This is the Final Leaderboard of the First Biennial Olympics Fantasy Game.  I\’m kind of choking back a few tears here.  We had our ups and downs during the long and arduous season, but I think we all learned some important lessons about sports, Olympics, and maybe especially ourselves.

Remember the early days when Mabeltopia was on top?  Then there was the rise and fall of Barrettstan before President B. Barrette eventually got beat by his own sister.  President Cunningham finished a shocking thirteenth after his time at the bottom (heh).  Season-long fence-sitters Presidents Fohl, Cutshall, and Crandall, finished in about the same positions they held all month, so I guess that\’s not much of a surprise.  President M. Fletcher kept warning us not to count him out, and he finished a respectable 8th place, just behind President Keith Starnes in seventh, a shocking coup for a guy who didn\’t even bother to submit his Part Two picks.    President Irwin just edged out a three-way tie for last by correctly selecting Russia to win the overall medal count, and God-King Grogan was unsurprisingly a disappointment in twentieth.  My own father came in twenty-third, but will never know because the leaderboard print is too small for him to read without his glasses.  President Root ice danced her way to very brief glory, while President K. Fletcher just didn\’t have the right spreadsheets to dominate this time.

Everyone, regroup.  Start your research now.  Rio is right around the corner.