Friday, July 27, 2012

The Parade of Nations


The Parade of Nations is being televised tonight from London.  The announcer said that 35 nations have never won an Olympic medal.  Tiny countries like Central African Republican or Mali have a hard time scraping the money together to fly anyone to London, to say nothing of training programs, coaches, and competitive experience.
I suppose it is disloyal, but when some tiny nation is competing against the U.S., I have to root for the tiny nation.  Actually, it is very American to root for the underdog.  Go Estonia.  Go Cameroon.  Go Fiji.

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