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Jamaica’s Usain Bolt
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Our family is really going to miss watching the Olympics together.
How about you??
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We viewed the opening night ceremonies under the stars in Greece.
Slim Paley photo
It was all good… after we found the English speaking channel.
Hard to follow intense hospital bed choreography without some sort of explanation.
Just sayin.
Caught the second week, though somewhat spottily, late nights in our hotel room at Le Bristol in Paris, albeit with a decidedly British perspective, courtesy of BBC 3.
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As fans of Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe from the last summer Olympics, we enjoyed watching him as a commentator on the British coverage this year.
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Ian Thorpe and some other hunky British swimmer commentator.
Oh wait,
I might be wandering off track…
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At this point, I must cop to being a bit of a cheater when it came time to pick a team to root for.
As a newly minted American citizen
it was very easy to step up and root for all the charismatic Yanks
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Michael Phelps paving his very own yellow brick road.
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A little music for your viewing pleasure…
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Phelps
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Decathlon gold medal winner Ashton Eaton
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6′ 4″ Destinee Hooker
and the U.S. Women’s volleyball team had me on the edge of my seat (OK, my bed) and almost convinced I should start working out more.
But then I grabbed another chocolate croissant and got real.
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Are these women unbelievable??
Kerri & Misty
All I remember from playing high school volleyball are the blood blisters I’d get on the inside of my wrists if the ball so much as touched me.
Good thing it rarely happened.
Oh…the traumatic memories of never getting picked…
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Don’t even know what he did, but damn, those are some guns.
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And what’s not to love about a face like this?!
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Gabby Douglas
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Lolo Jones
fought through unfair press to finish 4th.
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However when the Brits were dong well, my old U.K. heritage kicked in with, well, Olympic speed.
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The Union Jack is in my blood, after all 
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British Women’s Rowers rejoice.
I think of all the miserable, cold and rainy mornings they get up so early to practice for this moment
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It makes me want to mix up a Pimms and go out for a good curry to celebrate.
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As for Oh Canada, another place I like to call home
I found myself quietly jumping up and down whenever we they got close to any medaling
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Rosie MacLennan wins Canada’s first (and only??) Gold medal for women’s trampoline.
Sadly, it was rather a poor showing for the Maple Leafers
but
they will be kicking derrieres and taking names in the next Winter Olympics people, so watch out eh?
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And then,
there were those athletes who it didn’t matter where they were from, you just wanted them to win
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Oscar Pistorius from South Africa
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One of my favourite moments
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The Jamaican sweep of the men’s 200m led by Usain Bolt
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David Rudisha of Africa breaks the World record for the men’s 800m
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Go Oscar
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Synchronised swimmers
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What was your favourite moment of the 2012 Olympics?!
Have they inspired you to get up and jangle the molecules a little more?
I’m thinking of rubbing some chalk onto my legs and ordering a fresh wheatgrass juice at “Blenders in the Grass” tomorrow
to have people mistake me for an athlete.
It could happen.
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OK, maybe not.
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Will you watching the closing ceremonies Saturday?
We’ll be watching in the comfort of our home once again.
omg is my husband happy to have his own remote back in his hand.
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See you there!
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oh, and you can thank Anouchka and her comment for this late addition photo;
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Hugo Parisi
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