Hello all I’ve been gone for a over a month now, but I needed to take some time for myself and just relax. The flip side of competing is that there is a point where you just need to relax and get away from the stresses of your environment. Some call it a vacation, but in track and field there is no real break and mine is over.
During this time away I watched the Olympic Games and I must say that I wasn’t all that impressed with the coverage of the games, but the thing that made it worse is that the field events really didn’t get any airtime. Why? Field event athletes work just as hard to go to the Olympics and represent their country, yet besides the men’s shot put, hammer, women’s high jump and the men’s and women’s pole vault I didn’t see any field events shown. Or were they shown at 4am when I was trying to get some sleep from staying up until 1am to watch the lack of events they had already shown?
Besides that what happened to TEAM USA??? Don’t get me wrong they had some bright spots, but man did some of them fold or what. Now I can’t talk because I didn’t make the team, and I’m not trying to be critical of anyone, but when you do make the team you are supposed to go out and perform and they just didn’t do it.