Quinn’s Brain, aka QBrain

As far as I am concerned they are. The swimming is done, except for the 10k, and the swimming is all I care about.

In four years time, I hope they take some steps to improve the swimming coverage. Rowdy Gaines either needs to accurately announce what is going on, or NBC needs to publish the rules to Rowdy bingo. Andrea Kremer, please ask better questions or just let the swimmers warm down. NBC as a whole could try to cover someone other than Phelps. Phelps is great, but everything does not have to be about Phelps. There are a couple dozen US swimmers who will medal and a dozen US coaches. Certainly there is some variety in perspective on the sport in general and the Olympics games itself that would be interesting to viewers from this contingent. Fuck, ask the basketball players what they thought of the swimming. I guarantee that will entertain.

This was a punishing week for me. I am now nice and cranky, but not because swimming is over. Since there has been Olympic BS going on since Sunday, I have not gotten a full nights sleep in a week. It is amazing that you can get up at 4:30am, go to work all day and still have time to watch 18 hours of TiVo’ed olympic swimming.

One last rant. If you happen to work for the Times as an editorial writer and you don’t know shit about swimming, do not try to discredit swimming and the accomplishments of Phelps. How can you claim that butterfly and free style are the same thing, but a track runner can’t do a 100M, 200M and 400M? Those are totally different races? Have you heard of Usain Bolt?

Happily, I won’t have to hear moron’s opinions on swimming for another 4 years.