Funny – I don’t see any vendors hawking hot dogs or kebabs or popcorn in the stadium. According to the Wall St Journal, stadium food in Beijing isn’t so good. They can’t sell anything you can throw. The guy in the article got potato chips and some piggies in a blanket. Man, I am nervous. […]
Andy Murdoch
Andy Murdoch is an awesome guy.
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US – Canada women’s soccer
Thank god for rain delays. It gave the Canadian women a chance to get their game on. Their defense is tight. They effectively shut down the American strikers since the last rain delay. Most of the play has been at midfield or in the American end. And – they tied the game. Canada – 100% […]
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US – Canada women’s soccer
Christine Sinclair takes a long shot from far and outside and it sails right into the American net! IT’S TIED, YOU DAMNED YANKEES! Rain delay was about an hour. Canada has replaced their keeper. Looks like McLeod was injured. Leblanc is in. Canada is playing as well as I’ve seen them. Putting on good pressure […]
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US – Canada women’s soccer
The US started off the game by running straight through our defenses and shooting on goal. It went over the cross bar, but sent the message to everyone: they think they have our number. Admittedly, there have been hairy moments. Canada is struggling to contain the Americans. The Canadian team is pumped for this. I […]
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Shotputters make better beer drinkers
The big spinning men who spend four years perfecting the art of balancing big steel balls between their chin and hand and throwing them as far as they can must love drinking beer. They all look – every one of them from Norway to Germany to Latvia – like perfect cuts of beef, but with […]
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Pep talk time
My favourite comment on the medal drought comes from a commenter on the CBC blog. Cheek Monk said we shouldn’t fund olympians at all. We should make them train in the Canadian wilderness, against bears, wolves, blizzards and beavers. Alright. Maybe that idea has legs. But – there are a lot of Leafs fans in […]
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Let’s do lunch
MV: And welcome back to Beijing. All right, guys, I have a question for you.AC: Hm.MV: Have you eaten lunch today?AC: No.ML: Yes.MV: I don’t really want to know. That is the Chinese way of saying, `What’s up?’ Hey.AC: Oh.MV: That’s–the translation is “Have you eaten lunch?” It comes from a time when people really […]
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Already, the backlash begins
Sherraine Schalm, our best chance for a fencing medal, just got knocked out of the epee competition. In a quote that ought to go down in the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, she told the CBC, “It’s like I imagine being a man. It’s like being kicked in the nuts repeatedly, that’s how bad it […]
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77kg class weightlifting
The Turk tried it. The Japanese lifter tried it. The Russian tried it. They all dropped the weights. Then the Armenian tried it. He went up. Took a few breaths. Some people yelled stuff at him. The small crowd laughed. The Armenian gripped the weight. He bent over, took another breath with his face next […]
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What we know about Michael Phelps
He co-starred in “Unfiltered” a documentary about the sport of equestrian swimming. He founded ‘Swim with the stars’. He was found guilty of drunk driving in 2004. He is: only 22 and already a legend. Well in front. On his way to olympic immortality. From a broken home in Baltimore and likes Young Jeezy. The […]
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Olympic viewing drops reality bomb
Details that make me question reality: You can view events live on the East Coast (well, Eastern time) but not on the West Coast. Live is not live anymore. 75% of NBC’s coverage is live (on the East Coast), but an army of commentators sit and broadcast from New York, not Beijing. These people sit […]
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Soap dodgers?
Sometimes, you wonder why the Australians get compared to Americans. Then an Aussie opens his sour grapes mouth and it’s all ‘you limeys should shower before you enter the pool’ or something to that effect. It’s hard to see who comes off worse here – the oppressive over-confidence of the British once they’ve actually won […]