I’m Scheduling My Move Around the Olympics

27 Aug 2004 By
  • The soccer team sends the 91ers — Mia Hamm, Brandi Chastain, Julie Foudy, Kristine Lilly, and Joy Fawcett — off with a gold medal. Abby Wambach scored the winning goal with a header in extra time. Woot! *sniffle*
  • The women’s basketball team squeaked by Russia to make it into the gold medal game. That was way too close for comfort. Tamika Catchings is too adorable. The little thingy she and Sue Bird did at the winery was cute. And I so wanted Lisa Leslie (or somebody) to dunk the ball.
  • Well, whaddaya know. After that inane conversation with Stephon Marbury during the women’s quarterfinal game, he went and scored a USA-record 31 points in the men’s quarterfinal. Spain’s head coach is a big ol’ sore loser (via Women’s Hoops Blog)
  • Half the fun of watching triathlons is watching the transitions from swimming to biking, and from biking to running. If they’ve got their feet out of their shoes, and they’re hopping off their bikes at full speed when they hit that red line, don’t they scrape the shit out of their feet?
  • Why are they re-airing the story on the Afghan women? Are they all out of stories?
  • Jayda Evans on NBC’s suckage. The network is withholding half the news! (via AOGB)
  • Kiwi medalists won’t be allowed to bring their olive wreaths into New Zealand. I guess I can see the point, but I think I’d be really upset if it were my olive wreath.
  • When I watch soccer goalies dive for the ball, I’m convinced they’re gonna go head first into the post every time.
  • Some of these Greeks have some serious noses.
  • The women’s 4×100 relay team — LaTasha Colander, Angela Williams, Lauryn Williams, and Marion Jones — smoked every team in their heat. They were 1.5 seconds ahead of the second place finisher. I can’t decide how I feel about Marion Jones. Is she a cheater? Did she get the shaft? I want to give her the benefit of the doubt, but her responses to the whole thing have been pretty sketchy.
  • Seriously, 4.5 hours of race walk coverage?
  • Apparently our local tv schedule doesn’t exactly follow what NBC has listed because this is Wayne Brady, not canoeing.
  • http://blue Brent

    If THAT isn’t dedication to the Games and athletics, I don’t know WHAT is!!!!

    Brent!

  • http://jenben.info/home.html JenBen

    I didn’t know Wayne Brady was on the Olympic canoeing team!

  • http://www.the-enigma.net/blog Enigma

    i realized a few days ago that msnbc was live. usa & cnbc show some live stuff, too. nbc is showing events i’ve seen on other channels.

  • http://www.crackmonkie.net Monkie

    Ok. Yeah, I’ll go with you on Catchings, but for sheer ability, Shannon “PeeWee” Johnson is insane. And am I the only one who thinks Swoops is useless? Something about her bugs me.

  • http://www.crackmonkie.net Monkie

    Oh… almost forgot about Tina Thompson. Her and Johnson should be MVPs if there were such a thing in the Olympics. Can’t wait to see what you think about the Gold Medal game.

  • http://www.swirlspice.com Erica

    Shannon Johnson was unbelievable. That girl is the definition of hustle. She was driving on and out-rebounding people with six or nine inches on her.

    And Dawn Staley had 14 points! 14! That’s a lot for her. When she scored two baskets in a row (and pretty-lookin’ ones, too), I was all, “Where did that come from?”

    Tina Thompson was so solid through the whole tournament. I’m not a big Sheryl Swoopes fan, either. I remember being really annoyed by her hair during the last Olympics.