Song of Bernadette

Twentieth-Century Fox worried that The Song of Bernadette, the movie about a girl in 19th-century France who saw visions of Mary, would be controversial. So they put this at the beginning: "To those who believe in God, no explanation is necessary. To those who do not believe in God, no explanation is possible."

"to gain or lose it all"

Favorite Olympic moment so far these games: Marian Dragulescu's second vault in the event finals. He got a 16.8 on his first vault, higher than anyone else's average score. He could have been pretty conservative on his second vault, but he went for a huge, difficult second vault. And then he fell, and wound up in fourth. He could have played it safe, and wound up somewhere in the medals, but he wanted to be better. He's one of my favorites anyway, but that's not why this was my favorite moment.

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Seriously - how is it possible that The Grounding of Group 6 was never made into a movie?

synchro platform finals

Keeping tabs on the men's synchro finals. The US men are in 5th - but only out of second by about 8 points, with one dive left.
Damn, the Aussies had a great first dive. I don't think Finchum and Boudia could beat that - but bronze?
Cuba and Great Britain come before the US; they're behind, and will stay there (barring disaster).
See, this is why blogging can be a handy outlet - otherwise, I'd be keeping the SO up with this.
Oh, Germans, please stay about seven behind the US. No - a 96 on the last dive. That'll knock out the US, I'm afraid. Sorry, David and Thomas!
Yeah, their last dive was a 93, but with the Russians and Chinese still to go, it would take a miracle.
No, China just dove, and they were fine. So no medal. Drat.
Yes, fifth, in the end. They missed the podium by fewer than five points (out of 400-odd). Sigh. Poor guys.