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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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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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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