Okay, I admit it--I wasn't one of those folks watching the Olympics 24/7 the past two weeks.

        Apparently, there were a lot of you.     Everything I read about the TV ratings for NBC pretty much says the same thing: every set in the country was tuned to the network or one of it's cable satellites when the Games were on, even for sports as mundane as archery, target shooting or whatever the hell that stuff is where the girls dance holding those scarves on sticks.

         We've heard tons about Michael Phelps and the Redeem Team.     We know all there is to possibly know about beach volleyball.     I've seen "Today" show hosts embarrass themselves over and over again, trying to mimic the feats of trained Olympic athletes.     I don't think there's a square inch of Beijing that didn't get at least 15 minutes of face time.

       So, why haven't we heard anything about Cuba's Taekwondo team member using a judge's face for a Wilson football--or, more incredibly, Fidel Castro's outlandish justification for his athlete's outrageous, indefensible behavior?

       The first I saw of it was Tuesday morning as I prepped for Wisconsin's Morning News.     The Drudge Report offers up this link which contains the whole story as well as a foreign-language video link of the incident.      Granted, it's not the best quality, but it's more than I've seen anywhere else.

        I remember watching Olympic boxing in the 70's and 80's, when Cuban boxers blatantly made sure they got in one, two or three punches after the bell would sound, sometimes well after their opponents had dropped their guards.      I watched a Cuban baseball player blatantly showboat after hitting a game-clinching home run against the U-S in Beijing--the kind of antics that would've earned the offender or a teammate a retaliatory sphere in the neck had it been the Big Leagues (the guy literally BACKED UP in the batter's box to admire his blast, prompting the American catcher to yell at him to get moving, not unlike Crash in "Bull Durham").     In short, it's not surprising to see Castro's athletes competing with something more than a chip on their collective shoulders.

        But ATTACKING a judge?      How did this not get MORE play?     Where in hell was this story?

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