I love Olympians. Ain’t crazy about lip synch videos

By all means, celebrate Olympic Day.

Odd as that is, considering there are two full weeks of "Olympic Days" every two years, alternately celebrated in summer and winter. We whoop it up plenty then, I think, especially when we win something.

One thing, though, I'd rather not see, is a video of Olympians dancing around and lip synching to some song that has already had that treatment from thousands of other people.

Check that. This isn't an Olympic thing, really. The idea of a cheaply shot and quickly uploaded videos of folks dancing around and mouthing the words to a well-worn song used to be a novel idea.

But it's become so commonplace now that I can't even remember when it was an interesting, fresh thing to do. At some point, it's become just like those videos of members of a wedding party doing a funky dance down the aisle at a church. Oh, another one of those, eh?

The Canadian Olympic Association has released a video of our Olympic heroes dancing around and goofing off to the strains of Pharrell's chart-topping (and impossible to kill) hit "Happy."

Been there, done that, about a million times.

Don't blame the Olympians. They're all in a good mood and yucking it up together. Somebody rolls a video and plays a bouncy song on loudspeaker and asks for cooperation, whadya gonna do? And, in fairness, their video is better than most, as they are able to inject the odd athletic move like a backflip into it for a little spice.

Like the Ellen group selfie, the group lip synch video is more than cooked through and through and just about inedible now, all burnt to a crisp.

Maybe my targeting is just slightly off, though. Perhaps it's not the group dance video idea that's exactly the culprit. Maybe it's just that we get them done to the same song over and over and over. Quite possible I'd love this if it had been a lip synch and dance video to Rick Dees' Disco Duck. Or The Brady Bunch Kids' "Sunshine Day."

I love knowing more about Olympians. Who they are, what makes them tick and that sort of stuff. Those in-depth features and interviews we see leading up to and during The Olympics are gold. Watching them perform at their peak in the disciplines they've trained so hard for? Cannot get enough of that either.

Love the Olympians. I thank them for the sporting thrills they provide us all.

But, quickly shot and edited video of a group of anybody doing this sort of thing is probably now best left for private consumption at a golf tournament banquet or corporate retirement party near you.

Got video of Pharrell completing a triple toe loop? I gotta see that.

Carly Rae Jepsen sticking a 720 on a snowboard? Giddyup.

On this day, I celebrate Olympians. I thank them for their dedication, talent and winning charm.

Also, on this day, I ask that a cease and desist order be slapped on the group lip synch video.

We still have time to keep the World Cup champions from a ragged dance number to the sounds of Katy Perry's "Roar."