OLYMPICS

So late nights, temper tantrums and countless cups of coffee are upon us again, hard to believe it was 4 years ago since we last did this.
The IOC in all there wisdom have handed China the reigns as we strap ourselves in for 24 days of action packed sports. The games are a day old and already a number of things have began to annoy me, So I thought why not break my vow of silence and throw up a blog post, my first in quite some time. So here is my rant of an olympic flavour

OLYMPIC's IN CHINA

To start with why the fuck are the games in Beijing China? Its a smog filled, hot hell hole. The athletes would be better off staying home and smoking 2 packs of winnie blues per day, i get the feeling it would be heathier, least you could guarantee that your ham sandwich was actually containing something that went close to resembling a pig prior to becoming your lunch.
Now im not going to get into the political stoush about freeing Tibet but its another log on the fire surely?
Seems to me that all we are doing by staging the games in China is encouraging the Chinese atheletes to ramp up their steroid abuse programmes. 6 Gold medals on day 2 and half of those from athletes that not even Hu Jintao hasever heard of.

OLYMPIC BOXING

Olympic boxing would have to be the most frustrating annoying 8 minutes of crap ever televised. Im considering approaching Russia myself to see if i can borrow a couple of well directed missles to take out a couple of satellites so i dont have to endure it for a second longer, and plus Georgia could do with a break but more on that later.
I watched a couple of bouts and it appears to me that the judges must be either all brain dead or asleep. I counted at least 18 body shots thrown by a paticular boxer and not 1 scored despite the fact they clearly hit an unprotected midriff. Then the same boxer set up a couple of jabs to the head, 3 in quick succession landed, no movement in scorem his opponent however threw a big haymaker whilst holding his opponent down making contact with the back of the head, and you guessed it for a score. Later on in the same bout the guy who was actually boxing hit his opponent flush, so well the guy stumbled back a little unsteady on his feet, clearly a punch must have landed for this to happen, nope no score.
Olympic boxing sucks, its clearly rigged (and no it wasnt an australian boxer so what would i care?) its to be avoided at all costs from here on in.

OLYMPIC DIVING

Olympic diving or any diving for that matter is a joke. How anybody can happily put the result of a lifetime of training into somebody elses opinion is beyond me. Take the example from the 3 metre synchronised springboard today. The Australian pairing who have never finished outside the top 3 in any event finish 5th. When interviewed after the event the comments made were that they couldnt understand why their dives scored so lowely? They had reviewed the tapes and that they couldnt understand why their dives scored so lowely? They had reviewed the tapes and they couldnt work out how their dives were different from the other teams? well there are 2 possible scenarios here.
1. They were shit on the day, they should stop bitching about it and move on
2. and the most likely that they were ripped off because of who they were. the favourites going into the event in a country far far from home in more ways than just the geographical location. Put bluntly the judges the event in a country far far from home in more ways than just the geographical location. Put bluntly the judges were biased cheats.

I know what i think, but you can make up your own minds!


Well 22 days of the Olympics to go and im sure much more ranting from me.