I am less than enthused by the limited coverage of the Olympics in Peru. What’s the point of having cable down here if the only channel of Olympic coverage I get is a local antennae station?
In the U.S. I was spoiled enough to watch the Olympics on several channels and choose the sports that I wanted to watch.
It hasn’t been much fun MISSING the Olympics from the Opening Ceremony to the Sporting Events and to what will be the final Closing Ceremony.
Fortunately, today I was privileged enough to see a somewhat interesting event…Gymnastics Trampoline. For the 10 minutes that I watched it I was able to witness some very talented athletes that made twisting, flipping and twirling look like second nature and some nervous athletes (*cough*”Portugal”*cough*) just eat it.
The most entertaining part of this event wasn’t so much the athletes, but rather the judges. Who knew that judges could be so entertaining?! I’m not talking about scandalous scoring, no, no, that is reserved for the Winter Olympics, but just watching their heads bob up and down, up and down, up and down, tracking the athletes was the entertaining bit.
(You know, the same kind of shameless pleasure that you get when you pretend like you’re going to throw a ball or a stick for your dog to fetch.)
Since Youtube is cracking down on “Copyrighted” material, meaning 2008 Olympic footage is a no-go, I decided to share what Youtube videos I could scrounge up to share a little bit of the fun with you.
(That is if you haven’t been watching the Olympics on the 5 channels of Olympic coverage that they have in the States.)
And Parents, if your kids like jumping around on the trampoline like monkeys, let them. It may just garner them an Olympic Medal one day. Either that or they’ll have a great career with La Tarumba.
The Glory.
The Funny Horror Stories.
An Elephant?
And Something You Shouldn’t Try at Home.
*Disclaimer: God forbid I should be “infringing” on any copyrights, so click on the video, icon or photo for the source credit.
Filed under: Random Stuff | Tagged: 2004 olympics, 2008 olympics, athletes, bloopers, gymnastics, Peru, trampoline
Peru only has 4 medals (1 gold 3 silver) all time, 3 of them in shooting (yawn), how enthusiastic do you expect them to be about the Olympics? They refused to even pay the plane ticket for their athletes to try and qualify, because the qualifying was in Chile… terrible eh? Frankly, I am surprised you got to see anything there.