Sorry for the silence this week in regards to blog posts…there is no good excuse…except that I’m quite enthralled with the Olympics! Are you? If not, maybe these pictures will encourage you to start watching.
Naked Olympic Athletes…
Oh My…
Note to self…get off couch…turn off the tv…and start running!
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Who else out there is excited for the Summer Olympics?!?
I’m even a little bit more excited this year as I love all things British! Q & A time…
{Question 1}
What is your favorite Olympic event…summer or winter?
My Answer: Summer Olympics…I’m a sucker for Synchronized Swimming! Don’t be fooled by their flashy outfits & loads of make-up, those swimmers are incredibly talented athletes.
Winter Olympics…Figure Skating, specifically pairs figure skating (proving that I’m a little bit of a girly-girl when it comes to the Olympics)!
…But really I like to watch any and all Olympic events…from curling to badminton!
…What’s your answer??
{Synchronized Swimming}
{Pairs Figure Skating}
{Question 2}
Do you have a favorite Olympics moment from the past?
My Answer: Summer Olympics…gymnast Keri Strug’s amazing performance on the vault at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. She stuck her landing, despite injury & pain, and helped her team win gold. Watching Coach Bela Karolyi carry her to the medal stand still brings tears to my eyes! I bought the Wheaties cereal box with her likeness on it and joined in the laughter of her cameo on SNL.
Winter Olympics…speed skater Dan Jansen finally clinching gold in the 1,000m at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics, fulfilling his dream & honoring his sister’s memory who passed away from leukemia. There was a commercial on television during the Vancouver Olympics that recounted his tale…and I would cry (sob) every time it came on.
…What’s your answer??
{Keri Strug}
{Dan Jansen}
{Question 3}
If you could choose a new location for the future Olympics, where would it be?
My Answer: I would love to see a country in Africa get a bid for the summer Olympics…perhaps Botswana or South Africa. I also think that New Zealand would be an ideal location for either summer or winter!
…What’s your answer??
{Cape Town, South Africa}
{Auckland, New Zealand}
{Question 4}
What is your favorite “Queen’s English” word or phrase?
My Answer: Bugger, Bollocks, Blimey & Bloody Hell…I guess I like all the “B” words!
…What’s your answer??
{Might need to purchase these cheeky pencils}
…Let the 2012 London Summer Olympics begin!!!!!
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“Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright;
The band is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light,
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout;
But there is no joy in Mudville — mighty Casey has struck out.”
—Ernest L. Thayer, Casey at the Bat
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Finally, the baseball season is back in swing…
Don’t tell me about the world. Not today. It’s springtime and they’re knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball. ~Pete Hamill
Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off… the right pitch will come, but when it does, be prepared to run the bases. ~Rick Maksian
Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. ~Saul Steinberg
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. ~A. Bartlett Giamatti
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~Bryant Gumbel
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Ray Kinsella: I bet it’s good to be playing again, huh?
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Getting thrown out of baseball was like having part of me amputated. I’ve heard that old men wake up and scratch itchy legs that been dust for over fifty years. That was me. I’d wake up at night with the smell of the ball park in my nose, the cool of the grass on my feet… The thrill of the grass.
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