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18+--The Olympics Or Politics And Sport

Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:24 pm
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Chinese gymnist could lose her gold medal due to her being underage:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12728

Re: 18+--The Olympics Or Politics And Sport

Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2010 8:46 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
Canada ends their gold medal drought at home:

http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/story/2010/0 ... -view.html


I'm actually kinda happy he beat the other guy (a man who was born in Canada, left for Australia, runs a wealthy *SPAM* business, and refuses to speak to anyone but Australian media):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Begg-Smith


He would've wanted that gold so bad so us taking it from him is pretty sweet.


This Australian article sums it up pretty well and has some awesome pictures that show Begg-Smith being a bit of a sourpuss:

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/winter-o ... -o1iv.html

Re: 18+--The Olympics Or Politics And Sport

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 1:41 am
by THE JEW (RaVeN)
IOC orders Canadian blogger to take down video of Georgian who was killed on the ice track:
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/22/ ... art_pos=33


Basically, the IOC wants all the "profits" from his death to go to them.