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I just spent a couple of hours at the medical clinic (yes, for a sports injury, ha), which gave me a chance to catch up on my Olympic reading. Here’s what I learned: From today’s Globe and Mail:–families are fighting over Olympic coverage. Not because one member hates beach volleyball (ahem), but because some family […]

OK, so last night I wrote about the Russian flyweight that dissed the Ukrainian boxer who beat him, by refusing to shake his hand after the match. I just watched the American world champ boxer, Rau’shee Warren, do the same thing to Korea’s winning Lee Ok-Sung! Ok-Sung looked kinda confused about Warren’s snub, following him […]

AFP is reporting that pigtailed little Lin Miaoke, who sang at the opening ceremonies, was chosen for her looks by Chinese bureaucrats because the party thought the real singer, Yang Peiyi was too fat and had crooked teeth. In a rehearsal, China’s ruling Communist Party politburo, who came to check it out, said something along […]

I think the equestrian events are the most graceful of the whole olympics. Those huge beasts ridden by tiny characters in funny hats makes me wish I knew how to ride a horse. This in contrast to the marathon runners, who make me wish I didn’t have to do something so long and tiring as […]

Okay, we lost, but really we won. It wasn’t a bad, humiliating loss. Maybe the Swedes gave our ladies a collective skinned knee, but we both advanced. Correction: I got my talk all wrong in the earlier posts. Sweden earn second place in Group E with two wins and a loss; we get third place […]

er, if this is true, shouldn’t Canadian athletes, with, ya know, the red and white uniforms and the red and white flags following them everywhere, be, like, winning more medals? BEIJING (Reuters) – Red might be more than just a lucky color for Chinese athletes competing at the Olympics. A study has found choosing the […]