Thoughts on the Olympics — “Not Something We’ve Been Too Concerned About”

“One minute, elation, the next minute, despair.  What happened?”

“Well, um, it was just, we, we didn’t change over in the right zone on the track.  It’s really hard, when you’re going that speed, and I’m just focusing on Jess’s wheel, you know, it’s so easy, if Jess moves up just slightly, I just go….  Um, that’s what happened.

“We’ve had, we’ve never really had an illegal change before, so it’s not something we’ve really been too concerned about in the past, but it’s just one of those things that happened, you know.  It’s not Jess’s fault, it’s not my fault, we’re both partly to blame, really….”
Interview on the BBC (available to UK readers only)

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Sound and Fury

The video below is not merely a hilarious sporting moment, it’s a great illustration.

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Thoughts on the Olympics — He Wanted to Get Caught

Schwazer suggested he actually wanted to get caught because the guilt was psychologically devastating.
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“But Then, You’re a Man”

I proved today that if you are going to engage in a battle of wits, you should exercise care in your choice of combatant, lest someone “clean your clock.”

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“This Man Receiveth Sinners”

My series on Luke got put on hold because I didn’t preach at all for a while (whooping cough can be really, really nasty, if that was what it was, and if that isn’t what it was, then whatever it was can be really, really nasty :)) and then there were a couple other things I needed to preach.  But I’m back to Luke, and yesterday I preached on Luke 15.

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A Koala is Just a Koala

“Sometimes a Koala is just a Koala, and a cigar is just a cigar, and a verse is just what it says.”

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Thoughts on the Olympics — Faith, Focus, Finish

I didn’t want to let those three guys down, or the team down, so I just ran on it. It hurt so bad.

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