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31 Thoughts We All Have While Watching The Olympics

"I am a potato."

 Hannah Rad
Aug 16, 2016
Virginia Tech
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31 Thoughts We All Have While Watching The Olympics
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It's here guys: the 2016 Summer Olympics. Every four years we are blessed to see the best in the world perform their hearts out to the tune of their beloved sport. Millions of people around the world gather to watch three weeks of action packed drama in the sports world. While the Olympics have only been on for about a week, I've put together a list of the many, many thoughts I experience while watching these amazing athletes compete.

  1. Wait, he/she is younger than me?
  2. Oh my god, they don’t even jiggle a little when they run.
  3. Abs, bulge, abs, bulge, abs, abs, butt.
  4. THE U.S. IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY ON EARTH GOD BLESS AMERICA.
  5. Wait, we suck.
  6. Wow he is really hot.
  7. Wow she is really hot.
  8. I am a potato.
  9. Why didn’t my parents force me to do a sport as a kid? They totally robbed me of an Olympic gold medal.
  10. Oh great, that’s his wife in the stands … with their baby … Oh wow OK, so he's not single. Moving on.
  11. I wonder if an Olympic athlete would ever date me.
  12. Where do I even meet an athlete like that?
  13. She had a baby and she looks better than me.
  14. These swimmers are gigantic human beings. Seriously though, those shoulders.
  15. These judges are jerks.
  16. So you’re saying she’s not 12? She’s 25? Oh.
  17. I am embarrassed by my own physical capabilities.
  18. I wonder if I start training now if I can make it into the next Olympics.
  19. Wait, that’s an Olympic sport?
  20. Alright, I’m going to start training today, seriously.
  21. Aw, their parents are so cute.
  22. I bet my parents are so disappointed in me.
  23. I would totally cry if I was on the podium.
  24. I should probably learn the words to the national anthem.
  25. I wonder what they’re saying to each other in their language.
  26. STICK IT. STIIIIIICK IT.
  27. I'm pretty sure I can't even swim 50m without assistance.
  28. Michael Phelps isn't human.
  29. They probably wouldn't be able to interview me after I compete because I'd be collapsed on the floor crying.
  30. I wonder how much these athletes eat a day.
  31. If I worked out half as much as they did I could eat SO much.

Enjoy the rest of the Olympics!

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