Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Joe Willie On The Shrimpbox: Good Olympic Hosts

A U.S. BEACH VOLLEYBALL PLAYER LOST HER WEDDING RING DURING A MATCH . . . BUT A BUNCH OF VOLUNTEERS HELPED HER FIND IT:


Have you heard of these beach volleyball players, KERRI WALSH and MISTY MAY-TREANOR? They took home the gold for the U.S. at the 2004 Olympics in Athens . . . and they're the U.S.'s best shot for beach volleyball gold this year in Beijing, too.


--Anyway, on Sunday, Kerri and Misty had their first match against a team from Japan . . . and at some point during the match, Kerri Walsh went up to block a spike, and the volleyball knocked her wedding ring completely OFF her finger.


--So the ladies finished smoking the Japanese team, and a few hours later, after all the day's matches were done, a bunch of volunteers got together and combed through 17,000 TONS of sand to help Kerri find her ring . . . which they eventually did.

So what's my point? Kerri's ring was found by a Chinese volunteer. Now, maybe it's just me, but I sort of assumed that the Chinese would be total a-holes as hosts . . . but that couldn't be further from the truth.)


--In fact . . . crazy stabbings aside . . . I'd go so far as to say that the Chinese have been downright gracious in their acceptance of other nations' athletes. I mean, did you hear the way they cheered for the U.S. men's basketball team?


If the Games were in the U.S., we'd have booed the crap out of China's basketball team. I guess what I'm getting at is that it's kind of surprising how cool the Chinese people have been, all things considered, don't you think?

1 comment:

The Management said...

Good thing they found the ring! I watched this and really didn't think they'd be able to dig it up, especially because they rake the court after every match.

If Wslsh hadn't been able to find it, maybe she would have posted along with others who have lost wedding and engagement rings on www.mervisdiamond.com/found