Olympic Leftovers: Thoughts from the track

Out of nowhere bronze from Priscilla Lopes-Schliep aside, it was a pretty pathetic output from the track and field team once again this year. The saddest part of the decline of Canadian athletics, which has won only Lopes-Schliep’s bronze since the double gold in 1996, is that we’ve put together some strong track teams that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Hoooooooooo Lyyyyyyyyyyy Shit!

So I just caught the replay of today’s 4×100m freestyle relay that saw the US come from behind to defeat the French by .08 seconds. 8 hundredths of a second. And the comeback came against the French world record holder.

Pollution, censorship, and human rights violations, oh my

With the Opening Ceremonies going for the Beijing Olympics on Friday (which may be Thursday here, I’m not sure about the time difference yet), I’m gearing up for a couple of weeks in front of the TV with odd sleeping hours. I love the Olympics with the sort of unconditional love normally reserved for my [...]