Go Li! Come On Ding! Here We Go Guo! And Guo #2!*

So the Olympic ticket hoopla has died down for the most part, and now that it's over I think most people, save for the few that got every ticket they wanted, would say it was a disaster. Only 700,000 people got tickets in the first round, and I was one of the 1.2 million who lost out. I thought I would get at least one ticket, maybe two if I was lucky, but I really assumed I would get something. See what assuming does? I decided to enter the second round of tickets, where all the sports with availability were opened up at 6am and everyone scrambled online to buy something, anything so they could say they are attending the London Olympics. I chose my sports from the oh so wide availability then spent 40 minutes refreshing my browser to get the purchase to go through. Since it was first come-first served, I had an inkling that my delay in buying would cost me some of my three chosen events, and I was right. So what did I get?

Table Tennis Baby! 

That's right, Dave and I have tickets to arguably the GREATEST Olympic sport of all time. Oh wait, no. But still I think some would admit to being envious they won't see the rapid fire action of the women's semi-finals (or something, I can't even remember what round I got). I will be fortunate enough to see the loop, flying off the penhold. I'll watch the players adjust their blades before they call time-out. And maybe the matches will be interrupted by lets. OK, I am plum out of table tennis terminology.

I think I'll refrain from asking people if I am in the right venue for "whiff-waff" as table tennis is apparently called somewhere.  Nor will I am ask the diehards, "excuse me, is this where they're playing flim flam?"I will give table tennis the respect it deserves. Maybe I'll even buy a table tennis racket and little tiny case for it and then carry it with me to the event, like you see people doing with tennis rackets at Wimbledon. You know, acting like they are big time players themselves. I would look so cool. Don't be jealous.

* Those are the top 4 ranked women's table tennis players in the world right now. Bet you didn't know that.