Olympics

[likethebeer]

From tonight, there are a few things I'll remember. The Greek woman who won the 400 meter hurtle race. Surrounded by a stadium mostly filled w/Greeks, running her best time ever.

The US guy who won bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling. He'd won teh gold in the 2000 Olympics, had a heartbreaking story, yada yada (actually, he almost died), but was coming back and said that no matter what, that the medal contention game would be his. When he won the bronze, he went to the mat and took off his shoes. There's this tradition (so the announcers tell me) that a retiring wrestler takes off their shoes and puts them into the center of the ring. So he did that, w/the cameras on, and there's this huge guy, just sobbing.

Comments

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

I think he's the guy from Dayton, Wyoming. DO you remeber how he almost died?

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

That's right he was lost in the Big Horn Mountains and he's from Afton. Close to Dayton

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

He was snowmobiling and he broke through the ice. He spent something like 18 hours out in the snow. When they got him into the hospital, his body temp was 80 degrees.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

I hate those "heartbreaking" stories.

"She had a good life in America, until tragedy struck. Both of her parents were killed in a car accident and she was forced to go back to Cuba, where she was so poor, she often didn't have shoes on her feet.."

Already, she is a hero.

I *hate* those stories.

I'm waiting for Greece to lose something big so I can use this image:

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

They had a good satirical piece yesterday on the radio show, On Point. These TV producers are coming up w/heartbreaking stories for every athelete, and they're always doing it for some member of their family or a little boy whose life they saved, or their all poor.

This kind of stuff has been mercefully brief this time around, fortunately. I saw the wrestler above who fell through the ice & almost died, and the Aussie girl in the triatholon who was doing it for her brother (who was also a triathelete). They didn't mention when her brother died, but at one point, after hearing this woman say for about the 3rd time in as many minutes that she always thinks about her brother, he's always there, in her mind, etc. I said to the tv, "Girl, get.some.therapy. Yeah, your brother died and that totally sucks, but I think you need to start to get over this." Yeah, so then she wins the silver medal and that makes her a Big Loser b/c she Failed Her Dead Brother.

[sacramentalist.livejournal.com]

In Woody Allen's "Radio Days". They do a heartbreaking story about a baseball pitcher who "Had heart". One tragedy after another befalls this guy, until he's bitching with one arm, and one leg, and completely blind.

To keep morale up at work, I drew a picture of Li'l Brudder on the white board. He's in the corner opposite Strngbad, and Timmy from South Park

[likethebeer.livejournal.com]

Oh, I remember that from Radio Days. It's good to know this isn't an 80s phenomenon.

Li'l Brudder--you might lose employees, as they realize there's so much more to life. I feel for Homestarrunner.