OT: Yo Quiero Olympics!
I don't know if people are taking the "no spoiler" advice to the extreme or not, but I'm surprised there has been no Olympics thread started yet today.
I was impressed by the your US archery team and glad that the Korean swimmer's disqualification was overturned. What Olympic sports have you been watching and what has interested you so far?
Peter Vanderkaay is our first Michigan medalist.
Your post didn't go anywhere, it's still here if you follow the link. The title was just changed so it was no longer ruining it for people who hadn't seen it or heard the news yet. And quit whining about it too. You broke the temporarily set up rules. You started a thread with a spoiler title and then didn't even have the decency to check up on it at all to realize people were (at one point) reasonably asking you the change the title before too many people saw it and got upset. Why would you start a thread if you had no intention on actually contributing to it anyways? And to top it off, you just said you haven't really been reading the blog that much anyways, so you have no frame of reference of what reasonable rules have been put in place since you were gone. There's a big difference between the blog getting "cranky" and people starting threads who really shouldn't because they're out of their element and don't really know what's going.
That being said, welcome back and I hope you ease yourself back in to contributing regularly much more slowly from here on out.
They're not really temporary rules. For big non-college events like this, the custom is to never post spoilers in the title.
I loved watching Sam Mikulak doing gymnastics when it was broadcast last night. Went online today and found he's actually a Michigan athlete. Made me like him even more. He and John Orozco are two of my favorites from what I've seen so far.
The Phelps not even medalling thing didn't surprise me. He didn't look like he wanted to be there. Lochte just wanted it more. But I will never understand why NBC feels the need to interview athletes after a huge personal failure. Of course they feel like shit, why do you need to ask?