You might have heard the story of Matt Emmons who was oh so close to a Gold in the Athens Olympics. He only had to hit the target in the general vicinity of the bullseye to win, but when he started shooting he shot the wrong target and lost. Well it’s deja vu all over [...]
At home in Maryland, apparently. He’s been tracked down by the Baltimore Sun but has refused interview requests. Just for background, the family has had a bit of a rough time with estrangement and whatnot, but things do appear to be better now. It’s just the Senior Phelps didn’t want to distract from the attention [...]
Who would win? Not even a contest. Again from my dad: * the 100 meter dash guy (Bolt) is going 10,235.41 mm per second * Phelps was splashing 1,977.066 mm per second. Bolt would beat Phelps by 80.6 meters.
The New York Times is reporting that the actual photo finish of the Michael Phelps’ 7th gold medal will not be released, despite the requests from many in the media. Apparently Omega has underwater video that slows the action even more than the one-hundredth of a second that Phelps won by…. Christopher Clarey of The [...]
My dad just did the math and it works out like this: Phelps was splashing 1,977.066 mm per second. the ‘loser’ paddled at 1,976.675 mm per second – so he won by 0.391 mm per second difference x 50.58 seconds . . .19.766 mm –
About two seconds after the announcer on tv said “these kids are representative of the average kids in China” my friends (from China) all said ‘bull crap”. The kids were dressed in fancy ethnic costumes of the 56 various ‘minorities’ in China but if you looked at them they were all very attractive and cute, [...]
A quiet protest is underway at the Olympic village by a number of athletes unhappy with the services. At all Olympics, a religious center is set up to handle athletes spiritual needs. Chaplins and Imans and other religious persons were brought in from around the world with multi-lingual abilities to help athletes prepare mentally before [...]
Rumors are swirling that the ‘Silk Road’ solo dancer, who was to dance atop the ‘carpet’ during the Olympic Opening Ceremony, was seriously injured in a fall after a practice and may have permanent damage, possibly never walking again. Liu Yan, a famous Chinese dancer who was suspended above the swirling painting was in the [...]
Russia and ‘Georgia’ took to the imitation ‘beach’ in Beijing and played a rather close match which saw the Georgians win and the Russians get knocked out of the tournament. Despite the pleasantries on the sand with hugs and handshakes, when the Russians got to the microphones they let lose a tirade that can only [...]
FBI officials in Beijing (yes, we usually have a few agents in the embassies) have been invited to observe the murder investigation of American tourist Todd Bachman. Current indications are that Tang Yongming, 47, was “encountering family difficulties and was extremely depressed”.
The Guardian is reporting the the rivalry between the UK and Australia is not exactly a ‘clean’ one. After Rebecca Adlington’s 400m freestyle gold set the tone for Britain in the pool here, John Coates, the head of the Australian Olympic Committee and an International Olympic Committee member since 2001, was asked for his thoughts. [...]
The Olympic boxing rounds are underway, and no one is quite sure what is going on with the scoring. British and Ukrainian judges have launched formal protests in the way the officials ’seem’ to favoring the local fighters. “I knew they were going to give him everything he wanted,” said Murray, who trailed 4-0 after [...]
UPDATE Aug 23: Pretty-voice Yang Peiyi will perform in closing ceremony! Watching the Opening ceremony it was pretty obvious that the little girl singing before the parade of ‘ethnic minority’ children wasn’t actually singing live. In the heat and the noise of 90,000 people, no voice would have been that clear or solid, so it [...]
Cheerleaders! – Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics Originally uploaded by kk+ Not all the cheerleaders at the Beijing Olympics are Chinese. Here’s some pics from Flickr user kk+ of some Eastern European Cheerleaders. They might be the ‘Red Foxes’ from Lithuania. I’ll see if I can find some more pictures. You can also find more at [...]
Mark Spitz is sitting around pondering whether Michael Phelps is going to break his record for gold medals in one Olympics and feeling a bit left out of things apparently: “I never got invited. You don’t go to the Olympics just to say, I am going to go. Especially because of who I am,” Spitz [...]
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