I have been comforted by Lloyd’s reasoning in the comment for yesterday’s entry. You (any reader) must forgive my uninitiated Olympic mind and my irrational fear of communism. However, I was definitely not comforted by Jason’s comment, haha. (He’s the first commenter in that entry.)

I was also thinking about the models (the one based on economics), and it does account for bumps like the US team losing to Puerto Rico (which isn’t even a country for crying out loud). So, um, go USA.

In any case, China still put a man in space, and I still feel they are on the rise, looking beyond the 2008 Olympics.