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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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.
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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