Eighth place? Eighth fucking place?!?!?! I know Adam Van Koeverden let up a little after he realized he wasn’t going to medal, but I could be having the same reaction if he finished fourth. There were three men who were head and shoulders above the field: Van Koeverden, Tim Brabants, and Erik Larsen, and Van [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Alexandre Despatie’
August 22, 2008
Thomas Hall is the new Adam Van Koeverden; Adam Van Koeverden is the new Brent Hayden
August 20, 2008
Olympic Round-up: More medals than Cuba; up next: The Netherlands
I took the weekend off, mainly because the girlfriend gets all snippy when I spend my time constructing epic posts about CBC announcers instead of paying attention to her. And of course, Canada pulls off like 6 more medals, making all the bitchers from five days ago eat their words (note that, as a bitcher, [...]
August 13, 2008
I feel sorry for Alexandre Despatie
Alexandre Despatie (pictured as the guy you can see in this photo) is arguably the best diver in the world. He’s unarguably the best diver in Canada, all-time, and has been so for, arguably, ten years.
Despatie’s resume speaks to this: he’s a three-time World Champ, an Olympic silver medallist, five-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist (the [...]
August 13, 2008
I think Canada hates Michael Phelps plus bonus swimming and Kyle Shewfelt thoughts
Having watched probably 30 hours of the Olympics already (yes, really), and with Canada having yet to win a medal, and with my tendency to try to avoid negativity at a time like this, there hasn’t been a whole lot to write about on the Canadian front.
Today, however, was such a big disappointment in the [...]
