Guest blog post by Michaela Goldberg

The Olympics is a spectacle unlike any other. So I ordered cable TV from Cable.tv just in time to catch the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

I didn't want to miss the best athletes from all over the world competing in a variety of disciplines!

Susan notes: I love how these Daily Om messages often speak to me directly... so many life lessons to learn, so little time to learn them!

Disappointment provides us a bridge from expectations to acceptance of reality, wisdom, and the energy to begin again.

Whenever we do something in life with an expectation of how we would like it to turn out, we risk experiencing disappointment. 

Larisa Semyonovna Latynina born December 27, 1934 in Kherson, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian-Ukrainian and former Soviet gymnast who is the only female athlete to win nine Olympic gold medals.

She holds 18 total medals, second most won by a competitor in any sport at the Olympics.

An Olympic marathon is a little over 26 miles long. The race starts and finishes in the Olympic Stadium. The rest of it is run through the city streets.

A world-class athlete can complete the marathon in a little over 2 hours. But that wasn’t the case for Stephen Akhwari in 1968.