Beijing Olympics

They say China needed the Olympics to show the world what they have.

I say the USA needed it to remind us what we have always had!!

I hate to cast a shadow on such glory but we had dinner with good friends tonight and their daughter's boyfriend knows Michael Phelps and says he's an arrogant SOB who is very full of himself. His athletic prowess knows no bounds and apparently neither does his ego.

I don't honestly know how it could be otherwise given the media attention Olympic atheletes receive. They're fawned upon 24/7 so I can't imagine anyone Michael's age in his same situation, with his same talent, could not have a stuffed head. If he's the great guy he appears to be, he'll calm down and be his regular self when it's all over. His regular friends back home hope so.

I bet even the ones that do poorly in such an event have a stuffed head. .Maybe he'll settle down after all the talk shows and visits to the White House and whatever else.How much is speedo paying him if he goes 8 for 8?
Anyway I'm pulling for him.

I asked my husband the exact same thing.

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I choose to take the tidbit that Mermy has shared about Michael Phelps with a grain of salt. I am going to let his record and how he comes across in interviews ( fabulously, I think) speak for him. Plus, he always looks for his mom in the stands. Lord knows I have become cynical, but third hand info doesn't always cut it for me.

For someone who is supposedly completely full of himself, Phelps does not come off that way at ALL in interviews - and I have pretty low tolerance for that sort of thing.

The men's gymnasts (and almost every basketball and football player in the world) need to take some decorum lessons from him IMO.

not to belittle their accomplishment by any means, a bronze is wonderful - but.....why was the gymnastics team so arrogant? they were danged lucky to get that bronze from what i've read in the paper about the team being put together at the last minute, etc.

"That's how you do it, baby!"

Yeah, yeah, yeah...We heard you the first five times you said it. A little humility would have been nice. Some of them seem to go from being very appreciative of the effort that the team was putting out to arrogance at light speed. Enjoy your bronze because I don't think any of them placed higher than 4th in any element...

i think there's a fine line between being spirited winners and being arrogant. i think a part of all sports programs should be teaching people to be gracious winners as well as gracious losers

I think that is why they were so excited to get the bronze. No one including them though they would end up in the top 3 .So winning the bronze was great for them. I was pulling for them to win the silver.
I realize the boy from Texas ws a bit lould,but think about all the long hours and work getting to that point. He was like his dad "walking in space"

USA Soccer crashes out.........ugh.

2-1 to Nigeria. 3 minutes into the match, one of our guys gets red-carded. Hard enough with 11, even more difficult with 10.

We needed a win or a tie.

Hats off to the 36+ Year Old Brian McBride, the oldest soccer player at the Olympics, for putting in his final service on behalf of Our Country. Wish we could have seen more of him with an advance to the quarterfinals.

Thank you for your representation and showing the world that age can sometimes just be state of mind.

I heard that the black tape (tattoo gone wrong, lol..I thought the same thing) was because she had recently had shoulder surgery. What really bothered me was when I heard that the little girl who sang in the opening ceremony was lip syncing for the original 7 year old girl who actually was chosen for the event. She was replaced because she was "too ugly and had buck teeth"..she was not " perfect enough"