10 Reasons You Should Set AsideYour Entire Life to Watch Olympic Trials

10 Reasons You Should Set AsideYour Entire Life to Watch Olympic Trials
 
When I was a kid, there was a dish I’d make affectionately called, “The Refrigerator.” The Refrigerator was basically a wrap filled with anything and everything: Meat. Cheese. Veggies. More meat. More cheese. The Refrigerator itself craved whatever you gave it, growing ever-more powerful with the more ingredients you stuffed inside it. Eventually, with enough shoved inside, The Refrigerator became a 10,000-calorie “meal” capable of leaving you full for days. It was glorious.


The Olympic Trials are like The Refrigerator: It’s a sports event with everything you could want. Drama? How about lives coming down to 60 seconds of racing. Excitement? How about unheralded teenagers taking down famous Olympic veterans. Tension? How about tens of thousands of screaming fans laser-focused on eight individuals standing half-naked in front of millions of live TV viewers for a once-in-a-lifetime race, a performance that could change a life, and make dreams come true.

The Olympic Trials have it all. It’s that 10,000 calorie meal that leaves you satisfied for days, months, years. Because it happens only every four years, it’s bigger than the Super Bowl, more intense than a World Series’ 9th inning, more exciting than March Madness, with more storylines than a college football playoff. 
 

Here are 10 reasons you should grab your calendar and mark several large red X’s across June 26-July 3, 2016, so you can appropriately give your senses to the sentient all-encompassing sports beast otherwise known as The Olympic Trials. 

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