T.C.'s Olympic Corner: I Believe This Is Annoying

Good Lord, could someone put an end to the 'I Believe' Olympic theme song.

I see myself muting a lot of the fake syrup the media feeds us. It's almost as if the media demands a "defied all odds" and "overcome obstacles" story. It feels forced.

Screw the media (especially the British press) and their pointlessness.

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Heard Freddie Coleman on ESPN sports ask "are the British disappointed because they haven't won that many medals?" I paraphrase this question from last week and at the time the Brits had 28 medals or so. They currently have 43. I don't know what's to be disappointed about. It's a good haul thus far. Even with the "homer" calls.

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I was going to do another "T.C. is better than (fill in the blank)" with this but decided against it.

Bill Simmons of ESPN/Grantland came up with this stupid line:
In the span of 12 short years, it was hard to say what changed more — the Olympics or us.

Butter knife. In eye.

In the span of 12 short (but long) years, it was hard (sometimes easy) to say (through a translator) what changed more (or less) - the Terrorists or us. Or them. Or you.

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Was Canada "robbed" in a 4-3 semi-final soccer loss to the U.S.A in added extra time?

Not really.

First off, allowing goals like they did off a corner kick is simply unforgivable. That's one problem. Second, we Canucks got a lot of calls our way. We're lucky Tancredi and a couple of others weren't carded off the field. Third, a penalty could have been called against Canada too.

However, that was a pretty cheesy call to make at that point in the game. I don't know if the ref warned the keeper (refs warn all the time) but rarely do they, if ever, call that infraction. The rest is cause and effect I guess. The ball hitting the arm of the defender is because of the call made by the ref. Even the hand ball call, I suppose, could be argued since there was no deliberate intent.

Canad had the lead three times. They should have shut that game down but didn't. End of story.

In my 30 plus years of watching and playing soccer never seen it called at a high level.

The Olympics, indeed sports, are filled with all sorts of controversial calls.

It's too bad it went down that way since it was one of the best games I've seen.

Both sides did very well. Canada needs to regroup and go claim the bronze against France. If they do, it will be Canada's first medal in team sports since 1936.