Monday, August 13, 2012

Hello, everybody. They say that all good things must come to an end, and that was the case for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London on Sunday with plenty of company from the Spice Girls, One Direction, Madness, George Michael, Muse, Monty Python's Eric Idle, and Annie Lennox among others. With a $14 billion bill, those performers were each paid something that could be worth a small drink: $1.50!

Anyway, The Who closed the festivities off after the dousing of the Olympic cauldron, which followed the the 10,800 athletes all marching in as one plus remarks by International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge declaring the games over.

The United States had their best ever showing during those two weeks, coming home with the most medals haul with 104; 46 of them gold including the men's basketball team holding off Spain 107-100 in the finals. The host country, Great Britain, did well themselves: 29 golds, 65 overall (their largest since 1908).

There were some unforgettable moments throughout the games, including Michael Phelps capping off his career as the most decorated Olympian ever...not to mention passing the swimming hotness torch to Ryan Lochte, who will probably follow his lead at Rio in 2016. Mo Farah swept the 5,000- and 10,000-meter races to not just the roar of the hometown crowd at Olympic Stadium, but to the ecstatic BBC commentators calling them!

Females dominated these games, headlined by Gabby Douglas's and Missy Franklin's golds, the U.S. soccer, gymnastics, and basketball teams, and women's boxing making its Olympics debut.

Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee track athlete from South Africa, may not have a medal around his neck, but was a champion to everybody's hearts. And yes, there was Usain Bolt...winner and still king of the track.

With the Games of the XXX Olympiad over and the other athletes still departing from Heathrow Airport with the ultimate souvenirs, it's now on to Sochi, Russia and the XXII Olympic Winter Games in 2014. For the United States and Canada, they will finally compete at an Olympics in Russia 34 years after they and 60 other countries boycotted the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow. But during those last two weeks in London, this year's Olympics sure lived up to their theme: "Inspire a generation."

And last but not least: Stacy Keibler has followed the Olympics while in Italy with George Clooney, and pretty soon, she's returning to television as host of a new Lifetime show called "Supermarket Superstars." As for "The X Factor"? She's still in the running for that hosting job

It's already been a year since she and Clooney as an item became front-page news around the world; and in the months since, we saw them stealing the show at the biggest entertainment events including the granddaddy of them all, the Oscars. There were even rumors about Stacy sprouting a baby George, but an Instagram pic of her toned abs put those to bed.

With Miley Cyrus and now Jennifer Aniston engaged, and Natalie Portman recently wed, what are the odds that wedding bells will ring for George and Stacy? One in about never! But if the two happen to become over after one year, then Stacy's next guy? Fellow Baltimoreian Michael Phelps...unless if   she cheats on him in the backseat of a Porsche with Ryan Lochte! So long and stay strong.

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