Some Last Pre-Closing Ceremony Things
- Women's basketball. Gold medal. Thought so.
- Antigone guestposting at feministe says that the success of American women in the Olympics is proof positive that Title IX is working.
- The men's basketball team lost their semifinal to Argentina. Wish I could say I felt badly about it. At least they won the bronze. Sheesh.
- Not to beat a dead horse, but I can't fucking believe I watched synchronized fucking swimming in fucking primetime and NBC did not air one moment of women's basketball or softball and only the gold medal game for soccer.
- If the colors in Italy's flag are red, white, and green, why are all their uniforms blue?
- Abby Wambach: so gay. Brianna Scurry: pings hard, but no confirmation.
- Seeing pictures of the winner of Minnesota's Biggest Boar, I was reminded of the heavyweight wrestlers. I can see where the term "hung like a bull" comes from. Also, not a fan of watching the male sprinters come... um... bouncing down the track. Especially in slo-mo.
- I can't get enough on the stories of the dominance of the American women's teams in softball, soccer, and basketball. But, you know, nice of NBC to keep bringing it up when they didn't show any of the competition to the majority of the national audience. But anyway, team sports is where it's at, baby. I can see the appeal of personal achievement in individual sports, but I think it's not as fun unless you've got people to share it with.
- I also can't get enough of that image of Misty May and Kerri Walsh on the medal stand, with Kerri's hand on Misty's shoulder and a huge grin on her face.
- I read somewhere somebody said that gymnastics is basically the figure skating of the summer games. And they are so right.
- I swear, most of the (black) track winners talked about god in their post-race interview or did some kind of praying thing on the track after they won. I didn't see anybody in any other sport do that.
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