Olympic Notes, Week 2

A few thoughts on the 2004 Summer Games:

1) This afternoon, I actually felt a little sorry for Jim Lampley. He's hosting NBC's daytime coverage of the Olympics, and here's the events that he had to tease at the top of the show:

• Men's beach volleyball (between Spain and Brazil)
• Rowing
• Short-Track bicycling
• Synchronized swimming

And the guy had to sound excited about these events. He might as well have said "Today on our daytime Olympic coverage, all of the events that you don't care about, or even better, the events that people often mock."

2) Is there anything... anything... funnier about watching weightlifting than hearing the line "Fans, we've just seen a new world-record snatch?"