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Olympics Coverage

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China beat Serbia in women’s volleyball, but what matters is Serbia covered. Also all that crap about giving it your all, and the spirit of the games. A self consciousness about farting in front large audiences prevented me from going into weightlifting. Admittedly there were some other reasons, most involving my arms, but I attribute it to that one. Fencing draws you in because sword fighting sounds entertaining, and it probably is, but two people poking each other with a bendy wire is not. There is women’s rhythmic gymnastics but no men’s rhythmic gymnastics, so it‘s fair to say sex discrimination prevented me from going into rhythmic gymnastics. I suppose if there were men’s rhythmic gymnastics my self consciousness about farting in front of large audiences might come into play as well, but until then I will blame discrimination. There too many kinds of swimming but not enough kinds of running. I suspect table tennis participants are looked down upon because their sport...