What I learned from the Olympics.

1. You can win a very, very close race that you had to actually come back to win at the last second and the announcers will still give most of the credit to the guy who swam a different leg of the relay.
2. Scoring systems can be a little screwy.
3. I will miss baseball.  
4. It's hard to stay in the white box on the floor even when you've spent years training and competing in one to prepare for this moment.
5. It can also be hard to run between the lines.
6. I will root for the Ethiopians in the long distance running events.
7. After running for about twenty minutes, the Ethiopian runner with find another gear and sprint the last lap.
8. Batons can be hard to hold on to.
9. I should have been more serious about badminton.
10. Political ads don't belong on Olympic broadcasts.
11. You can watch endless hours of Olympic coverage and still fail the quiz and be told that you need to watch more.
12. Sometimes the broadcasters will just leave you to assume who won.
13. When the broadcast is supposed to end at 12:30 a.m. it might just end at 12:45 a.m. instead.
14. No score is worth falling down dead over.
15. Sometimes, when the broadcast is scheduled to end at 5:00 p.m., it ends at 5:00 p.m., even if the game isn't over yet.
16. It'll break your heart, but you just can't keep from watching it.
17. You can fall and still win a medal.
18. The more the announcers say how great someone is, the more likely I am to find reasons not to like them (especially when said announcers won't shut up about them and push their teammates to the side while they do it.)
19. Fake smiles are creepy.
20. I will latch on to a sport that I have no way of ever seeing again until the next Olympics.