Remember Athens 2004 ?

We are just a few weeks away from the 2009 NCAA college football season. Early August ,
and i get primed for some college ball. I really don't watch pro football, since the Rams moved to
St Louis...so its safe to say that the NFL is non-addictive ?
As for major league baseball, i can't watch a game on tv without falling asleep. Too boring.
I remember tuning into some Cubs games, just to hear Harry . Harry was good.
For all the years since, I used to listen to the World Series on AM radio , back when i carried
a radio. But i cannot watch the games on television...
August 2008 we had the Beijing Olympics , and that was my daily and nightly fill of sports.
I do listen to the Wildcats and other PAC-10 games on yahoo sports, when possible....
and several Big-12 games, which are the regional option for the networks.
So my last really big sports program was Le Tour De France ..it was on Versus
tv network daily, and repeated 2-3 per day. I hardly missed any repeats...
Last night, i'm sitting here, and i really want to watch some sports =
and i realized i have several Olympic games on VHS. You remember tapes ?
My tapes are labeled rather generic, and i just grabbed one that the title
'2004 olympics' , and it was the first day of competition from Athens .
It started off with a swim , and then some extensive womens gymnastics..
and apart from Svetlana Horkina, none of the names were familiar to me ?
None of the american gymnasts stood out in my memory. Nothing like
Atlanta or Beijing.. 2004 my biggest fascination was the US womens softball team.
After nearly 1 hour of gym, we finally got into some other sports;
Michael Phelps ,,well that name is pretty high-profile these days.
How about Misty May-Treanor, and Kerri Walsh ? They were there also.
The Athens games were super,,but mostly i remember the news stories about
Greece, spending billions of dollars, and what about if the venues would be ready in time.
Thank you, BBC. I did hear Despina Vandis Gia in one gymnast routine, and the crowd
clapped along with the music. The gymnast was Ukrainian, and they had a great team in 2004.
Through day 1, the Romanian women ruled the gymnastics world. The americans were
making mistakes on each aparatus, it was an amazing stroke of bad luck for those women.
But was so real to me, was the 'old' 10 point system of judging. The new system is still
a grand mystery, and probably will ruin my interest in the sport.

Somewhere in there, i decided to take a nap, and let the tape run through the 6 full hours
i had recorded. I awoke to the Netherlands Mens Volleyball team 'upsetting' the Russians.
Tonight, the US Gymnastics Championships 2009 will start their third day;
and the action is on a cable tv channel called 'Universal Sports' or something.
It's not on my cable line-up, but it is available through a webcast on their site.

Incidently, the Wildcats will play Central Michigan on September 5th.
Can't wait.