It's interesting to note that the coverage of the Olympics might be something that would cause a young athlete NOT to reach for Olympic glory. The commentators for gymnastics are down-right brutal. It's one thing to offer commentary, it's another to continually berate an athlete in front of millions of viewers!

Hopefully there weren't a whole lot of kids watching the poor sportsmanship of the Greco-Roman wrestler who refused his medal and stepped down from the podium and left it in the middle of the match before storming out.

http://sports.aol.com/olympics/story/_a/bbdp/i-dont-care-about-this-meda...

Not everyone can win the gold -- no matter how bad you want it or how much better you think you are than someone else. Judging in many of these sports is subjective and depends on interpretation of how that person thinks the athlete did.

The 33-year-old Ara Abrahamian could take lessons from 16-year-old Shawn Johnson of the U.S. gymnastics team -- despite a strong rivalry with Nastia Liukin, she cheered her teammate all the way to the gold and graciously accepted her silver medal.