Rains and time lapse are now settling the dust from the 'Rio Olympic Games.' We can now analyze, scrutinize and speculate regarding 'the games' impact and fallout. I hear sports' gurus suggesting we've seen the best ever of swimming and gymnastics in the persons of Michael Phelps and Simone Biles. That might be difficult to refute. Perhaps the same is true about Japan's male gymnast, Kohei Uchimura.
Post Olympic Games financial endorsement contracts always intrigue us and it appears obvious that the aforementioned stalwarts are headed for huge pay offs. Of course, USA swimmer, Ryan Lochte 'crapped too close to the house' therefore speculation has 'Peck's Bad Boy' losing millions of bucks because he cannot embrace success with humility or behave well when consuming Vodka.
Would not Louis Armstrong's song, 'Wonderful World' ring proud if Abby D'Agostino, Nikki Hamblin and Sam Kendricks were also in a position to 'cash-in' on their respective Olympic performances? You'll recall 5,000 meter runners D'Agostino of the United States and New Zealand's Hamblin assisted each other across the finish line after each suffered falling. And then the moment of ultimate patriotism showed when American pole vaulter, Second Lieutenant Kendricks suddenly stopped his approach sprint with pole in hands when he heard his country's National Anthem playing. Ah, but we know 'good news' fades like the extinguished smoke from the Olympic flame.
Strange arrangements here on planet earth...our sport heroes receive millions of dollars to entertain us, often with less than stellar performances while nurses care for our sick, school teachers educate our children, firemen and policemen risk their lives to save us and those folks might realize a forty/sixty thousand dollar yearly income.
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