Buffalo Boy's Blog

Michael Phelps is so amazing. There are no words to describe his performance so far. So Im not going to try and come up with anymore adjectives all I am going to say is that I will be more shocked if when all is said and done if he doesn't accomplish his feat.

Rebbeca Soni shocked everyone by winning the womens 200 meter breast. She adds to a long list of American swimming medals and world records. She is one who will definitely be back in 2012 so keep an eye out for her.

I tried to stay up last night for the whole gymnastics but the eyes just got way too heavy. When I woke up to see that they took gold-silver in womens gymnastics my jaw dropped. China's goal was to win the medal count on their home soil, right now, they are not doing a very good job losing events that they are supposed to dominate. Thats what they get for cheating.

I am honestly looking forward to this weekend because all week I was focusing in on swimming and gymnastics (mostly swimming). What I like almost as much as swimming is seeing the sports that you wouldn't normally spend the time to watch like for instance, air rifle, rowing, beach volleyball, and I even caught myself watching and enjoying soccer.....I could get used to watching that I think more often.

The one sport I can't bring myself to watch is basketball, I am totally against the use of professionals and really the olympic hockey doesn't interest me for the same reasons. Baseball has done it right and they are not going to be back after this Olympics which I think is a shame and to have the Olympics potentially be in New York City in 2012 and not have America's past time would be outrageous. Baseball is the one summer team sport that should without question be an Olympic mainstay.

One thing I will say, watching the Olympics is emotional. It takes a lot out of you because I think at least for me, you realize 4 years of work go into this for these athletes and they leave themselves and all their energy in their respective events. I find myself as excited for Michael Phelps as I am sorry for the guy next to him who settled for silver but probably worked just as hard if not harder to be there. There are so many stories and so many great performances to see its almost overload. Again, thats what makes the Olympics so special and miles above all the other sporting events out there. 

I will be posting over the weekend but I will also be spending much of my time watching the rest of the swimming so if my posts are infrequent you know why, but stay tuned because I will be on from time to time updating and leaving my two cents......