Since I was a little girl, that was always my favorite part of the Olympics, watching each of the countries enter the stadium in the Opening Ceremonies. When I was younger I would have a globe or atlas nearby and see if I could find the countries! (I'm a geography buff).

I don't have cable TV so I couldn't watch it last night but streaming it this morning was awesome! No commercial breaks (you'd see a 10 second pause where the breaks were). Plus you got to see all the countries. Usually with commercial breaks they would just skip over the countries that entered during the break (usually minor obscure ones).

I'll watch replays of some of the events but in the end I do like Winter better!

Since my son was a fencer in college, I have taken an interest in the sport.

She's terrific. I'm definitely going to be rooting hard for her.

No snark or anything, I just want to know. How does she swim? She can't wear a hijab in the pool. Does she just wear a regular rubber cap?

Not usually done in water.

I mean there are some sports in the olympics these days.

That would be quite interesting,

We will make America GREAT again when we win the gold medal in 2020 for Water Fencing

For some reason I thought somebody said she was a swimmer and I just couldn't figure out how.

In the inimitable words of Roseanne Rosanadana - never mind.

At least for Olympic standards since she is a fencer and not a swimmer.

Plus I wouldn't see what the issue would be with a hijab for swimmers. Swimmers wear swim caps anyways and I've seen non-Muslims wear full bodysuits with hoodies on them for competition. Something about making the body more aerodynamic. So if anything a hijab would be a non-issue as long as it's water friendly.

And google hijab swimsuits - very common item.

Imagine a hooded wetsuit and you have the general idea.

But as others have said, she plays a dry-land sport.

It took me a bit to understand the rules and concepts, but once I did I loved it.

Kicking butt in men's swimming right now. Won gold last night by a wonderful female athlete. However, I can't stand Michael phelps. So many other wonderful Americans who deserved the honor over him.

Who deserves it more then the most decorated Olympian of all time, with a total of 22 medals?

but at the same time welcome the idea that she can observe her personal beliefs in an open society.