Olympics - Odds & Ends

Olympics - are you watching?

I'm watching. It's been a rough week at work and I've hardly touched my guitar in the past three days - but I have been watching the Olympics.

Everybody's heard about Apolo Ohno and Shaun White. And Lindsay Vonn, although her story is pretty incredible. (Bummer she fell on Thursday.)

Here's some odds and ends you may have missed...

Wednesday night, the Olympics beat American Idol for viewers. For the first time in over six years, something beat Idol. 30 million watched Vonn, Davis, and White win Gold while only 18 million watched Idol kick off a few more singers.

The snowboarder for Japan, Kazuhiro Kokubo, received public verbal flogging for his attire at the Olympics. He arrived wearing his uniform a little 'liberal' shall we say. Add his dreadlocks to the mix and Kokubo was officially declared a shame to his country. His father apologized. He apologized. It's pathetic! He's a snowboarder!!!! And a kid. Sometimes I think they are just a little too uptight in Japan...

I've also noticed they've cut down the human interest stories in favor of more sports. I'm all for that!

One of the 'curlers' was five months pregnant. As Jimmy Kimmel said, any sport where you can compete pregnant is NOT a sport...

USA hockey team is kicking butt and taking names. Showdown with Canada will be awesome.

And finally... men's skating. Okay, I'm just not gonna go there!!! Except that Evan Lysacek's win Thursday night was the first time since 1988 that a Russian hasn't won the event. Guess we were due...

What's your take on the Olympics so far? Any favorite moments?