Hi Friends:
I love the Olympics--the pageantry, the honor, the sportsmanship, the skill, even the commercials!
Here are my top favorite/weird things I like about the Olympics:
1. Super obscure sports that I've never heard of but someone has spent their entire life studying (equestrian dressage, slalom kayaking, speedwalking?!).
2. That the oldest gold medalist was 72 years old. It makes me feel like I could still win a medal. For something that I take up in 20 years.
3. In addition to sports for medals, there are also exhibition sports that, if popular, could one day become Olympic events, such as Ultimate Frisbee.
4. This year's Olympics opening ceremony was directed by Danny Boyle, who also directed "Slumdog Millionaire" and my favorite zombie movie, "28 Days Later." Despite the popularity of zombies nowadays, there were no zombies in the opening ceremony. I am, frankly, surprised.
5. This year, there are three Olympians who are competing but are not representing a country.
6. Also this year, every country competing has women on their team.
I hope you are finding hearps of interesting and amazing things in this year's Olympics, and that your voices aren't too hoarse from cheering.
Have a great week!
-meredith
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