that the morons who played Diablo 2 would be all grown up and mature by now. From the state of the forums, however, it is clear that they are not.
Anyway, according to some sources, pistol duelling was once an Olympic sport! You know, the kind where people say "I challenge you to a duel!" and then they meet in some open field at sunrise on the next morning. They would stand back to back, take ten paces, pirouette, and then fire like a madman.
Of course, in the past, Olympic pistol duelling was done with target dummies rather than real people. I suppose they hadn't invented paintball at the time. Wouldn't it be cool if the Duelling Pistols returned as a sport? I might actually be interested in watching it.
-Joe