Joel's Rants and Raves: The Olympics

(Just thought this picture was really funny)

Ahh, olympics. Every four years irrelevant sports become relevant. Seriously, trampoline...... really? How the fuck do some of these "sports" became sports? Don't get me wrong I love sports. But when you make up sports to play just to give out medals, it gets really stupid. They should just break it down. Break it down to the main core sports. Track and field, soccer, basketball, some certain water sports, baseball, Volleyball (mainly cause I LOVE women's volleyball shorts), power lifting and pretty much anything that ACTUALLY involves some athletic skill. Shit like archery, trampoline, boat rowing, skeet shooting, syncronized swimming, diving, softball and fucking POWER WALKING?!? need to get the axe. Cause honestly any ass-hat can go out and do these so called "sports" and excel at them. Don't get me wrong some of these are fun to play and do, but it's like giving away medals to anyone who simply shows up.

The other day I heard some guy say, "Did you see Michael Phelps, that guy is a beast." I mean c'mon!! I respect what the guy's doing and all, but it's FUCKING SWIMMING!! You can't be a "beast" in the swimming pool. I'd be more impressed if someone could go out and win 8 golds in track and field. You might think that I'm just being a hater but think about it. Have you ever heard of Michael Spitz before Phelps was gonna beat his records? That's cause it's so irrelevant. BUT everyone knows who Carl Lewis is because track and field is more relevant and what I consider a real sport.

Lastly, I want to touch on China. China if you didn't know is a communist country. There are about 1.3 billion people in China. To give you an outlook on how many people that is match that 1.6 billion to the United States 300 million. With the world population being 6.7 billion that roughly translates to China having 1/6th of the worlds population. When anyone of those 1.6 billion in that country show any signs of having skills in any sport, they are then designated, from childhood, to learn and train for that sport for their whole lives. Couple that with the fact that they have so many people that they can put multiple entrants into each and every event. Thus, the reasoning why China has so many Gold medals in this Olympics. It's communism, home field advantage and just sheer numbers at work. Expect to see ALOT more of China dominating in the Olympics.

If you got this far into this blog and you are reading this, fuck you! Just want to see who actually reads and pays attention. hahaha