Comments on: Michael Phelps http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/08/14/michael-phelps/ Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:19:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: suek http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/08/14/michael-phelps/comment-page-1/#comment-27607 suek Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:44:45 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3401#comment-27607 Humor for the day... http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/08/photo-of-very-young-michael-phelps.html Humor for the day…

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]]> By: benning http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/08/14/michael-phelps/comment-page-1/#comment-27145 benning Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:43:12 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3401#comment-27145 I know what you mean. I used to swim competitively, so the swimming is near and dear. My favorite Olympic sport has been gymmnastics, <a href="http://benningswritingpad.blogspot.com/2008/08/i-just-dont-know.html" rel="nofollow">but this time around it feels "off"</a> and I believe it's the Beijing venue. The whole thing feels like "The Prisoner" television show, somehow. I know what you mean. I used to swim competitively, so the swimming is near and dear. My favorite Olympic sport has been gymmnastics, but this time around it feels “off” and I believe it’s the Beijing venue. The whole thing feels like “The Prisoner” television show, somehow.

]]> By: Patrick OHannigan http://www.bookwormroom.com/2008/08/14/michael-phelps/comment-page-1/#comment-27143 Patrick OHannigan Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.bookwormroom.com/?p=3401#comment-27143 A wonderful post, Bookworm. You're right about diluting the Olympic brand, I think, an about how overwhelming the nonstop coverage can be. Frankly, I wish NBC had spent more of its prime time coverage on sports like fencing. But I don't mind beach volleyball, and "all Phelps, all the time" will fade as swimming makes way for track and field. Among the gymnasts, you already know I'm rooting for Germany's Oksana Chusovitina. And notwithstanding the mistakes they made, Alicia Sacramone and her U.S. teammates have nothing to apologize for-- the idea that they "stumbled" to a silver medal really gets on my nerves. At elite competition levels, any team can beat any other team on any given day. The only exception to that rule is the one that everybody sees coming from a mile away, as when the U.S. basketball "Dream Team" basically put on a show for the rest of the world in 1992. A wonderful post, Bookworm. You’re right about diluting the Olympic brand, I think, an about how overwhelming the nonstop coverage can be. Frankly, I wish NBC had spent more of its prime time coverage on sports like fencing. But I don’t mind beach volleyball, and “all Phelps, all the time” will fade as swimming makes way for track and field.

Among the gymnasts, you already know I’m rooting for Germany’s Oksana Chusovitina. And notwithstanding the mistakes they made, Alicia Sacramone and her U.S. teammates have nothing to apologize for– the idea that they “stumbled” to a silver medal really gets on my nerves. At elite competition levels, any team can beat any other team on any given day. The only exception to that rule is the one that everybody sees coming from a mile away, as when the U.S. basketball “Dream Team” basically put on a show for the rest of the world in 1992.

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