Our family has pretty much been watching as much of the Olympics as possible- which isn't hard since its showing almost 24/7. It has been so fascinating and exciting! There are some sports I've never heard of - example: The Clean and Jerk.
Our favorites have been watching the Men and Women's sand volleyball, swimming (we have such super talented kids swimming for us!) and last night we watched the men's gymnastics. The Men's gymnastics team had a bunch of bad luck coming into the games, our two former gold medal olympians were injured and our team had 3 of 4 alternates competing. Medal hopes were nonexistent. But somehow those guys pulled out a Bronze- and some of their routines were just crazy good.
If you haven't been watching- I recommend that you at least watch the following events on youtube or here.
Men's 4x100 relay
Men's gymnastics (highbar rotation)
Any of Phelps' races
Men's 100 Backstroke (we snag 1 and 2)
Tonight starting at 7pm on NBC is women's gymnstics (we're a gold medal contender) and at 9pm starts the swimming (Phelps is going for 2 more medals).
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I love the Olympics! We have been watching too. I can't believe those gymnists last night, they were so good, and the swimmers are so fast! I'm sad that Bekah starts school tomorrow and can't be up watching with us.
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