Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Jamie Lynn and Maddie Briann

Ok, so everyone probably knows about the whole Jamie Lynn Spears Scandal with her boyfriend Casey Aldridge. We all thought she might be different then her crazyhouse sister, Britney (or Brittney, or Brittnay or Brittnie or however her freaking name is spelled), but no, she went and got herself preggers. Then, she actually kept the baby and named it the dumbest name in the world. Now normally, I don't like to judge, but you gave the baby a freaking nickname as an actual name! Seriously, Maddie Briann. Not Madison or Madeline. No, Maddie. Then, Jamie Lynn keeps going on and on and on about how she's going to be ther perfect soccer mom. Who actually WANTS to call themselves a soccer mom? I mean seriously! Except at the end of the article, she starts to say, well, no. I don't want to be a soccer mom, I want to be a softball mom because soccer doesn't really get played around here. So then why the crap would you call yourself a soccer mom???? Yeah, Zoey 101, just became Soccer Mom 101. Eww.

Here's a clip on Jamie Lynn before the baby was born

Old People in the Olympics

Yeah, there's another lady who's in the Olympics for a sport that's even more rigorous than swimming: gymnastics. She's 33, and her name is Oksana Chusovitina. Yeah, I know is one of those names that you hope you never have to say out loud, but she's from Germany, the land of impossible names. Just kidding Russia is the land of impossible names, Germany is the land of really hard names. Anyways, shes been in 4 Olympic games, 10 worlds, and has won 8 medals on one event--more than any other gymnast ever. Not only that, but she started competing at the senior level in 1989, which basically is before almost all of her competitors were born. Oh yeah, she also came back after having a kid!

Her vaulting ability is renouned across the world. She does not preform yurchenkos (the one where it looks like the person is doing a flip flop onto the vault), but rather a tsukahara (it looks like she does a round off on the vault). She has quite a few moves named after her, but after 20 years at such a competative level, you'd hope that she would. Still, like I said about Dara Torres, props for working your freaking butt off after having a kid and being like twice as old as your other competitors.

Old People in the Olympics: Swimming

So, as you all probably know, the olympics are starting in less than a month. Of course, there's like a bazillion awesome athletes. Some of them incredibly young (not really because we're the same age), like Shawn Johnson, and some really old. Yeah, I'm talking like in the 40's. Can you seriously be a world class athlete at the age of 41? Apparently. Her name is Dara Torres, shes a swimmer and has been to 5 olympics. She has a kid for god sake, and she can still swim faster than all of us. Some of her teammates were born AFTER her third olympic debut. Yeah, she was born in 1992. That makes her 25 years older than her teammates. All I gotta say, is props dude. You must be some sort of superhuman to be competing with people my age and beating them.