Olympics
I thought I’d switch things up for once and write about something not-so-scary. At least not for the viewers.
Before this year, I thought the Olympics were super boring. I hated them and didn’t understand how anyone could possibly be entertained by them. I don’t know what changed my mind, maybe because I’m older now or they had a good marketing campaign or there were some well-publicized athletes. Whatever it was, I couldn’t get enough of the Olympics. For me, huge sports competitions like this are both fascinating and frightening. I can’t imagine getting all the way to the games, representing yourself and your country and then blowing it all because you had a bad dive or you weren’t quite as fast as usual. How do you recover from something like that? Every time someone lost, I felt so bad for them that I couldn’t even watch anymore. Like when that thirty year old female diver messed up really bad on her first or second dive because her legs weren’t straight enough. This was her last meet. She was expected to win or at least be in the top three. She was dead last. I felt so bad for her, she was crying at the end and stuff. I wanted to cry. These people devote their whole lives to these sports, and while I normally hate sports, I can’t help but admire their persistence and devotion. But how awful that must be to train your whole life just for this one day and then it’s gone in just a second. What’s left in life? That’s pretty depressing, so I guess the Olympics are good for promoting teamwork, sportsmanship, and bringing together the world. But for those individual athletes who mess up, it must suck.
Plus all the other athletes have to put up with everyone talking about Michael Phelps all the time. I bet the other parents of the swimmers say, “Why can’t you be more like Michael Phelps?� He’s amazing, but that would just suck to be up against him or to be even on his team. Constant comparisons, I guarantee it.
And the whole China thing was big too. It was amazing that they took out that whole chunk of Beijing just to host the Olympic games. I think overall though, it’s good to promote these sportsmanlike ideals and world togetherness. I hope the next Olympics is as dramatic and epic as this one. And what am I supposed to watch for the next four years?