Olympics
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Swiss Soccer Player Michel Morganella Sent Home From Olympics For Racist Tweet
Last week, Greek triple-jump champion Voula Papachristou was banned from participating in the Olympics due to a racist Tweet that read, “with so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat homemade food.” Now, Swiss soccer player Michel Morganella has become the second athlete to be sent home from the 2012 Summer [...]
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Colombian Soccer Player Suspended Two Games For Sucker Punch That Gave Abby Wambach A Black Eye (Video)
All athletes representing their respective countries at the Olympics are expected to exude the qualities of sportsmanship and fair play while competing at the Games. Apparently, Lady Andrade of the Colombian women’s soccer team didn’t get that memo, as she demonstrated anything but sportsmanship and fair play when she punched American soccer star Abby Wambach [...]
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Woman Crashes Indian Delegation’s Walk-In At Olympics Opening Ceremonies
If you happened to be watching the Opening Ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Games this past Friday, you may have noticed something strange when the Indian delegation made their way into the stadium: a woman who didn’t quite seem to belong there. How would you be able to tell that she didn’t belong there? Well, [...]
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Move Over, Michelle Jenneke, The World Has A New Favorite Sexy Warmup Routine (Video)
If you don’t yet have a favorite athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics, you do now. Her name is Ivet Lalova, she’s 28 years old, and she’s a sprinter from Bulgaria. Why is she your favorite athlete at these Olympics? Because she’s incredibly talented and has worked hard her whole life to make it to [...]
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And The First Wardrobe Malfunction Of The 2012 London Summer Olympics Goes To…
…this judo competitor, who couldn’t seem to escape the disrobing grasp of her opponent. After conducting a thorough investigation, we are led to believe that this picture was taken during a Bronze Medal quarter-final match from the Women’s 48kg Judo competition at ExCel Arena on Saturday. The women who is flashing a little more than [...]
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Michelle Obama Was Handing Out Official Congratulatory Hugs To The USA Men’s Basketball Team (Video)
The Obama administration decided to send First Lady Michelle Obama as the country’s official representative for the Olympic opening ceremonies this past Friday. It made sense, too, given the First Lady’s “Let’s Move” campaign aimed at ending the childhood obesity epidemic—she could stand in for the President (who’s kind of busy campaigning right now) and [...]
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Legally Blind Olympic Archer Has Already Broken Two World Records
The 2012 Summer Olympics are only a day old (and the Opening Ceremonies haven’t even taken place yet), but we’ve already had a number of firsts. Yesterday we told you about the first controversy of the Games, which sprang up when organizers running the women’s soccer match between North Korea and Colombia put the South [...]
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Is American Swimmer Ryan Lochte Hooking Up With Sexy Australian Swimmer Blair Evans? (Gallery)
American swimmer Ryan Lochte is a very accomplished Olympian. At the 2004 Summer Games in Athens, he took home a gold (4x100m freestyle) and a silver, and at the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing he took home two more golds (4x200m freestyle and 200m backstroke), plus a pair of bronzes. However, Lochte will probably be [...]
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Olympic Soccer Fail: Swiss’ Admir Mehmedi Misses Open Net From Two Feet Away (Video)
Look, we know it sucks to play soccer at the Olympics. Despite being the most popular sport in the world, soccer is also one of the most irrelevant sports at the Games. Why? Because the old dudes who run FIFA are sticks in mud who don’t want the Olympics to compete with the World Cup, [...]
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Olympics Organizers Insult North Korea By Running South Korean Flag At Soccer Game (Video)
North Korea and South Korea: one of them is a free democratic society that makes Samsungs and Hyundais; the other is a brutal cult-like dictatorships that can’t feed it’s own people. Do you know which one is which? If so, good for you! Unfortunately, the person in charge of putting graphics up on the jumbotron [...]
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Jimmy Kimmel: Turns Out A Lot Of People Think The London Olympics Mascot Looks Like A Dong (Video)
If the official logo and mascots of the 2012 London Olympics are any indication, the upcoming Games will be pretty weird. Actually, they are already off to a weird start, since they accidentally ran the South Korean flag at a women’s soccer match featuring North Korea, which prompted the North Koreans to protest the error [...]
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Jonas Valanciunas With The Off-The-Backboard Alley-Oop (Video)
As a Toronto Raptors fan, I wasn’t all that impressed when the team used their fifth-overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft to pick Lithuanian center Jonas Valanciunas. After all, there were still some big-name NCAA players on the board, like Kentucky’s Brandon Knight and UConn’s Kemba Walker. But then Valanciunas averaged an impressive 23 points, [...]
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Check Out This Footage of the 1992 Dream Team Scrimmaging (Video)
This story is about a basketball scrimmage. Wait, don’t leave. It’s not about just any scrimmage. It’s about a scrimmage between members of the 1992 U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team—the original Dream Team. The one Kobe Bryant thinks the 2012 version could beat with “athleticism.” Apparently, in the final days leading up to the 1992 [...]
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Greek Athlete Expelled From Olympics For Racist Tweet
The Olympics are supposed to be a time when athletes of all colors, nationalities, religious, shapes and sizes can come together and celebrate sportsmanship and unity (which is depicted through the five interlocked rings of the Olympic symbol–which represent each of the five participating continents) with one another… …Just don’t tell that to Greek triple-jump [...]
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Some Idiot Tried to Steal the Olympic Torch the Other Day (Video)
With the 2012 Summer Olympics just days away now, the famous torch relay is approaching its last legs. It began back on May 10, when they lit the flame at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece. Then, on May 16, they put the flame on an Airbus A319 and sent it to England, and [...]
