So with the Olympics over and the softballers all sad that their sport is done, it brings up the question of why? Why is the IOC removing softball (or, more specifically, baseball—I kind of get softball) from the Olympic games? I don’t get why they remove sports at all unless those sports are no [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Equestrian’
August 21, 2008
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 [...]
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, [...]
