I know I should stop but it's too much to resist

Once every four years, people care about sports they usually don't care about. Who can name a celebrity weight lifter? (I did see the featured blog about the female weight lifter and her weight lifter husband, but for that, who?) Are there any well known water polo players in the US? (I like mentioning it because my wife loves water polo.) Olympic trampolining? What? I think London is introducing Olympic Spelling Bee (I don't know how the different languages will work, but they are in the planning stages and they are going to allow ESPN to show it.)
But you know what? I can't get enough of the Olympics right now. Yes, I got sucked in. I am staying up until midnight watching like a junkie. Michael Phelps is amazing but he really isn't the story of the Olympics for me right now. Right now, it's about the Jamaican sprinter Bolt. Are you kidding me? He pulled up with 15 meters (that's the real bad thing about the Olympics -- the rest of the world uses that logical system instead of getting on the American bandwagon and using the real measurement system, the English system -- which England doesn't even use anymore) and still won by 5 meters while pounding his chest and basically doing the Deon Sanders high step towards the endzone. If he would have ran all the way through, I don't think anyone would be breaking the world record for decades. He would have had around a 9.50. That's unreal. As the announcer said, they were entering video game times -- although I don't think I ever got a 9.69 even with the comb trick. This kid is 21. If he doesn't truly run something all the way through, we may never know truly how good he is. What was funnier was after the race, the interviewer asked what he would get if he ran all the way through and the response was, "I don't care about that. I just wanted to win." or something close to that. He made it look easy -- so much so that it kind of blows out the idea that you have to try as hard as you can to do your best. Everyone else looked like they were about to bust an artery while he was showboating. Of course, this doesn't take into account the years of training he has done to make this moment look easy.
Just think about this: how many relay teammates can you name for Mark Spitz? In the same way, the swimmers who were a major part of Michael Phelps' ability to win 8 medals will be the nameless other swimmers who will be a question on Jeopardy in 20 years. Phelps has said the right things about teammates and giving them praise, but it won't help the other 4/5 of them be remembered. The best thing they will have is a gold medal they will show their grandkids and will say, I won this on a relay team with Michael Phelps. And the kids will say, "Who?"
Ok, time to go to work. I guess it's a good thing I don't have MSNBC, CNBC, QNBCWERS, and QWERTNBCY so that Olympics can be on 24/7. Although we have the new D-TV converter for the antenna and it gets amazing reception. If I would have known how good it was, we would have got it months ago (and the kids like that we have 14 PBS channels and Qubo.)
Out.