Political and Athletic Predictions for the 2012 London Olympics

Bill Katovsky has a very brave predictions for the next Olympics:

Political and Athletic Predictions for the 2012 London Olympics
Soon, many of us will be experiencing post-Olympics withdrawal once the Birds Nest blaze is snuffed in Beijing.

There will be no more Misty May and Kerry Walsh passing, digging, and spiking volleyballs and then celebrating with hugs. No more Jamaicans leaving the rest of the world behind in their speedy colorful wake on the track.

No more emoting about gymnastics and its awful judging by the passionate Bela Karoyli in his thick Romanian accent to NBC's Bob Costas.

Since it's never too early to start looking ahead to the 2012 London Olympics, allow me to make some predictions. I'm sticking to my Huffpost landing with these premature observations.

Madonna wages a fierce and costly public-relations campaign to perform at the opening night ceremony in London. Instead, her request is declined, and so she petulantly decides to move to Australia where she opens a kabalah center in Sydney.Gold medal giant China continues to fast-track its successful Soviet-style sports program, focusing in track and field where it still lags far behind traditional powerhouses like Kenya, United States, and Jamaica. The Brits will have to get used to hearing the Chinese national anthem, "The March of The Volunteers," being played over and over at the medal ceremonies.

Pity those Chinese athletes who only managed to take home bronze or silver in Beijing. Many were sent off to their respective sports academies just one day after the jaw-dropping closing night ceremony. They were told they couldn't go home to visit their parents, but were instructed to immediately begin training for 2012.

Worse off were Chinese athletes who failed to medal in Beijing. They were shipped off for several years to "political re-education through labor" detention camps where they joined incarcerated activists, dissidents, and journalists.