Joe Soriano
O.J. LewisShirtless Decline in Civilization
July 31st 2012 15:07
Wasn't sure at first if I was going to have any tweets to post today, but a few showed up throughout the day. I had a backup plan anyways, but now I can just save it for some day to come. Before I get to those there were some big stories from the Olympics yesterday, what a shocker.
Missy Franklin is a 17 year old American swimmer from Colorado. Everyone already knows this because her story has been told a lot leading up to London and throughout the games. She still swims on here high school team which is pretty crazy but awesome; meaning she has had to turned down many sponsorships. Swimming in college is something else she wants to do, so sponsors you better wait. The biggest thing, outside of being only 17, is that her parents didn't move her out to California or somewhere else to train with other elite swimmers and coaches. Colorado is where her life is and where she has a great time being a teenager; she has no problem having fun. Just watch before any of her races; she is dancing and smiling which she can do on a plane too.
Franklin touches the wall, looks up, she is in the finals for the 200 freestyle. Other swimmers head back to change and rest for races later in the day or the next. She does not follow; instead she hops in a warm up pool to stay loose. In less than 14 minutes later she will again be touching the wall, looking up, but instead she'll have her first Olympic medal and it's gold. She has a huge smile on her face, partly because she won but also because thats just who she is. Her parents are in the stands going crazy, rightly so, knowing their daughter is a huge star and inspiration.
Missy wasn't the only one standing proud to the National Anthem; Dana Vollmer set a World Record in the 100 butterfly final becoming the first woman ever under 56 seconds, and Matthew Grevers and Nicholas Thoman finished 1,2 in the 100 backstroke. Oustide of the Americans the other big story was Great Britain's bronze medal in men's gymnastics team, their first medal in this event in over a century. Bronze seemed their destination after they finished outlasting Ukraine, and the 3-time World Champion finishing off Japan's silver. Then Kohei Uchimura felt resulting in the English moving up to silver only for a short 5 minute review to change the score and push them back down to bronze.
Thats enough news from the day in sports so here are some tweets.
1) "Shirtless Tebow over-coverage is certainly the most valid example of the decline of Western civilization in, oh, decades."- Peter King, @SI_PeterKing
Not really Tebow bashing, more bashing the media which is still ok with me. He did know the cameras were on, lying is a sin Tim.
2) "Hope Solo now on rant about inferior quality of orange wedges served at halftime."- Kenny Mayne, @Kenny_Mayne
She better not rant about orange wedges at half, Those were the greatest thing of all time.
3) "Preparation is the key to taking advantage of opportunity when it arrives."- Emmitt Smith, @EmmittSmith22
4) "Until today I didn't know Lufthansa served reindeer. Didn't know people ate it. Did not taste like chicken." -Kenny Mayne, @Kenny_Mayne
At least I wont be thinking of Rudolf when I eat some fried chicken later.
Missy Franklin is a 17 year old American swimmer from Colorado. Everyone already knows this because her story has been told a lot leading up to London and throughout the games. She still swims on here high school team which is pretty crazy but awesome; meaning she has had to turned down many sponsorships. Swimming in college is something else she wants to do, so sponsors you better wait. The biggest thing, outside of being only 17, is that her parents didn't move her out to California or somewhere else to train with other elite swimmers and coaches. Colorado is where her life is and where she has a great time being a teenager; she has no problem having fun. Just watch before any of her races; she is dancing and smiling which she can do on a plane too.
Franklin touches the wall, looks up, she is in the finals for the 200 freestyle. Other swimmers head back to change and rest for races later in the day or the next. She does not follow; instead she hops in a warm up pool to stay loose. In less than 14 minutes later she will again be touching the wall, looking up, but instead she'll have her first Olympic medal and it's gold. She has a huge smile on her face, partly because she won but also because thats just who she is. Her parents are in the stands going crazy, rightly so, knowing their daughter is a huge star and inspiration.
Missy wasn't the only one standing proud to the National Anthem; Dana Vollmer set a World Record in the 100 butterfly final becoming the first woman ever under 56 seconds, and Matthew Grevers and Nicholas Thoman finished 1,2 in the 100 backstroke. Oustide of the Americans the other big story was Great Britain's bronze medal in men's gymnastics team, their first medal in this event in over a century. Bronze seemed their destination after they finished outlasting Ukraine, and the 3-time World Champion finishing off Japan's silver. Then Kohei Uchimura felt resulting in the English moving up to silver only for a short 5 minute review to change the score and push them back down to bronze.
Thats enough news from the day in sports so here are some tweets.
1) "Shirtless Tebow over-coverage is certainly the most valid example of the decline of Western civilization in, oh, decades."- Peter King, @SI_PeterKing
Not really Tebow bashing, more bashing the media which is still ok with me. He did know the cameras were on, lying is a sin Tim.
2) "Hope Solo now on rant about inferior quality of orange wedges served at halftime."- Kenny Mayne, @Kenny_Mayne
She better not rant about orange wedges at half, Those were the greatest thing of all time.
3) "Preparation is the key to taking advantage of opportunity when it arrives."- Emmitt Smith, @EmmittSmith22
4) "Until today I didn't know Lufthansa served reindeer. Didn't know people ate it. Did not taste like chicken." -Kenny Mayne, @Kenny_Mayne
At least I wont be thinking of Rudolf when I eat some fried chicken later.
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