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24 Random Thoughts I Had While Watching The Olympics

Just our four year reminder that we are all average.

Lexie Hensley
Aug 17, 2016
Birmingham, Alabama
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24 Random Thoughts I Had While Watching The Olympics
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The Olympics are always a great way to make an average person, like myself, feel inadequate in any type of activity. This is because the best of the best from many different countries come together in almost any sport you can think of from basketball to ping pong. My favorite events are always gymnastics and swimming, but I watch as many events as I can because GO USA!! Here are my top thoughts while watching this summer’s Olympics:

1. How are they swimming that fast without even using their legs?

2. How do the polo players launch out of the water like that? *tries this while swimming in a lake and fails miserably*

3. They should just put a normal person in the middle lane so we can see how fast the swimmers are really going. They should do that with every sport.

4. If I were a water polo player, I would have drowned already.

5. Literally everyone except Phelps knows we will see him compete in at least one event in Tokyo

6. That poor lifeguard…

7. (Backstroke Events) Water is literally splashing all over their face, how are they even breathing???

8. They just ran 100m and it doesn’t even look like they’re out of breath…

9. They should have radar detectors to tell us how fast they’re running!

10. How do you run fast enough to lap multiple people?!?!

11. I reallllly want to try pole vaulting, it looks so fun.

12. *watching ping pong* how???

13. *girl gets cut in fencing* I didn't even know those were legitimately sharp...

14. That basketball looks like it has pretzel dough wrapped around it.

15. Who would win in a sprint race? A gymnast about to do their vault or one of the track athletes?

16. Why don’t the men get music during their floor routine?

17. *Seemingly perfect routine gets low score* I’d really like to see these judges do gymnastics for how harshly they judge.

18. Did they just call a 20-something-year-old???

19. And a 40-year-old just did two vaults?! You go girl!

20. None of the Chinese gymnasts look like they meet the minimum age requirement.

21. *After Simone almost falls on beam* FALL… FALL… GO LAURIE!!! FALL… FALL…

22. Men’s parallel bars look painful like they land on their armpits…

23. *critiques super hard whenever they show anything in slow motion even though I would never be able to do anything close to this*

24. Why didn’t my parents put me in gymnastics when I was 3, I could have been an Olympian!!



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