Winter Olympics 2010

One of my biggest regrets in life is not being an Olympic athlete. A mere 14 years ago I made the choice to start training for the Summer Olympics, this decision was in 1996- I figured I would be good to go by the summer games in 2008. I was inspired by the obvious idols like Dominque Dawes, Shannon Miller (she was kinda a buff tho) that little cutie Dominque Moocheeeyannno and of course Keri Strug, which thanks to her I practiced landing a cartwheel on one foot for years to come. I don't know where I got sidetracked but here I am 14 years later and guess what is not hanging above my bed as I assumed it would be by now... my Olympic gold medal!! I had the best floor routine too, it was going to be to No Diggity, a mixture of hip hop and gymnastics.
But back to Vancouver. I cancelled all of my social plans last night, like invites for party buses, VIP at P&L, the usual stuff, to watch the opening ceremonies. Well it certainly wasn't like Beijing I'll just say that. But I'm not the only one saying it. And those Candadians are pretty damn defensive about their ceremony I've noticed. I keep hearing stuff like,
"Well we weren't trying to be like Beijing, we wanted something different."
"We wanted a low key thing, nothing too showy."
"We didn't want anything over the top!"
Ok we get it! No need to make up excuses, just own it already. Geesh. I mean after some major errors and the torch was failing to be lit, which some might say is the whole point of the ceremony, I think someone just went up there with some lighter fluid and matches to get the thing going- talk about low key. It's a snowboarding event, I'm sure matches and lighters weren't exactly hard to find.
How sad about that one poor athlete who died in a practice run. I heard it on the news and I was kind of angry at first because I thought the people were being pretty insensitive the way they kept referring to him as an Olympic loser. This man just died for God's sake, and all they care about is the fact he "lost" as they openly called him a loser. Turns out they were saying LUGER. Sounded like loser. I have a good feeling the lugers are going to be drawing straws to decide who has to go down that run first.