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OLYMPIC CALENDAR TODAY 12:30 - 4 p.m.: Swimming; Beach Volleyball, United States Men’s Match (LIVE); Rowing, Semifinals; Canoeing, Whitewater Competition. 8 p.m. - Midnight: Gymnastics, Women’s Individual All-Around Gold Medal Final; Swimming, Gold Medal Finals: Men’s 200m Backstroke, Men’s 200m IM, Women’s 200m Breaststroke, Women’s 100m Freestyle; Beach Volleyball, United States Women’s Matches. Also note, Swimming Semifinals: Men’s 50m Freestyle, Men’s 100m Butterfly, Women’s 200m Backstroke. 12:35 - 2 a.m.: Men’s Volleyball, United States vs. Russia; Weightlifting, Men’s 77kg Gold Medal Final. 2 - 5 a.m.: Primetime Replay. FRIDAY 12:30 - 4 p.m.: Swimming; Track 8c Field, Men’s 10,000m Final (LIVE); Beach Volleyball, U.S. Elimination Round Match. 8 p.m. - Midnight: Swimming, Gold Medal Finals: Men’s 50m Freestyle, Men’s 100m Butterfly, Women’s 200m Backstroke, Women’s 800m Freestyle; Track & Field; Diving, Women’s Platform Competition; Gymnastics, Women’s Trampoline; Volleyball, Women United States vs. Russia. Also note, Swimming, Semifinals: Women’s 50m Freestyle. 12:35 - 2 a.m.: Track and Field, Heptathlon Day 1, Women’s 800 first round; Beach Volleyball, United States Elimination Round Match; Canoeing, Whitewater Gold Medal Final. 2 - 6 a.m.: Primetime Replay. SATURDAY 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.: Track & Field; Gymnastics, Men’s Trampoline Gold Medal Final; Men’s Basketball, United States vs. Lithuania (LIVE); Men’s Volleyball, United States vs. Australia; Beach Volleyball, United States Elimination Round Match; Men’s Water Polo, United States vs. Russia (LIVE). 8 p.m. - Midnight: Track & Field, Women’s 100m Gold Medal Final; Swimming, Gold Medal Finals: Men’s 1500m Freestyle, Men’s 4x100m Medley Relay, Women’s 50m Freestyle, Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay; Diving, Women’s Platform Semifinal; Beach Volleyball, United States Elimination Round Match. 12:30 - 2 a.m.: Track & Field, Women’s Discus Gold Medal Final, Heptathlon Gold Medal Final, Women’s 800m Semifinals; Cycling, Track Gold Medal Finals; Weightlifting, Women’s Super Heavyweight Competition. 2-6 a.m.: Primetime Replay. SUNDAY 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.: Track & Field, Women’s Marathon (LIVE); Wheelchair, Gold Medal Finals; Women’s Volleyball, United States vs. Cuba (LIVE); Rowing, Gold Medal Finals; Beach Volleyball, United States Quarterfinal (LIVE). 7 p.m. - Midnight: Gymnastics, Individual Event Gold Medal Finals; Track & Field, Gold Medal Finals: Men’s 100m, Men’s High Jump, Men’s Triple Jump; Diving, Women’s Platform Gold Medal Final; Beach Volleyball, United States Women’s Quarterfinal. 12:35 - 2 a.m.: Track & Field, Men’s Hammer Throw Gold Medal Final, Women’s 400m Hurdles Semifinals; Beach Volleyball, Quarterfinal; Beach Volleyball, Quarterfinal; Cycling, Track Gold Medal Finals. 2-6 a.m.: Primetime Replay. 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(803) 799-1442 1230 PENDLETON STREET COLUMBIA, SC 29201 Just arrived ...Jansport and Columbia Bookbags Various shapes, sizes, colors See us for Carhartt, Columbia, Woolrich, Dickies and much more. I MOE LEVYS I Corner oflLady & Assembly St (2 blocks from Capittf) 1 252-7102_ J Athens ) athletes = prove inspiring : u Olympic competition ^ makes me all giddy 9 inside « I love sport. I love the idea of . competing, I love watching people compete and I love turning things into competitions. You doing (laundry? These tTl are the questions you w should be . iK asking yourself: Can 1 do this the quickest? Can I , wash the most? Can I develop DAVID the most suds STAGG under one ^ minute? Can I meZ™ ' STUDENT INTO THAT MACHINE? I love how ^^B we’ve taken the necessary things in life and turned them into . . ** f competitions, everyday things like eating. If a human can eat a hot dog, then by all means, I want to know who can eat the most in a m certain amount of time. I want to ' j s know how many marshmallows ^ you can stick in your mouth and I want you to whistle or dance against someone else while doing it. Even the most absolutely necessary thing in life is one of the „ first competitions I guarantee you held as a young kid: How many times have you tried to see who ^ can hold their breath underwater the longest at the pool? It just shows that competing is innate. |^H I’ve even watched little babies toss their rattles like shot-puts to win extra baby food. This is why it’s beginning to bother me that people are saying the Olympics are no longer the premier sporting event of the world. I look at these sprinters and see their muscles and realize it’s a ' muscle I’ll never be able to see on my own body—and we’re talking *j» about a calf muscle. I don’t even understand how the breast stroke actually moves a body through the water; if I tried to do it, I’d flounder a little bit, gasp for air and then sink—and then I’d want ‘ to know if I at least sank FIRST. Combine this existing ridiculous 5 athletic prowess in other athletes with my love for competition and I’ll tell you what this led to one afternoon: I spent a good, full ] hour watching badminton. 1 Badminton. I swear, after I watched Great Britain do battle ■ (and it sure as heck was a battle if i I’ve ever seen one) with the 1 Japanese for a qualifying spot in J the mixed doubles, I was so into it j I wanted to cry tears of victory | when Great Britain edged out a J comeback in the third set. See i that? I’m even using badminton , terms, now. After Robert Blair and ^ Natalie Munt went up in the match . ^ by winning the first set, they got J trashed in the second, losing 7-15. ' Watching them come from behind > in the third set to take victory was i like watching my child take his j rtrst step, nnu now mar cmia win be holding a badminton racket. But this is how it’s becoming for every sport with me. Table tennis, cycling road races, women’s field hockey; put a sport in front of me—especially if there’s an American team involved—and I’ll be cheering like it’s a Carolina Clemson game. It’s inspiring, awe > ] inducing, and makes me remember • ’ how worthless my own body can be sometimes. I can’t bend like gymnasts. I can’t slice through , water like swimmers. I can’t even *! use my hands—something I’ve { used, well, about EVERY DVY— ( like those who play handbai. It leads to so much more respect for those out there that are literally THE BEST in the world at something. But I’ll have my time in the spotlight. I’ll be the best one day— as soon as Holding Your Breah Underwater is introduced as at Olympic sport, you can guarantee I’ll be there, going for the gold. ___ _ _ <