For the last few days I have been watching hours upon hours of Olympic coverage.  We did not leave the house all day Saturday or all day Sunday because of the games, of course it did not help that it was over a hundred degrees here in North Texas.  During this time we watched beach volleyball, cycling, basketball, swimming and of course gymnastics, the track and field events will be coming up soon and I am quite excited about that.

However, as exciting as watching the men’s four by one hundred swim relay was, the Olympics will never be able to achieve the dreams of French nobleman Pierre Fredy, Baron de Coubertin.  He had hoped that the spirit of unity would solve world problems such as hunger and war, sadly this will never be the case.  There was war before the Olympics began on 08/08/08 and there will be war after they end, ironically on the day of the best opening ceremony ever a new war started when Russia invaded Georgia.

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SI’s senior columnist Frank Deford is one of my favorite writers. Not only he knows sports inside out but he is a terrific writer as well.

It’s always a pleasure to read what he thinks on any topic.

Deford’s recent column on Olympics again got me thinking about the whole hoopla around the Olympic torch, the Tibet issue, etc.

First off, did you know that the Olympic torch itself was invented by the Nazis, in 1936?! I certainly did not know that.

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