Nine more days, you guys. And 9 more great moments in Olympic history to go! I was thinking again last night about what makes the Olympic Games so wonderful, and I decided that it’s the promise that something of great magnitude is going to happen. An underdog story. A heroic feat. A historic meeting. The Games certainly fulfill their promise, time and time again. So without further ado…
Category Archives: Wide World Of Sports
Great Moments in Olympic History: #9 Abebe Bikila
Filed under BEST Things Ever, Wide World Of Sports
Countdown to the Olympic Games: 10 More Days to Go!
If you ask anyone who knows me, they’ll tell you my three favorite things in life are sports, the UK, and things that happen every four years. Well, what do you know?!? The OLYMPICS are coming!!
We’re 10 days away from the event four years in the making, and I cannot let this gathering of nations pass without celebrating in some way.
The pageantry! The sportsmanship! The possible Kate Middleton sightings! I’m too excited to sleep!
Filed under BEST Things Ever, Wide World Of Sports
Is It Too Much To Ask To See A Triple Crown Winner In My Lifetime?
Photo courtesy of the New York Times.
Today’s news that I’ll Have Another was scratched from Saturday’s Belmont Stakes was devastating to me. Every year I get so excited that it might be the year I’ll see a horse win the Triple Crown. And every year I’m disappointed. I mean, clearly I should be upset that this poor horse is suffering with some kind of tendonitis in his leg. And I am. But I’m also selfish and there are things that I want, nay need, to see happen in my lifetime.
Filed under Wide World Of Sports, WORST Things Ever
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