Olympics: Does it inspire you or what?

How many of you have been inspired by the sheer human drama of the Olympics? People who have trained hard to become world champions in their chosen sport?

Michael Phelps achieved an unprecedented 8 goal medals in one Olympic games (14 golds, 2 bronze in total). Dara Torres who has competed in 5 olympics and is 41 years old as she competes in Beijing 2008 and has won 3 silvers in swimming at this Olympics. Eric Shanteau competed despite having testicular cancer.

That's just 3 stories form swimming. There are many more.

Just watching and hearing the stories inspire us. The question is, does it inspires us just mentally or do we do something about it?

Olympics... Liu Xiang

"I just feel so sorry. Because there were so many people supporting me, I told myself I had to run, but I just couldn't do it"
Those words were uttered by Liu Xiang, a hero in China because of his gold medal winning feat in the hurdles in Athens in 2004.
This time around, injury has forced him to pull out and he was not able to run. China was sad they could not see their hero run in Beijing 2008.

Isn't it sad when you've trained for many years and because of injury you have to pull out of one of the biggest stages in your life?
I feel for him. It's painful and heart breaking.

However, let's look at another person in history. In Athens 2008, a 14-year old swimmer from South Korea by the name of Park Taehwan was disqualified from the heats in swimming because of a false start. He had to live with that for four years before Beijing. Imagine, not even being able to swim because of a mistake you made. At the Olympics!

Then, four years later, at Beijing, Park has won the gold in the 400m freestyle, the first swimming Gold for South Korea. Also, he won the silver in the 200m freestyle, losing only to the now inimitable, Michael Phelps.

Failure isn't the end. As a matter of fact, it might be a beginning of something. In life, we mess up, we fail or we fall short at times. It doesn't mean the end...

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When will this cough go away???

Nuff said...

Malaysia's hope for a gold medal...

Malaysians everywhere were hoping for more... many must have watched in hope.

However, Lee Chong Wei faltered against Lin Dan in the finals of the Olympics men's singles badminton final. He didn't get anything going in his own game. Nevertheless, a great achievement to make it into the finals.

p/s: still coughing, hence the lack of creativity... :)

Creativity and Coughing

Still coughing!!! Arrgghh!!!
I've also discovered that creativity and coughing are inversely proportional.

The more you cough, the less your creativity. The less you cough, the more your creativity.

Still coughing!

Cough cough cough!!! This is tough, not being able to speak properly for 11 days already! First a sore throat and now a persistent cough! Sigh! When am I going to get well? I miss my days of no coughs and no sore throats!