IT’S ALL GOLDEN

Now that the Olympics are over and the US team has made a huge splash in medals, three other countries have to be recognized as major players in excitement.

The Chinese from the opening of the games to about a day and a half before closing the games, showed that they are to be reckoned with on the Olympic stage. Capturing 87 medals in all is pretty remarkable an achievement. The Russians seemed to come out of nowhere the last few days and appeared they could overtake the Chinese in medal count. And to make it a nice story, the English gathered their pride together and came on strong as the host country.

This was the ‘Women’s’ Olympics and they all brought as much excitement to the games if not more than the men this time. The beauty of these games showed we in this world need not send our young into wars and sacrifice their lives, but instead in a peace-filled venue showing their talents and skills in friendly competition makes it a better world.

There were some unfortunate moments, with drugs testing and sportsmanship issues, but on the whole, it was a great Olympics and all who made it to the games need to be congratulated for their hard work, and dedication in getting there.

It would be hard to single out the greatest moment, and I say that because the greatest moment for who would be the question. For a country or individual, it was all exciting. In the end though, the individual whether on a team or single competitor was having his/her greatest moment just by competing. 17 days of games for 10,500 athletes and vying for 2,300 medals! WOW!

That’s all I wrote, folks!