Some highlights from my family watching the Olympics in no particular order
"How tall is Simone Biles?" "Not very"
"Is Celine Dion like French royalty or something" "no but she should be"
"No I don't really want to watch men's gymnastics, not my thing" 5 minutes later "SPIN, STEVE!"
"Can... can he see the pommel horse?" "I don't think so"
"Whats Simone Biles husband's name again?" "She's married?"
"Ilona Maher is a national treasure and I'm going to marry her" "I thought you were straight?"
"Stephen Nedoroscik is so hot, and he can solve a rubik's cube in 9 seconds" "...why do you know that?"
"I've decided I can't marry Steve because I am also blind as a bat without my glasses and that would just set our kids up for failure" "I'm sure his girlfriend will be happy to hear that"
"Mom, if I got gay married to an Olympic gold medalist, how mad would you be?" "You can't marry Katie Ledecky she's taller than your father and 8 years older than you" "damn it"
I LOVE when dudes with irrelevant opinions make comments about female athletes and then get absolutely torn to shreds by the female athlete they’re talking about. Ilona Maher isn’t the hero we need, she’s the hero we deserve!
The U.S Women’s Rugby team and Ilona Maher won Team USA’s first Olympic medal in women’s rugby! 🥳🥉
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