Jennie Finch here is my favourite Olympic athlete ever. When she showed up to the ESPYs that year in that black dress and went about her business of being all hot and stuff, I was intrigued. When she struck out Mike Cameron on a softball field, I decided that she would forever be the unobtainable [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Priscilla Lopes-Schliep’
August 25, 2008
Olympic Leftovers: Thoughts from the track
Out of nowhere bronze from Priscilla Lopes-Schliep aside, it was a pretty pathetic output from the track and field team once again this year. The saddest part of the decline of Canadian athletics, which has won only Lopes-Schliep’s bronze since the double gold in 1996, is that we’ve put together some strong track teams that [...]
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 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 the afternoon. It was perfect if, like me, you could last until 3 or 4 [...]
