13 Things That Happen During The Olympics

1. The Opening Ceremonies make you emotional because they are beautiful.

Like, seriously. The world is coming together. There is music and dancing and all thing arts. The athletes are moved to tears (like this guy from Bolivia...dude, I'm crying with you). We are proud of our country and our athletes, but we realize that we are all human. We are all one.

2. You come up with brilliant ideas to make the TV coverage even BETTER.

Let's start a petition to get Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as commentators for an event. It doesn't have to be something like gymnastics or swimming. I'd settle for cycling or even rowing. But I mean, think about it...look at them. It'd be COMEDY.

3. You think about your amazing athletic abilities.

Katie Ledecky may be 19 and setting world records in Rio, but I can run to my fridge for ice cream at lightning speed during commercial breaks so...

4. You get to hear athletes respond to their success with humility.

Exhibit A: Steele Johnson and David Boudia. Keeping it classy.

5. You get awesome and hilarious pictures trending on Twitter.

#PhelpsFace never gets old.

6. Gymnastics inspires you to start gymnastics right now so you can make it to Tokyo in four years.

But then you realize you have no talent and just look like this.

7. You start to get really invested in the lives of all the athletes.

And therefore you find yourself calling Michael Phelps the "cutest little thing" when he's literally a 31 year old man who is 6' 4".

8. The TV consumes your life.

I may have a million and ten things to do, but the Olympics are still on TV. Therefore, I am still on my couch.

9. Events get renamed.

Like the individual medley in swimming is supposedly "butterfly-backstroke-breaststroke-freestyle"???? Well it looks more like "mature caterpillar-windmill-frog-ice cream scooping" to me.

10. Athletes get renamed.

"Nicknamed" is the correct term, I suppose. If you haven't nicknamed a couple of athletes, who are you? Like the women's swimming team...Dorado is totally Dorito and Ledecky is The Ducky.

11. You further involve yourself in the events.

For example, I play my own music for the men's floor routines because otherwise they're basically just dancing to an awkward silence (major deduction for that).

12. You discover the presidents of the athletes' fan clubs.

I'm not sure who is announcing swimming, but I'm 95.2% sure he's the president of the Michael Phelps fan club.

13. And best of all, the athletes moved to tears bring you to tears.

Like Simone Manuel, who just couldn't believe she had won the gold.

And Aly Raisman when she realized she'd won silver.

And Ryan Held, who just couldn't hold it together when on the podium. And just LOOK at his sweet teammates.

And one of those teammates, Michael Phelps, really gets it. Even 22 golds later.

Keep on making us proud and making us cry, Olympians. Oh, how I love the games.

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