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 [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘diving’
August 20, 2008
Olympic Round-up: More medals than Cuba; up next: The Netherlands
I took the weekend off, mainly because the girlfriend gets all snippy when I spend my time constructing epic posts about CBC announcers instead of paying attention to her. And of course, Canada pulls off like 6 more medals, making all the bitchers from five days ago eat their words (note that, as a bitcher, [...]
August 13, 2008
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 [...]
