Brainfart's Olympic Thoughts

The Olympics are over and the good guys (that would America) won the most medals, England put on a good show, and we learned that badminton is an Olympic sport for some reason.  Well, here are some other things that Brainfart took away from the games:

• Other than the cool video with the Queen and Daniel Craig, the Opening Ceremonies were kind of lame.  Then again, the Beijing Opening Ceremony was ridiculous and there was no way London was going to live up to that.
• American sprinter Tyson Gay ran the 100 meter sprint in 9.80 seconds, which would have won him the gold medal in every Olympics except this year and in 2008 (Usain Bolt is really fast), yet he didn't even medal in this year's event.
• I have gone over this before, but women's field hockey players are insane hot.
• Did anybody see a fencing or archery overtime?  In archery, if the match ended in a tie, there was a one arrow shoot-off where the closest to the center won.  I found that crazy, but not as crazy as fencing overtime.  In the team fencing event I watched, the two teams competed for 30 minutes which (obviously) ended in a tie and went to sudden death overtime.  In sudden death, the first fencer to score a touch won.  I found that absolutely crazy awesome.
• The Chinese won the second most medals and yet every Chinese "athlete" I saw looked so unathletic, but then again, ping pong and badminton are Olympic sports and they raked it in those events.
• They could have picked a better color than that official Olympic purple-ish they used.  It especially looked strange all over the walls of Wimbledon.
• Apparently, archery is really popular this year.  The reason behind this is The Hunger Games movie, you know, the movie where kids kill each other for sport.  Tween girls are so stupid.
• Unfortunately, I found out that Hope Solo is not Han Solo's daughter.  It turns out that her dad's name is Jeff.  However, he was con man/swindler, so maybe Han just changed his name when he came to Earth.  My fingers are crossed.
• I found it weird that sprinters have such jacked upper bodies, what do large biceps have to do with running really fast?
• The closing ceremonies would have made anyone feel like they had ADD - too much.
• Once the PGA Championship started, I stopped caring about the Olympics.  And that takes into account that it's golf and the final round was boring once Roy McAvoy (or is it Rory McIlroy?) pulled away.

"What I wanted give to be in the middle of that celebratory hug."