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An Olympic Summer

Who doesn't love an Olympic Summer?

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I absolutely love the Olympics. I look forward to it every single time they're about to happen. If I could I would stay home the whole time they were on and just binge watch them all day, I would. It's a great time to see awesome athletes from your country give it their all and bring home gold! Silver and bronze is okay too. Whether it's the summer or Winter Olympics you always know it's going to be so good. Everyone always looks forward to the opening ceremonies to see what cool things the host country will do to try and out-do everyone else before them. But they're usually always good.

This years Olympics has been so good! Although I can't sit by the TV all day everyday until they're over, it's still exciting to come home at night and flip on the TV to watch your country kick butt! Swimming has been amazing this year! USA has had some stunning athletes all around, but to me, swimming has been the craziest. Katie Ledecky has absolutely crushed everyone and to think she's only 19! Makes you feel like "what have I done with my life recently". Michael Phelps has been racking up the gold again, which is really no surprise, and he has his gorgeous family cheering him on while he does it. He continues to make history every time he gets in that pool and that just makes watching him even more exciting! Not only those two, but the Simone Manuel, the first African American to win a gold in swimming absolutely killed it as well and gave it her all! What is also crazy is how amazing Simone Biles has been. This Olympics just seems to be a summer of records, which is so fun to watch no matter what country they are from. Just makes it that much better that they're from Team USA.

Team USA athletes have been amazing so far, and it really makes you proud to be from this country. I love watching the athletes' faces when they get up on that podium in front of everyone and starting shedding tears because they are so blessed and grateful for being from this country and having the opportunities that they have. It may or may not make you rethink your life sometimes and say "man I wish I was 19 and in the Olympics winning gold medals", but that's okay! I hate we have to wait so long in between Olympics, but it just makes it that much more special I guess. Everyone tune in to watch Team USA finish out the rest of the Olympics doing what they do best, winning GOLD.

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