gymnastics venting. you were forewarned.

(In case you haven’t seen my previous sports ranting posts.. i rant. you have been forewarned.)

So eliminating the fact that there’s ridiculously strong evidence that China cheated by having a team of young’uns that are more flexible and..well that makes things easier!

Step One: Americans win silver in the team competition. Yes, Alicia Sacramone screwed things up. So that silver medal was a tad unsatifactory. But at least the fault was ours.

Step Two: Yes. Shawn and Nastia went one-two. INCREDIBLE. First time ever I think?

Step Three: Vault Finals. Um, knees mean eight tenths of a point deduction.. not being square..more deduction, uneven hands on vault MORE DEDUCTION. yet who won the bronze? Nope. Not Alicia, who had a hop. ONE HOP.

Step Four: Floor Finals: Shawn Johsnon takes lead. Keeps the lead. The very last gymnast swipes the gold.

Step Five: Uneven Bars Finals. Nastia’s a sure fire win correct? So the little Chinese girl went and got a great score. Then Nastia went and SHOULD HAVE blown the judges away. And got the same score. So then there’s this weird “tie breaker” thing right? I learned in elementary school that tie breaker means you redo, and then whoever wins that, wins. Apparently not. So Nastia walks away with silver. And got the same score as the gold medalist who looks like she’s twelve.

Step Six: Beam. Chung Fei gets a 15.9 something. What?! And then again, Shawn has sights on the gold, with one gymnast to go. But she WINS! And the Americans go one-two again.

I’m so glad it ended on a good note. Otherwise I was close to running out to KCI and hopping on a plane to Beijing to give the IOC a piece of my mind. If you hadn’t noticed, sports can get me going.

i love my olympics.

So most of the people that have hung out with me since August 8th think I’m nuts. I’m obsessed.

They’re probably right.

The look of my DVR list shows what they’ve been talking about. Obviously I can’t sit in front of my television all day long, so the list is dominated by XXIX Summer Olympics.

I love it all. I’ll watch almost anything (except I don’t particularly enjoy fencing or water polo). But then you just fast forward and watch the scoreboard. :].

Nothing beats watching America annihiliate the competition.

And nothing beats watching their faces while they’re doing it.

(and dreaming about being there. taking pictures like the ones above.)