Closing Ceremony Thoughts

• Where do they find the children to be the “snowflake kids”? Are they high ranking officials kids? The kids with the highest grades in Beijing? Either way I’m assuming they were pulled out of school for at least a month to practice 12 hours a day to make it perfect as possible.

• Do you think Elena Meyers Taylor was excited to be next to the oiled up shirtless guy or was more thinking “some of us won multiple medals and aren’t here for thirst tweets so…please don’t get body grease on my jacket, and if your toes fall off from frostbite (or your wiener) please keep that away from me as well”.

• I’m laughing out loud at the announcer and all the dancers trying to get the athletes to take their seats and making almost no progress. Good to know if I have to interview to become one of them, I’ll be sure to highlight my crowd control experience. “Yes, I’m very good at waving my hands in a non threatening way and bounching towards drunk athletes to get them to gradually make their way to their seats.”

• Was the mayor of Beijing supposed to stand ridiculously far away? Did he just want to have a dramatic hand-off of the flag? I kind of hope he’s one of those people that actually loves social distancing and is using COVID as an excuse to skip social functions and watercooler talk at work.

• The two kids hugging the globe…no way they aren’t going to get bullied for that. I wish they went rogue and started battling with the ball for who could get it to one side of the arena first. Start a little friendly rivalry between Milan and Cortina.

• Overall, solid closing games. They are usually much tamer and boring than the opening ceremonies and they definitely didn’t break the mold with this one.