Back when I was a fledgling student at one John Foster Dulles Elementary School in suburban Cincinnati, I was commissioned/assigned a report on the Olympics ... it was 1984 and the games were in America. Since completing that report, I have been a fan. Yes, I watch most of the "mainstream" sports (i.e. basketball, hockey, curling, and skiing) but I also enjoy some other sports. My brother and sister were both fortunate enough to swim competitively on the college level, so I watch swimming as well. Did anyone see what happened with Michael Phelps? Long story short, he took off his swim cap after a race to reveal a second cap with a Visa logo. No big deal, right? Wrong. One of the hard-and-fast rules of the Olympic Games (until lately) was that the athletes were unpaid amateurs. The U.S. Olympic Committee and USA Swimming have kept this standard, by allowing swim caps with only the logo of the swimmer's team or the cap's manufacturer. When this rule is broken, it is supposed to result in immediate disqualification in every event the swimmer participates.

Since I said "supposed," you know how this Phelps drama ended. Turns out he wears 2 caps in every meet (something my brother said he never did ... he shaved his head) and accidentally grabbed the Visa cap as his "undercap." Therefore, all is forgiven. I guess it doesn't hurt to be the "face of the Olympics" now does it?