Quote Originally Posted by Ana View Post
It seems as though the overemphasis on the medal counts night after night fails to embody the spirit of the Olympics.

As much as I enjoy watching the Olympics as a tribute to exceptional human abilities, it is marred by the focus on scores, medals and superiority complexes. I often scoff at the dismal commentary.

I think the spirit of the games was very well represented with footage of the sidelines. During some of the girls gymnastics, when one gal was done with a routing, the various girls from different countries would all hug or greet their competitors while waiting for scores. I thought that was very cool.

Listening to the basketball dream team guys talk about how they finally learned that being on Team USA was about being part of something much bigger and more important than an individual star..... awesome.