Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Olympic holdover post

They’ve been over for a while now, but I had this hanging around and it can apply to any sporting event.  A commentator on NBC said that the reason for the tension on the athlete’s face was because there were four women competing for three medals.  That time it was women’s pole vault but the same sort of thing was said more than once.

Can anyone tell me if there has ever been an event where there weren’t more people competing than there were medals?  Isn’t this always the case?  These people are trying to win – or at least do their best if they know they can’t win.  It’s the freaking Olympics in a gigantic stadium full of people from all over the world and so many cameras you practically trip over them and there are ten things happening at once.  Don’t you think that might be a reason why people are tense?

I mean really, have there ever been track events with only three people competing?

Except for that time Bill Cosby did the hammer throw.  So, besides that time.

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