With the Olympics upon us again, I realized that the only reason I watch judgement-based sports like gymnastics, diving, figure skating, and the like, is with the hope that one of the athletes falls or does something else that’s completely unexpected.

Now, I absolutely don’t want anyone to be injured, nor do I revel in their post-mistake misery, but watching people slip off the bars, face plant, belly flop, jump wildly off the mat, etc, is very exciting. This makes the preliminary rounds so much better than the finals because people make more mistakes. Again, please don’t get hurt, but DO take a wild, tumbling spin off the high bar and land perfectly cushioned by the mat. This happened to some guy the other day and it was really fun to watch.

But they didn’t show his score! I want to see the extremely low scores earned by these fantastic routines!

I kind of, sort of respect perfect routines with a high degree if difficulty, but they have a canned, sterile banality to them that I find a bit boring. Bring on the mistakes.