Beijing Olympics Charades

So my first post what else could it be about than the Beijing Olympics and the controversies that have propelled these Olympics into the history books as one of the most remarkable ever.

Not only are athletes breaking timed records, no, they are also breaking frequency records. Michael Phelps for example has broken the record of most medals in one Olympic tournament, as well as Usain Bolt winning both the 100m and 200m respectively. Where are all these records coming from? For years it has been silent and only a few records were occasionally broken, now all of a sudden records are being broken left and right. China for example, China is half way through the Olympics and they are at 45 Gold medals whilst in 2004 they only had 39 gold medals at the END of the Olympics!!! Also in 2004 China had 63 medals in total at the end and now half way through they have above 80!! Where is this sporting excellence coming from? And yes we have all seen the TV shows where China is drilling their 6 year olds into sporting robots, but that does not constitute all their athletes of the older generation also becoming sporting icons. To understand what I am getting at I will give you a small background on China, their culture, government, and their reputation:

- China is officially called the People's Republic of China.
- China is also formally still a communist state and has a dictatorial government.
although regulations are not as strict in China as the regulations in other totalitarian states (North Korea for example) China's government still controls most of the means to communicate with the outside world, it blocks websites, sensors TV broadcasting, and any other form of communication that would allow any of the citizens to obtain a negative view of China and its government, now even though this is slightly over stated all of this does happen, and china does still control its people.

Now back to the Olympics, we are all enjoying a sports event that is being held in a totalitarian state. Ironically sports events are known for the judges' unbiased judgement and control. However how do we know that doping controllers are given free reign in China to test the people? To what extend can we trust a nation that has tried to embellish truths before? The simple answer is not simple: not to a very large extend. However being trusting people that want to get on with our lives and enjoy sports we gave china a chance to prove them. And they have!! The opening ceremony was brilliant, amazing stunning, and the cute little girl singing, oh sorry lip syncing, did a good job at it. The fireworks were also spectacular, fake! But nonetheless spectacular. This makes me think.... a country is trying to impress so bad that it is shutting down its economy for the good of the sportsmen and women, but however it is deceiving us in a way that I don't believe is good. It took the rest of the world a few days to find out the deceptions, and at first we were convinced that the Chinese just did their best until we found out they faked it, could this not also be the case with the Chinese sportsmen and women? All of a sudden China is a fantastic unbeatable nation even though it was simply outclassed by give or take 40 medals four years ago? This is what I believe to be extremely controversial about the Beijing Olympics, in the sense that the Chinese are taking over all the events (and they have every right to win) but there is no subtle advance in their winnings, some facts:
2004: 63 Medals TOTAL of which 32 gold
2008 half way through: 81 Medals of which 45 gold!!
To me it seems like there is a slight discrepancy there.
Now I could go on about China's advance and irregularities, but it would bore you immensely and we are all to infatuated by the Olympics to give a correct and unbiased view of the results. by the above I am not in any way attempting to undermine the Chinese, or their sports excellence I was simply pointing out that China has advanced at an unusual pace, and I find it odd they do so well on their own soil, I mean everyone generally is better on home soil but china has gotten 150% better gold medal-wise and who knows if china receives 65 gold medals at the end it will have performed 2 times better than four years ago, wow, that's either amazing, or a sign of deception. I am impartial in this, whether china wins or not, I support good sportsmanship, exciting matches and events, and the Dutch.

Now on to other individual sportsmen that have caused controversy:
First off Usain Bolt. This guy is the bullet of the tournament, he runs so fast it amazed all of us. He qualified for the finals with ease, and won the finals in a new world record of 9.69. Now, who has ever heard of this Jamaican guy? He came out of nowhere and schooled everyone, even the most famous runners. People expected Tyson Gay to win the 100m, he was beaten early on, but Bolt qualified with a fantastic time. Bolt has only been running the 100m for a year, changing from longer distances to focus on the shorter ones. He has a body antithetical to those of sprinters, and yet he manages to come out of the starting blocks and beat everyone in the first 20m already, ridiculous. What did the Jamaican coach think? :
Coach: "so you have one year experience?"
Bolt: "yes sir"
Coach: "and you are 1.90m tall?"
Bolt: "yes Sir"
coach: "and everything else speaks against you that you would not be fit for a sprinter?"
Bolt: "yes sir"
Coach: "Perfect, you’re in."

Come on!! The coach must have had some kind of assurance!! This is total BS; an inexperienced athlete runs a new world record. There has to be some kind of drug that he is taking in order to win, it’s a drug not yet known about, but it will be soon, and he will get busted. He can live the victory now, but he will have to return his medals soon, if not soon in 8 years like the American athlete, she admitted after 8 years. It cheating and its wrong, it ruins the sport.

Now on to Phelps. Rumor has it that he did not win the 100m Butterfly for men.
To commence, Phelps is a fantastic athlete, having worked literally his entire childhood and pissing away all the years important to a young man’s social life by training this guy has become the most accomplished and rewarded athletes in the world. The theory about Phelps does not bother me nor does it concern me very much. Phelps won 8 Gold medals, never accomplished before, and even if he didn't win the 100m Butterfly he still set 7 world records in one Olympic tournament which has also not been done before. He has literally worked his entire life to get where he is and he is only 23.

My theory is though that there is drugs that reduces the muscle fatigue and lets the athletes perform 100%, for which they pay the price later. I am quite sure that Bolt is on these kind of drugs. Now, I would not surprise me if Phelps was on the same kind of drug because this guy had so many races in only a few days any normal athlete would have collapsed long time ago. So either he is super human, or he’s on drugs too. But in today accomplishment driven world, which athlete is not on drugs? I think one of the only clean tournaments would be a high school sports day, perhaps even then kids would test positive.

That was my lengthy first entrance; I hope you enjoyed it, please leave a comment and let me know what I need to change/improve. And also leave a comment to discuss the Beijing Olympics Charades.

-Rogers Opinion