My Opening Ceremonies gold medal goes to the South Koreans and the Belgians for their Rooster ties.
Watching Novak Djokovic win Wimbledon on Sunday I thought of the Serbian waiter who served us on Las Olas a few weeks back. Hania had asked him about the situation in Serbia and he had launched into a tirade against president Aleksandar Vucic and his megalomania.
“After the French Open,” the waiter said, “the headline in the newspaper was not: ‘Djokovic Wins the French Open,’ it was ‘Vucic Congratulates Djokovic on Winning the French Open.’”
There is a wonderful appropriateness, not to mention symmetry, in tennis's great trinity - Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic - all having 20 Grand Slam titles. Now if only it could stay like that.
In its match against Sweden yesterday, Poland fell behind in the 81st second. It then went down 2-0, but its players did not give up. With 10 minutes to play, the star striker Robert Lewandowski tied the score with his second goal of the match. Unfortunately, Sweden scored a third time. From the Warsaw Uprising to Euro 2020, the national motto should be “Heroic in Defeat.”
It is interesting watching soccer, a sport in which men drop to the ground in agony when someone steps on their toes, and then watching ice hockey.