olympic wrap up

It has been a great 17 days of excitement in Beijing. Over the past couple of weeks my blog posts have been oriented around the Olympic games. I feel it's really great to see people from countries all over the world come together, compete and show great sportsmanship towards one another.

On a global perpective there was one thing that bothered me. I don't why for two and a half weeks why all countries can't stop any type of fighting/wars. Was it necessary for Russia and Georgia to start fighting during the Olympics? When World War II was going on there was a truce during the World Cup. For an event bigger than that, the Olympics,why couldn't the same thing occur?

Okay, that enough of my venting..



Here's a list of some memories of this Olympics.

Exciting moments
-Seeing Yao Ming play an Olympic game in front of his home crowd.
-The Redeem team(USA Men's Basketball team) winning the Gold Medal.
-The Chinese Men's and women's gynastic teams winning the gold.
-Michael Phelps winnng 8 Gold medals.
-Usain Bolt 100m and 200m World records.
-USA Men's Gymnastics winning the bronzr.
-Shawn Johnson and Natasia Lukin winning gold medals in gymnastics.
-Richard Thompson winning the silver 100m for Trinidad and Tobago.




Inspring moments
-Dara Torres winning a medal in swimming a the age of 41.
-Natalie Du Toit of South Africa swimming with one leg.
-33 year old Oksana Chusovitina of Germany competing for a medal in women's gynastica

Sad moments
-Tang Yongming atacking US citizens and killing one of them.
-Liu xiang being hurt and not being able to perform in the 100 meter hurdle in front of his home fans.
-Both US 4x100 meter teams losing.


Question for you answer..

Which feat do you feel was better Usain Bolt's 3 Gold and 3 World Records or Michael Phelps 8 Gold medals and 7 World Records?




Post a comment of your thoughts on this summer's olympics



Here is an old school olympic video

Spain's Basketball team on Candid Camera, Racism in Spain

I don't know about anyone else but when I saw this photo I was shocked that they would even do something like this. I am not one to go on the race card but I do not buy the excuse that it was done thinking it was cool and harmless. This is a gesture little kids do and that is not even good, but at least they are ignorant to know how offensive it is. What if the Olympics took place in Africa this year what they have taken this picture in black face and thought it was cool? All of those players are well cultured and travelled, so I find it hard to believe that not one person in this photo did not think that this would be offensive. Pau Gasol would not walk up to Yao Ming before a Lakers/Rockets game and do this gesture and think it cool...He would not do it.

I feel this is gotten down played a lot. I have to agree with comment Jason Kidd made. If this was the United States Basketball team that took this photo, this would have been a huge issue. The Olympic Comittee would have stepped in as well as the NBA.

What also surprises more about this is that there have been some many racial incidents Spain during the football (soccer) games. You would think
that they would not want to have any actions signify any notion of negativity.

Here are some clips on Racism in Soccer in Spain

Here is story from ESPN. It is a very good clip. If you dont want to watch the whole thing watch it from 4:50 mark. You will see the coach of Spain talking about Theirry Henry a Black Soccer Player.


Racism in Spanish Football Part I



Part II


Here is Samuel Eto'o talking about the racism is Soccer. He is one one the players in the previous clips that was a victim of this.



Please post your comments on your thoughts on all of this.


Have a good day!

21 Questions

Here's 21 Questions for you to think about...




1)Who will be the president of the US after this election?..Did the Paris Hilton comments really hurt McCain?




2)Is Hip Hop dead?



3)Will Brett Farve be successful as a New York Jet?



4)Will there ever be peace between the Isrealis and Palestine?



5)Will the U.S. Men's Basketball team win the Gold medal in the Olympics?...Are people interested in the Olympics like they used to be?



6) Will Soccer ever be popular in the U.S.?



7)Will the US economy get better in the next three years?



8)Who/what will be the next music phenom?



9)Will drugs ever be legalized?



10)Will gay marriage be legalized across the U.S.?



11) Why do they call MTV Music Television when 85% of the programming is reality shows?



12) Will newspapers and magazines get phased out by internet?



13) Will CD's get phased out by internet?


14) Will people ever start acknowledging kindness by someone rather always than always acknowleging the negative things one does?


15)Why are people so intrigued with gossip?...How does one decided to become a paparazzi?...Why are people so hyped over Paris Hilton and Britney Spears?


16) Are men really that different from women?


17)Why shouldn't college athletes get paid a stipen for playing collegiate sports?



18)Why do people hate on people that are doing something good?



19) Do you think there will be a tragic turn of events to lead to the end of the wordld in the next 25 years?



20) Do you think the world will look like the Jetsons in the next 10 years?



21) Does sex really sell?




Please post some of your answers to these questions and please add any interesting questions that you may have.



Have a good one!

Signing off... Your friendly neighborhood Harlmite