12 Weeks
Wow!
Commentary is talking about the Olympics that just wrapped up. They were great to watch. From the Opening Ceremony to yesterday’s Closing Ceremony. Let me just say this. A lot of folks are talking about Tom Cruise and his descent into the stadium. How about the piano player who was dangling under the grand piano. That was a very uncomfortable watch. I kept hoping the cables were doing their job.
The competition was tense all the way to the end. Team USA held off France in the Women’s basketball final. On Saturday, Steph Curry led the way to bring the Gold for the USA fellas. The Women’s soccer final had me on the edge of my seat.
What about the Team USA women. See this from USA Today:
PARIS — If U.S. women were a nation unto themselves, their results at the 2024 Paris Olympics would make them one of the most dominant athletic countries on earth.
The exhilarating U.S. soccer victory over Brazil Saturday evening added an exclamation point to what already have been a fabulous Olympic Games for the American women.
They are winning medals at such a terrific rate that if they jettisoned the guys, they would be third in the overall medal standings, behind only the full U.S. team and China.
That means half of the U.S. team is performing better at the Paris Olympics than the full teams of about 200 other nations, including 85 countries that have won at least one medal.
The U.S. women are having a better Olympics than the full teams from Australia, Japan, host France, Great Britain, Korea, the Netherlands and Germany — and everyone else.
Simone Biles, Gabby Thomas, Katie Ledecky, Torri Huske, Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone, Lee Kiefer, A’ja Wilson, Kristen Faulkner, and Alyssa Naeher are among the many who led the way for Team USA as they tied China for the most Gold Medals. The women of Team USA certainly made an impression on this viewer. Way to go.
The featured photo was from yesterday’s Closing Ceremony.
Who was yesterday’s masked lead guitarist? I found this on GuitarWorld.com:
French guitarist and Phoenix collaborator Noé Efira appeared wearing a mask and wielding a rare guitar amid the event’s final performance.
The Paris Olympics’ closing ceremony was chock-full of star power. However, one seemingly anonymous hooded guitarist managed to steal the show, sparking much online speculation about who it could be.
Now French guitarist Noé Efira appears to have been confirmed as the man behind the mask – and the player behind a searing solo that came right after Cambodian rapper Vann Da’s performance of Time to Rise.
Despite not being a household name, the talented guitarist is close friends with French indie band Phoenix, who featured prominently in the closing ceremony. He recently played with the group at a San Francisco concert, where he also appeared as a masked figure and gave the audience a taste of what millions of people witnessed yesterday.
Now you know.
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Election Day is 12 weeks from tomorrow. The Democratic National Conventions is one week from today. The convention is being held in Chicago. The first debate is four weeks from tomorrow.
JD Vance said this about Harris-Walz 2024 yesterday on CNN:
“It drives home how they’re trying to distract from their own policy failures. I mean, look, this is fundamentally schoolyard bully stuff. And so, they’re name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they’re going to make their lives better.”
Think about that. Name calling and bullying. I think Harris-Walz has gotten inside this fella’s head.
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We swept the series at Fenway. We swept the series at Fenway.
We are at Tropicana Field against the Rays for three starting this evening.
