By the way, I am loving this web feed from CBC. No commentators. No talking. Just the game.
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Canada – China Women’s soccer
I just tuned into this qualifying game (for the quarter finals). The Canadian team is dominating right now. Some nice moves by top scorer Christine Sinclair. Some good saves by the Chinese keeper. I am so balanced.
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Ralph Lauren meet Quentin Tarantino
On the Ralph Lauren website, you, o’ unathletic one, can purchase the Olympic collection. Except it looks nothing like what you see below. This icky little number looks like it was pulled off the scrap pile from Kill Bill. He’s also selling some bad striped belts and puffy denim hats. Remember when everyone had those […]
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Ralph Lauren reads my mind
Leave it to Ralph Lauren to design my dream Olympic outfit: classy, nicely fitted and sharp. Very Chariots of Fire on the way to the champagne polo court. (Who me? Oh no sir, I only skeet shoot at the club.) Of course in the real world, I’m not allowed to wear white pants. And in […]
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Beach volleyball discussion
Neal 3:25pmwhat the WTF is happening with the olympics this weekend?(I love the old-man-not-getting-it of what the WTF)Sue 3:28ha! I checked CBC’s schedule and if you can figure out, I applaud you!Neal 3:28I’m just going by what’s playing live.or I’ll hook up the TV and go spend $3894893958908245 on a new battery for my piece […]
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Last kick at the opening ceremonies parade of nations
I think I know where this tiny island nation is investing their olympic energy.
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Geek ALERT!!
Just to go back to Neal’s post about Guyana and Canada. There’s been some thinking about this in the last couple years. Researchers Andrew Bernard and Meghan Busse managed to predict the total number of medals that Australia would win the 2000 Sydney Olympics to within one medal based on a comlicated mix of economics, […]
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MSNBC: “We can’t hear you!”
Alan Abrahamson, who’s live-blogging form the actual Olympic stadium and not from Sue Carter Flinn’s couch, is complaining that the Chinese don’t behave like ugly Americans: The last team to enter, per Olympic protocol, the host nation: China. The roar from the crowd is loud but not deafening.
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American protestors detained during ceremony
According to Associated Press, three American pro-Tibet protesters were detained near the Olympic venue.
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My Olympics includes Regis
I can’t believe I forgot mention this before! When I turned to NBC during one of many commercials on CBC, I was expecting to see some red, white and blue, y’all. But what were they broadcasting, smack in the middle of the opening ceremonies? Regis and Kelly!! Actually, it wasn’t even Reg, it was Kelly […]
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meta Olympic blogging
CBC in its infinitesimally small wisdom is running their live web site’s live feed through a Mac-unfriendly Media Player thingamjig (probably not the technical term). Someone sent me a link to a British proxy server that through the miracle of the intertubes is somehow connected to a German TV network’s live feed, but all I’m […]
