The Paralympics start soon, and that's chock full of Little Natalia stories, so all is not lost!
I'm really interested in how fast
Oscar Pistorius can run.
Crap--I don't have cable, otherwise I totally would watch the Paralympics. It feels so weird--today I changed the channel from NBC for the first time in two weeks.
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Okay, that's good to know. Memo to self: turn to CBS
on weekends.
*sigh* The DNC needs more fireworks and synchronized dancers. But I'm hoping things will pick up when Barack starts the decathlon.
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We couldn't stop laughing about him. Rumpled pants, unbuttoned jacket, clueless look. My goodness. Chris Farley indeed.
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To me, he looked like a grown-up Dudley Dursley. That said: I'm already looking forward to the London games and am actively thinking about getting tickets. Does anybody have an idea when those are going on sale?
Only 533 days to go until the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver! And 1463 days to go until the 2012 Summer Olympics in London!
*sigh* Why must it be such a LONG wait? I am definitely going through an Olympics withdrawl.
Thank you very much.
And to chime in with jcpdiesel21: I don't want to wait so loooooong... Thank God for the changed schedule of the Winter Olympics.
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Heh. Yesterday morning, when I was puttering around before leaving for work, I almost turned on the tv to find out what little-known sport was being shown on the USA network.
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See, I prefer having the Olympics in the same year as you get one AWESOME year of sport.
Plus in the two years in between Olympiads you get the World Cup and Commenwealth Games (which I'm actully looking forward to now, because it will be ALL about who will wil out of Australia and England.
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Funnily enough, had you turned on USA, you would have seen tennis. They're showing the US Open almost non-stop.
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I definitely prefer the scedule as it is now.
If they put them back together you'd have to wait 4 years to see more games instead of just two. Two years is long enough of a wait. Plus, I get much more into the Summer Olympics now. When both Olympics were in the same year, I didn't really pay that much attention to the Summer games.
I've been watching bits of the Paralympics and wanted to find out more about how athletes are categorised - there were some swimming events where one armed guys were competing against two armed guys, which doesn't seem fair to me.