Olympics

The track events don't get underway until Friday, but there is plenty of excitement going on, in and around London, now.  My favorite sport this first week is swimming (of course).  There are many parallels to track - preliminary rounds, semi-finals, then finals in many events; similar competition times (100m swimming is about the same time as 400m running, etc.), and good US participation to keep things extra-interesting.  In fact, last night, Rowdy Gaines, the NBC color commentator for swimming, pointed out that one swimmers attempt to win the 100, 200 and 1500 was like trying to win the 400, 800 and 5K in track.

Once track gets rolling, it is going to be quite tough to try to wait for NBC to manipulate us with an over-produced version of a scattering of performances, when it appears the live events will be available for viewing online!