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by | August 20, 2008

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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by | August 19, 2008

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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by | August 17, 2008

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 … Continue reading →

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by | August 16, 2008

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 … Continue reading →

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