Today is the last day of the Olympics, and I write right now, the closing ceremonies are currently going on. I follow a lot of the Olympic athletes on Twitter and many of them are heading home, have finally landed, or have decided to stay for the ceremonies. The 30th Olympiad was great! Hosted by a great country and all the events were super exciting. Some were unexpected and some were so expected and mind blowing. I watched many different events such as field hockey, volleyball, handball, swimming, gymnastics, and the most important football (soccer for the Americans). Sadly I wasn't able to watch the finals for any both the men or women's finals because I had school the day of the women's finals and I had a scrimmage I had to go to for the men's finals! OF course when I came home I found out the results right away. I was soooo happy for the USWNT! They were able to retain their gold medal by beating Japan 2-1. Carli Loyd scored both goals and Hope Solo (from the highlights, replays, and everything I read on Twitter) played a really great game making multiple important saves. For the men's finals it was Mexico vs. Brazil and the score was also 2-1 with the Mexican side taking the gold medal. Brazil was the favorite because of all the big names like Oscar, Neymar, etc. But Mexico brought the gold home and this is their first time winning a medal in Olympic soccer. Not bad, not bad at all.
The medal race between China and the USA were really close. Each day or two the country in the lead would change. But near the end of the competition the USA took over. I mean took over. You can see the picture for yourself. The USA dominated the Olympics. America may be known for it's fast food restaurants and obese issue, but when we play sports, we take them seriously.
Sad that the Olympics are over, BUT football season is about to begin really soon. Most club's pre-seasons are over by now and everyone is getting ready for their first league games. The most recent major pre-season game was the FA Community Shield where Manchester City (current Premier League winners) took on Chelsea (current FA Cup winners). Chelsea were the first to draw blood as Torres opened the scoring (A new season and a fresh start from the success of Euro 2012, hope all goes well for him). But Yaya Toure equalized very soon after. Ivanovic got a red card for a reckless tackle sending him off and leaving Chelsea to 10 men. During the second half Tevez and Nasri were able to put City up 3-1. Chelsea fought back with a deflection from Pantilomon which gave Bertrand a goal to put the score to 3-2. That wasn't enough though as the whistle blew and Manchester City were able to grab the Community Shield. This is only the beginning and I can't wait till the EPL and La Liga start! EXCITED.
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