The Harry Potter Husband Test & Olympics

[Carol]

Potioncat:
> It seems every time I turn to the Olympics, it's swimming. It's as
if there aren't any other sports! (Just coincidence, I know.)
> 
> I did a lot of grumbling about the women's beach volleyball cough!
> uniforms!cough. <snip> 

> We've watched gymnastics because my son does Special Olympics 
gymnastics. One of the Americans fell off the balance beam,and also
made a mistake in the floor exercise. We were both angry at the
network for showing every possible view of the falls, in every
possible special effect over and over. Then in zooming in to her face
for as long as possible every time they could as she watched her team
mates.
>
Carol responds:

I think that most of the swimming competition is over with. Michael
Phelps has finished, at least. NBC showed synchronized diving (which
is fun to watch) in the middle of the week. More diving events are
scheduled for this week, so you haven't missed it.

Right now, track and field is the big thing, but they're also showing
rowing and equestrian events. a number of woemn in the marathon also
wore bikini-style "uniforms" (though some still wore what looked like
boys' PE uniforms from when I was in school). Maybe the more
conservative countries avoid the sexy outfits, or maybe some of the
older women avoid them. OTOH, the winner of the marathon by a very
long distance (a whole minute ahead of the others, I think, which is
quite a lead in a 26-mile race) was a 38-year-old Romanian woman with
a teenage son, yet she wore one of those outfits. By the end of the
race, she was showing her age, but for most of the run, she looked
quite good despite the skimpy "uniform." As for beach volleyball, I
still don't consider it an Olympic sport.

I felt very sorry for Alicia Scaramone with those replays you
entioned, not only of her falls, especially off the balance beam (a
spectacular mount that went completely wrong) but also of her
disappointed, angry face. they should leave the poor girl alone. It
was even worse with Hiroyuki Tomita, the Japanese gymnast who fell off
the rings and then fell on the landing of his vault. I think he must
have been severely injured when he fell from the rings and didn't even
have time to recover. I don't know what happened to him after that.

I still like gymnastics, though, and I really hope not to see any more
falls in this Olympics!

Carol, looking forward to tonight's vault competition