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I’m sitting here watching the Olympics again, and I’m going to be honest I’m getting pretty tired of watching sports I don’t understand. I see gymnastics is on again, I wouldn’t say I’m watching that, but I think we are gonna win individual gold. Neato!

I think we are going to win Gold and Silver? Yet we lost the team one? That doesn’t make any sense at all. That’s like having Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in their primes and NOT winning any titles, that just didn’t happen man. So what is the moral here? The individual parts were greater than their sum.

Anyway on to sports that I actually think are neat, the sprints are starting up soon, and the Men’s basketball team beat the crap out of Greece (that was payback for us), but it really doesn’t mean anything if we don’t land the gold.

And how racist is Spain? Honestly, if they aren’t chanting terrible words at soccer players who aren’t white, they are making fun of the Chinese:

Let me be clear not all Spanish are racist, but some clearly are. And who actually thought taking that picture would be a good idea?

The Olympics are slowly starting to not make any sense at all!

In fact the only thing that makes sense is Phelps winning his 6th gold medal. 6 down 2 to go!

That’s all I got,

The Nooge

So what? You have other talents

Awesome. Take that China, keep your golds, we’ll take the chick (Alicia Sacramone) with the “golden” hook!

Yes!

Honestly, this video isn’t even that great, I don’t know why I posted it…Maybe because all of my favorite sports channels are talking about her falling and losing the gold. I’m not sure we “lost” the gold, the Chinese team was really good. Now if we did a little hand to hand combat with em…

GOLD!

The Nooge
The Nooge

The big story of the day? Phelps was able to land his 4th and 5th gold medals in swimming, keeping his race for 8 alive. And that’s all you can really ask for.

After Phelps landed his swimming gold we went on to Women’s Gymnastics. That guy who does the color on the Women’s and Men’s Gymnastics broadcasts just seems very angry all the time (It’s like he blamed that one girl who fell twice for everyone’s mistakes…that’s like blaming Dave for everything…well ok, Dave usually causes everything, that was a bad example). But the best part ever is the crazy guy in studio with Bob Costas…NBC Thank you for that, I don’t know where he’s from, but damnit, he’s my favorite guy with an accent since “The Swedish Chef” from the Muppets.

Yes!

Anywhoo on the actual event. I don’t know much about gymnastics but it looks like we are doing well, and it looks like the average age of the Chinese team is 12. I think the telling thing was when the Chinese team was standing in front of the US team and it was like they weren’t even there. It was crazy. And I didn’t know they take these kids from like 3 years old and throw them into some sort of training camp so they can win some Olympic medal…and then what? So clearly, the Chinese won the Gold, the U.S. grabbed the silver. What can you do?

There really isn’t anything wrong with a silver medal, 2 Golds from Phelps, and a Swedish Chef Video!!!

Still, cool Olympic events are coming up tonight/tomorrow morning so stay up late and enjoy em!!!

The Nooge

I could spend today talking about the great swimming events that have already happened on NBC, but I choose to go another direction. Yes, I’m talking about the former East German “woman” Olympian who had a sex change operation because of the steroids she was fed.

You Decide Which side is before and Which is after:

Here is the article: Woman says sex change is because of steriods…ewwwwww

Yeah…Nothing should get the women clean like that story. You have a gold medal, but guess what? Now you have a penis. I believe we call that a side effect…or…something like that.

Anywhoo, the US is currently doing really well in swimming, even grabbing medals in events we aren’t really sure we should be in. Great job out there.

Tomorrow night is the Women’s Gymnastics gold medal round. The US vs. China. Read my blog yesterday and you can see why I think China is cheating, and why the US has a super hot chick on their team. Here is a fun fact that I didn’t know, 20 almost 21 is considered really Old for the Olympics. No one tell Dave that his dream of being a woman gymnast is now officially crazy!

Go for the gold, Stay clean ladies…

The Nooge

So it’s Sunday night and I turned on NBC to see what they had cooking for me, and it was 2 things so far:

The Synchronized Diving thing…Which the American Women won their first metal ever! High five

And

Women’s Gymnastics. Now let me start by saying I know exactly 0 about women’s gymnastics, and gymnastics in general so I did a little bit of research. Turns out during these games the host country is accused of fibbing a bit to get one of their “women” on the team. The Olympic rules state that the competitors have to be 16 years old in the year of the games, and check this yo:

Read their whole article here: NY Times Article and Pictures

The summary is this, the girl in the picture is a girl the Chinese claim to be 17, but different lists have her to be 14 years of age.

Can I say something here? If you are going to lie about someone’s age, don’t be crazy and lie too old, McLovins of the world I’m looking in your direction.

The secret to being a good liar is lying just close enough to the truth that no one can reasonably call you on it! Come on China! I don’t know jack about gymnastics, but I know people, and she is probably 14.

Now on to team America (F*** Yeah!) that I happen to know exactly nothing about, but after doing some research (Read: Watched the event) I’ve found that I have been missing out.

Meet: Alicia Sacramone
Age: 20 (Born December 3, 1987)
Hot chick…and apparently a gymnast.

So yeah, that’s what I got out of the games today.

Working hard and Hardly Working!

The Nooge

So as I sit here this morning I am watching the Men’s Olympic Basketball game of the U.S. Vs. China. Here are some quick observations for those of you who aren’t up this morning to watch the game:

- The U.S. Jerseys are white, and so are the names on the back.

- This game is pretty close coming into the third, with roughly 6mins left the U.S is up 14. Not exactly a blow out, but I chalk this one up to China and their home court advantage.

- I enjoy hearing Doug Collins just say some of the dumbest things. For example, when talking about LeBron James, “Can you imagine what kind of running back he would have been?” Yeah Doug, a 6′8 running back, it’s not like he’d just be open to take shots all day, and I’m sure Lebron is fast for an NBAer, but in terms of NFL not sure he can run.

- Watching the Halftime report I learned the Yao Ming isn’t even the #1 selling jersey in his country, he’s #6. (The Chinese people love Kobe)

- The clips they showed of the jersey fashion shows kinda cracked me up. First they had a run way for different NBA jerseys, but at the end they all just started dancing. Maybe they wanted to show with the freedom of no sleeves any dance moves are possible.

- A few game thoughts: The Chinese fans seem to love the NBA guys, it’s not that huge a home court advantage for China. Chinese fans love when their guys shoot the 3, I kind of feel bad because they sound so disappointed with it clanks off the rim.

- The Red and Yellow of the Chinese jerseys kinda makes them look like they are team McDonalds. Tell me those colors aren’t the exact colors that Ronald McDonald wears.

- On the subject of a strange color scheme the orange and yellow ball makes me kind of think I’m watching some weird slamball contest

- And my final thought, it doesn’t seem like the U.S. will ever lose, but it also doesn’t have the feel of a “dream team”. I expect the Gold here, but it’s really just not show time enough for me. Anywhoo, I’ll be dropping Olympic coverage as I see fit throughout the games (And trust me I’ll study women’s volleyball and other events super hard!)

Enjoy the Games!!!!! This one’s over as I type U.S. is up 26 through 3, I’m out.

The Nooge