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 [...]

What is … Michael Phelps?

CBC is asking who’s the greatest Olympian ever? And wondering if it’s Phelps, Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, Paavo Nurmi, Larissa Latynina or someone like Jesse Owens or Steven Redgrave.
The answer is quite clearly Michael Phelps, but I’ll break it down even further to prove why it’s him.
First off, the case for Phelps, and it’s so [...]