Olympics

I just got done watching the balance beam competition of the Olympics. Its pretty cool when a nice young lady from the midwestern US in farm country of iowa can be the gold medal winner. What do you think was going though her mind? Unless you train fro an olympic event, how could we know. Did you see her mom in the stands, bawling her eyes out in pride for her daughters acheivements. All the sweat and toil. All the traning hours. All the money. All the dedication to a craft that few of us can even come close to. Any event, winter or summer, in the Olympics, ones that win or even the ones you never hear about, participate in their event giving everything they have, in their event and in their training, have everything to be proud of.
The unfortunate part of the Olympics is that Governments have their dirty little paws in it, tainting it. Politial judging(allegedly), The announcers saying thaat they failed with only a differance of 2 tenths of a point behind, 7/100 in a swimming event, That is what ruins it for me, The constant pressure. but then they do say on the beginning of the program of the field of Competition is fierce.
All in all ild have to say that the Olympics give kids something to strive for, albeit having to give up mosst of your childhood but then all things require a choice somewhere. Phelps in swimming was my favorite story. He had ADHD and picked on in school constantly. What I came away with with his story was that here was a kid with a lot of uphill battles,now sits with his name in the history books and the respect of the Globe. Work always pay off!