Well, they did win the bronze medal over Lithuania,
a 3rd place finish is not bad at all in my opinion,
you don't need to win gold everytime to be considered
a "dream" team/athlete in my eyes.
As for the team comments,
I think they may think feel/differently
now of Greece after living there for 2 weeks.
NBC did a very touching story last
evening on 3 athletes who most
likely the world will never know
about, a 29 year old female
gymnast (from the former Russia I believe)
still in the sport competing for
her son who has leukemia to make
ends meet for his treatments,
most likely these were her last Olympics.
A 15 year old Pakistinian swimmer
the youngest athlete in Athens,
competing for her country while
most of them don't condone
or support her due to their
religious Muslim beliefs but she
still is going after her dream
An Argentinean basketball player
who lost his mother fiance and sister
in a tragic car accident little over
a year ago and then loosing his father
but yet was in Athens competing for
his country.
All Olympians
who had the courage to go on
and compete for their country
despite their personal problems
back home
are winners no matter what they won
or didn't.
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