Posts Tagged as ‘Olympics’

September 2, 2008

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 somthing like “OLD!!!!11!!! Learn 2 blog n00b” after reading my lede) to when Canada sat [...]

August 30, 2008

MOAR PLZ!!!!

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 [...]

August 19, 2008

Bringing out the big guns

In a rare case of forgetting my iPod when leaving the house today, I found myself forced to listen to the dead medium that is FM radio while cruising around with my sunroof open and whistling at attractive soccer moms as if I were a construction worker or Raffi Torres.
Anyways, I had SONiC on because [...]

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 down even further to prove why it’s him.
First off, the case for Phelps, and it’s so [...]

August 6, 2008

Pollution, censorship, and human rights violations, oh my

With the Opening Ceremonies going for the Beijing Olympics on Friday (which may be Thursday here, I’m not sure about the time difference yet), I’m gearing up for a couple of weeks in front of the TV with odd sleeping hours. I love the Olympics with the sort of unconditional love normally reserved for my [...]