Unless you’ve been living in a world where you have no knowledge that the summer Olympics is on and can’t see any of it, you’ll know that the summer Olympics is on and may have seen some of it. That, by the way is summer in China and not this strange cross between all four seasons that we have in Britain at the moment. The Olympics this year is being held in the Peoples’ Republic of China which is in itself a contradiction in terms. The media in this country kicked up a fuss when the little girl who sang at the opening ceremony was later found to be miming to a song which was recorded by a girl who the Chinese deemed to be not pretty enough. It’s not like that doesn’t happen in this country as well. There is an unwritten rule that you cannot get a recording contract unless you’re attractive, with the possible exception of Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud.
If you aren’t aware, the Olympics is an occasion to celebrate sport and bring together people of all nations. Oh and also for America and China to try to outdo each other in terms of gold medals so as to make a political statement that one country is better than the other like kids in a playground. A lot of people criticise China for its repressive regime. In Britain it is totally different. We have the opportunity to vote for political parties that are all the same and hence it won’t make a difference who we vote for. We have a choice of who we want to carry out exactly the same policies and that’s democracy. And British Governments are corrupt in a nice way, not like those Chinese rulers.
So far in the Olympics, we have had the gymnastics which is where 14 year old girls with men’s bodies jump about for a few years until their body packs up at the age of 20 and they spend the rest of their life in an attempt to have a period. Sometimes I wish I was female, especially now that the “Always” pad means I can have a happy period! We have also had various shooting events at the Olympics which for some reason the Americans seem particularly good at - though admittedly they do have to fine tune their training away from shooting people towards a much smaller target instead.
The swimming events have also been taking place lately and new world records are being set in nearly every race. It is predicted that by London 2012 all swimming world records will eventually reach zero seconds and the race will then be on to complete a race in negative time.