The 2012 Olympics have been a God send for me…….we have one of my favorite sports handball, soccer, which American women are playing almost flawless ball, fencing, which the US has a rising star , a 14 year girl, Lee Kiefer, who will be a super star…that is if she does not discover men….I have seen what that can do to an up and coming star………and the skeet shooter from the US…..she had a 99/100 score which ties Olympic all time record….there is also a 16 year old table tennis phenom that we will hear much about in the future…….so far we are doing pretty good but China is ahead of us in medal count…..but our forte is yet to come…..b/ball and track and field and swimming……..

That was my take on the games in the early days in case my reader had other things to do……but now I have a question……..Who decides what sports will be included in the games?

I mean come on!  I used to wonder  why badminton is included but…..circumcised swimming?  (Pun intend, not a mistake).  Should not the sports reflect the sports that are actually sports?  If you are gonna have circumcised swimming, why not fishing or golf?

Why not darts?  I mean there are more people in the world that sling darts than participate in circumcised swimming……now I see we have a circumcised diving event….and yet darts is ignored…..why?  At no point in my area in the 90’s there were about a 100 teams participating in the different leagues and we are lucky if we have 500,000 people living here….but yet badminton gets to go to the Olympics….why?

I guess darts are out because they are most associated with pubs and such and God forbid that the Olympics be associated with such riff raff……..after all the Olympics seem to be more about marketing than the sport, because we know thrilling we Americans think a dancing horse is….amusing maybe, but a sport?