[SamAdams76]

Whenever I want to find out who won gold medals, I have to look it up on Wikipedia or consult an Almanac of some sort.

This is because I do not remember stuff like that for very long. There are maybe three or four gold medal winners that I can think of from years past. Mark Spitz in 1972, U.S. hockey Team in 1980, Katrina Navritolova in 1976 and Mary Lou Retton doing that tumbling thing back around 1984. Oh yeah, and who can forget Tonya Harding "stealing" that figure skating medal from that stuck-up woman who married some rich guy and never said very much - Nancy something-or-other.

But that's about it for Olympic memories. All the rest, I have to look up.

And so it will be the same for this year's Olympics. I think I will always remember that swimming dude who got something like 12 gold medals and of course, those scantily clad women playing that beach volleyball thing. Don't remember if they got a gold medal or not but damn, they were pretty good.

So there you go. As far as Chinese athletes, I can't remember the name of a single one. They all pretty much look the same to me and all of them seem to have names that I can't pronounce anyhow.

So anyway, that's the Olympics so far as I'm concerned. Now it's back to watching re-runs of COPS and getting caught up on that Mad Men show that everybody keeps yapping about.

[editor-surveyor]

Excellent summation of the u-limpics.

[wafflehouse]

china probably doesnt care what you think. heck, im with you. i dont keep up with the olympics.
this is probably a pretty effective propaganda tool to beat the rest of the chinese folks with however. "see how superior communist china crushed the imperialist american a-holes"
its the lazy person's way of thinking. if you can best the greatest nation that has ever existed, it makes for an easy way to gloat about something.

[george76]

Lots of little emperors.