The Five Ring Circus

So far, the true north strong and free isn't showing their strength. Day 5 of the Olympics, and not a single Canadian foot has been on a podium. I understand how the States and China are winning so many medals. They've got such a huge mass of people to choose from to send to the Olympics (compared to Canada). And it sort of helps that China recruits its athletes when they are pre-tween and train them to be olympic robots. The half-million incentive doesn't hurt either.

I don't think Canada should do this, however. I don't want to pay more tax so the olympians could get a huge payout.

But I still wonder why countries I've never heard of like Azerbaijan, Georgia (I thought it was a US state until its recent conflict with Russia) and Togo (which I though was the "house brand" of The Bay) are getting on the podium and we are not.

I also wonder the rationalle behind deciding the events that are in the Olympics.

Shooting is a sport? I thought people went to jail for that.
Equestrian? The horses are doing most of the work.
Boxing? I thought the Olympics promote peace.

And where do you draw the line?

There's baseball, basketball, and football but not cricket.
There's tennis, table tennis and badminton but not squash and raquetball.
There's wrestling, judo and taekwondo but not karate.

What about more watersports? It IS the SUMMER Olympics afterall.
Surfing, wakeboarding, waterskiing?

My last beef is the coverage. You have to be a raccoon or a bat to watch it because all of the good stuff is on at 3am. All I get to see is basktball (yay, I can see that anytime[as if I'd want to]), and beach volleyball (which I only think is in there to boost amount of people watching it by making the girls wear tiny outfits).

Well, go Canada go! Let's not get skunked!