LJ Idol Presents:

Now that Climbing is an Olympic sport, both my daughters participate in sports that have Team USA representation at the Olympics. I used to fence and ride hunter jumper, so I have soft spots for those sports. Nevertheless, it is likely that this hectic summer the only coverage I will see will be clips on the internet. Although our rock gym is doing a climbing watch party, so maybe I’ll make it to that. I’m very excited for both Team USA Artistic Swimming (synchronized) and Climbing, though. I think they are both sports where we’ve been growing the USA programs in very positive role-model-y ways.

Although I admit that whenever I think of Olympic coverage I think of the old ABC Wide World of Sports intro with “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.” Both my kiddos are way more serious about sports than I ever was in high school and they’ve both experienced both sides of that equation which just feels like a lot sometimes. And wasn’t there once an LJ Idol topic along those lines. . . ? I feel like there was.