What an amazing opening ceremony in Beijeing! Truely spectacular. China was able to draw on it's greatest national assest, its population and put on one hell of a show for the rest of the world. With political and environment turmoil circling the build up to the Olympics, it's no suprise that the negative aspect of reporting has transferred into stories that should atleast attempt to spin possitive messages.

It's only Day 2 of the Olympics and already I'm seeing such words as "disappointing" and "failure" thrown around in stories to do with athletes that finish much lower in their race/event than expected.

Give me a break! World Records are being smashed left, right and center. The bar has well and truely been lifted, pardon the pun. When there can only be one winner of ten, we take it upon ourselves to grind the other "losers" into the dirt. We forget that it is a sheer privledge to even be in the Olympics and that these competitors have been through so much to be where they are now.

Dissapointing. Sports journalism, you're leaving much to be desired and are currently running for bronze.