The last post about the Beijing Olympics, and it’s about girls

Jennie Finch here is my favourite Olympic athlete ever. When she showed up to the ESPYs that year in that black dress and went about her business of being all hot and stuff, I was intrigued. When she struck out Mike Cameron on a softball field, I decided that she would forever be the unobtainable [...]

Why Canada thought Canada sucked at the Summer Olympics

Let’s go back about two weeks (yeah, I could have written this two weeks ago, but I was busy staying up until 4 in the morning to talk about diving, so go fuck yourself, hypothetical Internet critic who would say somthing like “OLD!!!!11!!! Learn 2 blog n00b” after reading my lede) to when Canada sat [...]

Huynh should feel the Cock-BURN

This smiling, happy, blinged out lady is the rightful flagbearer for Canada at last night’s closing ceremonies. Instead, trampolinist Karen Cockburn had the honour, but, with no disrespect to Cockburn, the COC made the wrong call on that one.

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 [...]

Thomas Hall is the new Adam Van Koeverden; Adam Van Koeverden is the new Brent Hayden

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 [...]

Lamaze Class; I can’t make a good pun on ‘Heymans’

So we have a bonafide coke-fiend as an Olympic gold medallist now, which is nice, I guess, even if it comes in a sport where the human isn’t really the athlete. I’m pretty sure that it’s safe to assume that Eric Lamaze is the first Olympic gold medallist to be kicked off of two previous [...]

Usain Bolt is costing me sleep

I’m blaming the CBC on this one, or, more accurately, http://cbc.ca/olympics, which indicated that the men’s 200m final would be streamed at 4:49am (Mountain). Of course, once 5am rolled around with no signs of Usain Bolt, I did some digging and discovered that the race wasn’t being run until 8:20am. And of course, at that [...]

CBC, TSN, and BOCOG: Make staying up to all hours worth my while

The first eight or nine days of the Olympics were perfectly scheduled: swimming finals in the morning, diving after those (before the swimmers came back for afternoon/evening heats), gymnastics or rowing right after the swimming, wrestling finals coming closer to the afternoon. It was perfect if, like me, you could last until 3 or 4 [...]

Scott Oake makes winning medals in rowing hard to watch

I like the job Barney Williams is doing as an analyst for the rowing, but it’s getting really bad to listen to Scott Oake call the last 200m of a race. I don’t know if his vantage point is poor or he just can’t read the angles on the monitor very well or what his [...]

The best part of wrestling

The best part of wrestling is the part where we get to hear our anthem played. But the second best part is where the ref checks the wrestlers, pre-fight, for nay foreign objects or anything like that.
But the best part comes this time thanks to Carol Huynh, a 27-year-old from Hazelton, BC that could clearly [...]