{"id":2787,"date":"2004-09-04T04:40:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-04T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/04\/olympic-commentary\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T08:33:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T16:33:02","slug":"olympic-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/04\/olympic-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10308,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/aurorastudios.typepad.com\\\/timsplace\\\/2004\\\/09\\\/olympic_games.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051221182047\\\/http:\\\/\\\/aurorastudios.typepad.com:80\\\/timsplace\\\/2004\\\/09\\\/olympic_games.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 02:57:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 14:37:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 14:37:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Many, <em>many<\/em> thanks to Tim for <a href=\"http:\/\/aurorastudios.typepad.com\/timsplace\/2004\/09\/olympic_games.html\" title=\"Tim's Place: Olympic Games\">finding this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Sometimes, the best part about the Olympics isn&#8217;t the events or the athletes themselves, but the commentary&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weightlifting commentator: &#8220;This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Dressage commentator: &#8220;This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Paul Hamm, Gymnast: &#8220;I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Boxing Analyst: &#8220;Sure there have been injuries,and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Softball announcer: &#8220;If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Basketball analyst: &#8220;He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn&#8217;t like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>At the rowing medal ceremony: &#8220;Ah, isn&#8217;t that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Soccer commentator: &#8220;Julian Dicks is everywhere. It&#8217;s like they&#8217;ve got eleven Dicks on the field.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Tennis commentator: &#8220;One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them&#8230;Oh my God, what have I just said?&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, the best part about the Olympics isn&#8217;t the events or the athletes themselves, but the commentary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,148],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}