Saturday at Summer Olympics: Great Day for the Oldsters!!!

Spending WAY too much time in front of the TV watching the summer Olympics, but what a day this Saturday Aug. 16 has been!!!! Michael Phelps' Eight for Eight (they said 8 is a good luck number in China), and "Lightning" Bolt's 100m sprint, of course; but what gave me the most pleasure and excitement was seeing the success of so many "older" athletes: Two Silvers in swimming today for Dara Torres (41); a Gold for Jason Lezak (32) in the anchor leg of the 4x100 swimming relay that cemented Phelps' #8; and a 2:26.44 marathon Gold medal for Constantina Tomescu (38) of Romania. How much inspiration could you want in a single day!!!!! Wow. I'm exhausted just watching! Makes me wonder how many great athletes were NOT in prime time on tv today! Exemplars like these make it easier to believe that each of us, irrespective of age and specific ability can aspire to Citius, Altius, Fortius, and can hope to be a little better than yesterday.