All your whining has paid off. Carol Huynh has guaranteed Canada’s first Olympic medal. She defeated the tough-ass lookin’ Kazakhstan wrestler, advancing to the gold medal match of women’s freestyle 48-kilogram wrestling.
Oh, and we’re beating the Americans in men’s baseball, 4-3, 6th inning…
So can we stop talking about Phelps now? Please? Even though I find articles like this one in Guardian amusing (if only because as a journalist I’m still waiting for the assignment where I get to eat stacks of giant sandwiches and pounds of pasta).
This article appears in Aug 14-20, 2008.