Hopefully, cancontent, you meant you have been taking in the remarkable breadth of wonderful sports action from the Olympics. It seems most here are still laser focused on their opening ceremonies critiques and have not noticed the Games are well underway.
Over the past two days, I've enjoyed watching women's mountain bike, men's and women's soccer, equestrian eventing from the palace at Versailles, archery, kayaking, swimming, beach volleyball, heck, even surfing from Tahiti... and very likely a few others! (I didn't bother watching the US men vs. Serbia in basketball).
If one can get past her or his partisanship for the US, you might have reveled as I did in the joy of the thousands on hand well outside of Paris who cheered on French cyclist Pauline Ferrand Prevot as she romped to victory over a crazy mountain biking course built just for the Olympics. She was in tears as she finished the roughly 35-kilometer course and was still emotionally charged as she accepted her gold medal about a half-hour later.
To me, that's the Olympics. Naysayers can try their darnedest to tear down the Games, and there are plenty of reasons to criticize them, but I love them, and can't wait for all that remains in the next 14 days (including, of course, our Huskies and their women's basketball teammates tipping off Monday).
As I said earlier, 'Go, USA! Go, world!'
