After 8 years of trying, Fat Nat wins Wednesday Night World Championships
Why do I find my eye’s welling up with tears?
I’m watching some guy I’d never heard of, in an event I’ve never heard of K1 500. It’s National Pride; he’s got a maple leaf on his chest…
Despite having free wireless internet, free board and free Cable TV (normal staples of my lifestyle) I just didn’t feel right as a gay innkeeper and bailed on that scene, so 9:30 pm I started the 8h drive up to Onterrible for a few weeks training and racing in my Home and Native Land. I cracked somewhere and slept a few hours in the Subie, before rolling up at my Bro’s place around 10 am. I said good-bye to him (& Kelly) around 4pm heading out to pre-ride Sunday’s ITT course. 200m off reaching the course (30 min drive) I was cracked, I don’t drive tired, so I stopped for a nap. When I woke up, it was dark!
Ever since started competing in sport (swimming) at 9 I just assumed that one day I would win an Olympic medal. Of course now I realize the preparation it takes to win Olympic medals. That I will never, for many reasons, wear one of those medals. Hmm. No conclusion coming to me yet.
What does it really say when so many records are falling? Like 16 year old East German (weren’t those chicks really dude’s?) records getting smushed by over 2 seconds… wow,
Are we to think that that people are evolving that quickly?
Or perhaps, are the Drug company’s and pharmacists the one’s making the progress?
So it’s sweet and sour watching the games. Sure I wish I was there, and I wish that Canadians bribed more officials, in the judged sports, and prepared better in the other sports. But I’m happy and I don’t have any demons following me around.
I’m sure that everyone has a list of
Events NOT worthy of the Olympics here are mine:
Trampoline – It belongs in the circus
Weightlifting – When 1/3 of the field tests positive every year, you’re out. Plus they are the ugliest people at the games.
Everything involving a Horse -go to the horse and dog olympics
Discus & Hammer throwing - it’s Frisbee and pointless
Shot Put -(see weightlifting)
Sailing, down river Kayaking -is rollercoaster riding next?
Baseball/softball “We’re not athlete’s we’re Ballplayers” -Exactly
Judo and Tae Bo - Wrestling and Boxing should be the only contact sports
Triple jump – redundant, learn the long jump
Deca/heptathalon – You are NOT the world’s greatest athlete’s
Events which should be modified:
Diving – only two medal events, say tandem platform, and 3m spring board
Synchronized swimming – Only team event or duo’s
Water Polo should be played in an aquarium, so the spectator’s can see what’s going on below the water, like Shamu
Gun shooting -only 2 medal events, if you include paintball, 3
After that Clean up they could add Cricket and Rugby, as they seem to be practiced the whole world over, 4 x 100m Hurdles would be a spectator sport because of Felecia’s DSL’s.
Canada just plain old sucked in the first week of the Olympics, so being down in the States was nice. They seem to have someone favored to win almost every event vs. CBC ‘That 9th place is really a great result for the Canadian Pair. They’ll be really pleased with that’. All the same I’m really glad to be back in Canada, a car full to the roof of gear ‘yeah I’m importing 12 beers, eh, and one bike helmet’.. then I’m doing my usual, back in Canada celebrations.
So the highlight of the week so far was winning the Wednesday Night World Championships. I’ve probably raced this every other year since I was a Junior, either way I’ve never won one, and it was really nice to get that out of the way.
Total readers that will care about this = 0.
As DK pointed out, I write mainly to amuse myself.
Nathaniel B’s that care about winning Wed Nite World Champs = 1.
Mission complete.
Finally the Cookies pictured last week were in fact for Dogs. But they smelled, looked, and tasted like people cookies… which lead me to “Mike do you think that these are really good for your dogs?” After he ate some Kelly pointed out that manufacturers can put pretty much anything into doggie cookies. Yum. Kristen had some while I was babysitting her, and she liked them too.
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PS if anyone though I was really going to go back and edit that last entry… well, hmm. Editing just isn’t my style… it would hinder the raw-unvarnished-Natness of the whole situation, and you should really know better than to think I would break form to do something like that.
PPS I’m also bored with the World’s Great Contest thing, I’ll probably announce the winners of different categories next week. Gifts and bribes will continue to be accepted.
