Enough with Michael Phelps already. 8 gold medals, good for him. Too bad they’re for swimming. Here’s a few things that I’ve read just today about this guy.
 
Could Mark Spitz beat Michael Phelps?
 
Maybe. 30 years ago they didn’t have the coaching and nutritional knowledge that we have today. They also didn’t have space age NASA [...]

Okay, I was going to skip today, but had to say something about this Swedish wrestler, Ara Abrahamian, who placed bronze (3rd for us regular people) a few days ago. He felt he was screwed by a bad call in his match that kept him from placing higher. Out of protest at the medal ceremony, [...]

I’m sure everyone’s heard now about the cute little Chinese girl who performed the anthem at the opening ceremonies was really lip synching to the voice of another Chinese girl. The real singer was deemed not attractive enough to do the song. I’m hearing about what an outrage it is that they pulled this bit [...]

I’d like to recommend the documentary “Bigger-Stronger-Faster”. It covers the topic of performance enhancement. Steroids mostly, but it covers so much more. Greenies, beta blockers, eye surgery, what makes one performance enhancement okay and another bad?
 
Do you remember when Ben Johnson smashed Carl Lewis at the 1988 Olympic games in Seoul, Korea but he got [...]

I think this is the first year that I may actually attempt to watch some of the Olympic games. I’m interested this year for a few reasons.
 
1. I’m older now and can appreciate more of what goes on. Many of the sports seemed silly to me before, and honestly many of them still do, but [...]