Archive for the 'Olympics' Category
the 2010 Winter Olympics Torch
What does that look like to you?
from Reuters:
Organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are taking the mellow approach to suggestions that their planned Olympic torch looks like a marijuana cigarette.
"We're not worried about it at all," Dave Cobb, the executive vice-president of the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) told ...
Sepp Looking To Lower Olympic Age Limit
FIFA President Sepp Blatter has come out publicly about the Executive Committee's desire to lower the current Under - 23 age limit with 3 overage players to an Under - 21 Tournament.
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FIFA & UEFA In Agreement Over Olympic Ideas?
It's starting to look like there could be a couple of major changes ahead of the next Olympics after UEFA declared it's support of FIFA President Sepp Blatter's comments regarding over-age players and a possible lowering of the current U-23 age limit.
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Phelps Bong Rip
Here is the picture of Mike Phelps hittin' it that showed up over the weekend in the UK Tabloid News of the World. Apparently he was visiting a shorty who goes to the University of South Carolina, and he decided to roll to a house party. I must say, he has pretty good technique and I'm sure that with all that time in the pool, this cat has a lung ...
Messi Showing Off His Gold
Don't you just love how Messi's casually swinging around his 2008 Olympic Gold Medal as he's showing it off to the Spanish Press like it's some old key ring.
Guess after all the drama that was surrounding Messi's departure for the games, no one is going to hold it against him now that he's got the Gold in his pocket.
Remote Controlled Javelin Retrievers
The Olympics are officialy over, so many of you might not want to see any more stories about them. But I had to share this one. Apparently China decided that having human beings retrieve javelins was something that they wanted to get rid of, so instead they had remote controlled cars do the job.
Two kids who look to be in their mid teens sit in chairs ...
Seriously?
Matos shoved the referee and kicked him in the head in a furious reaction to be disqualified. The Cuban took gold in the 2000 Olympics, but he did not take kindly to being disqualified halfway through the bout for taking too long to return to action after an injury.
Matos was leading 3-2, when he fell to the mat after being hit by his ...
Beijing Closing Ceremonies
Becks, Leona Lewis and Jimmy Page on thier involvement in the handing over of the torch in Beijing.