Olympic Timekeeping...!

Living in Olympic intervals.

We all count our age the same way. Every year we put another candle on the cake and increase the number slightly ( 39 and 1/4 etc ) Kind of like those ancient tree trunks they keep discovering. You know, where they do the carbon dating by counting the rings ( wrinkles ).

All well and good. Another year? Oh yes, we know, ha ha! Jolly good show and no big deal. It is only one year extra after all!

But, let's be honest. Please tell me that you also get blindsided by the Olympics? Summer and Winter Games alike.

It is almost like a punch in the stomach. Gosh, golly darn it...another four years have gone! As nice as the Olympics are ( and I have to say that I have been counting the days leading up to Sochi 2014 ) it is a very, very stark reminder that we have added another 4 circles to our age count.

Isn't it almost second nature to sit and ponder what we did 4 years ago and what life we lived between that Olympic interval? If you are anything like me, you can remember when you heard the announcement for Sochi 2014 back in the day. Nobody likes to think away 7 years.

These epic tournaments ( Olympic and World Cup ) are those pesky reminders that life keeps rushing by. Life keeps going. Life happens faster than we would like it to. Participants who were hailed as the new best hope are suddenly in their penultimate Games. These world class athletes must have incredibly thick skins. Imagine being called an over the hill athlete in your early to mid 30's ?

One bright spot on the horizon is that we sport-plebeians can take part in them as long as we like or can. Unlike those top athletes that are honed and practiced to perfection, we fortunately don't have a cut off age. As long as we can sit, watch and operate a remote control we are in the game...

As an aside to the Olympic committee: After these games, could we please just start re-using the many venues already built all over the world? All these new sites being created can't be good for our environment and hardly necessary if you consider all those White Elephants scattered around the globe.

Let's hope these games will only be games. Let's hope that the weather behaves and that there will be enough snow to give the correct backdrop to a Winter Olympic Game.

Biggi