Olympics - Why Not Every Year?

What’s up people?

By the time you read this week’s blog post, we will officially be entering the final week of our month long RAMADAN. So in the words of Damian Marley & Nas in their collaboration “Only the Strong Will Continue”. We are now in week two of the Olympics and still no Olympic medal for Nigeria (NWO)! A country with a population of over a hundred million people and all we have had to settle for is watching young Nigerian male and female athletes represent other countries and make them proud. I just love how countries like Great Britain dehumanize African immigrants but can’t wait to parade the same group up and down inside the Olympic stadium in hopes of winning the country a medal. Let me get of that soap box and salute the FANTASTIC Usain Bolt. Brother you are truly a LEGEND and as an avid track and field sports fan your scintillating display on the world’s largest stage was simply EPIC.    

Ok people; let me get focused…

At this point I don’t know if am more excited about the anticipation of the end of this brutal hot summer or the beginning of all the fall sports as in NFL football, College Football and my favorite English Premiere League football. I do know however that I am going to miss the Olympic spirit of one community, athletes giving it their all and the joy that comes with along victory.

You know as I come to think about it a little more, the Olympics should be held every summer. I mean why must we wait four year intervals to see spectacular performances the likes of Usain Bolt, Michael Phelps and off another 100 point beat down of Nigerian basketball by team USA.

I am a sucker for the back stories that come along with the Olympics too. I heard this past week from my brother that Usain Bolt has a sponsorship with PUMA that requires the company to fix up schools for young kids in his home country. Then who did not root and cheer on the South African 400meter double amputee sprinter who advanced into the semi finals against able body runners and the fantastic sportsmanship at the end of his race with the would be Olympic winner from Granada.

The one thing the Olympics did also prove was that it is not immune NEGATIVITY and HATERS like the rest of the world. I mean why did they have to go after the young African-American female gymnast and the grooming of her hair? Why did trashy gossip outlets feel a need to share with the rest of the world the financial status of the families who support their children to see them achieve their life long dreams? And the one that really had me perplexed was the ripping of female sprinter LoLo Jones who was crushed by the New York Times a very reputable news outlet as being over-rated and the product of beauty over substance. In the famous words of R&B legend R. Kelly; “Haters Gonna Hater and Ballers Gonna Ball”.

See you in Four Years.