Tag Archives: 2012 Summer Olympics
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Oscar Pistorius Charged with Murdering His Girlfriend
You know how you’ve read all those moving, inspirational stories about double-amputee Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, and what a hero he is? Yeah, well, never mind. All that stuff has been undone. The fact that this guy became the first double-amputee in history to compete in the Olympics against able-bodied athletes doesn’t really matter any [...]
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Watch Double-Amputee Oscar Pistorius Race a Horse (Video)
This summer, South Africa’s Oscar Pistorius captured the world’s attention when he became the first ever double-amputee to compete in the men’s 400m and 4x400m events at the Summer Olympics in London. So what’s be been up to since then? Well, right after he competed in the regular Olympics, he competed in the Paralympics. And [...]
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25 Best GIFs From The 2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics may be gone forever, but their greatest (and worst…not to mention their most hilarious) moments will live on forever. In what form will these moments live on forever? Well, it won’t be in video, that’s for sure. The IOC has already begun scouring the world wide web, looking for illicitly uploaded [...]
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The 15 Best Stories From The 2012 Summer Olympics
The Olympics always give us a wide variety of stories to tell—stories about legendary performances, human perseverance, or athletes overcoming adversity. And the 2012 Summer Olympics were no different. We saw athletes playing through injuries, inspiring nations, making entire stadiums laugh, and, of course, making entire stadiums erupt with deafening cheers. So today we take [...]
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Jamaican Fan Attacks Usain Bolt (With Kisses) After His Victory In 4x100m (Video)
I imagine quite a few ladies had their hearts broken after Usain Bolt and his Jamaican teammates won gold in the men’s 4x100m at the Olympics on Saturday, setting a new world record in the process. Why? Because after the race they would have seen Bolt get greeted by an extremely joyful and affectionate woman [...]
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Cash 4 Gold: What Countries Pay for Gold Medal Winners at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Well, the 2012 Summer Olympics are finally over. It was all a lot of fun but, unfortunately, now it’s time to pay the bill. What bill, you ask? Well, I’m not talking about the bill the taxpayers of London are going to be paying off for the next 20 years—the bill for the games themselves. [...]
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11 Sexiest Countries at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Well, after two solid weeks, the 2012 Summer Olympics are starting to wind down, with just a couple more days of action before the closing ceremonies on Sunday. And I don’t know about you, but I always find it a little sad when the Olympics are over. After all, they give us so many interesting [...]
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Olympic Celebration Fail: Water Polo Coach Jumps Into Pool, On Player’s Head (Video)
Unlike other team sports, such as soccer and basketball, women’s water polo is relatively new to the Summer Olympics, having been added only 12 years ago for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. And unlike those other sports, the USA has not completely dominated women’s water polo. Coming into London 2012, the Americans had medaled [...]
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US Gymnasts Are Hitting The Town Now That Their Events Have Concluded (Video)
Now that the women’s gymnastics competition has finally concluded at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the American gymnasts—so successful this year—can finally relax and have some fun in one of the world’s greatest cities. So what does relaxing and having fun entail if you are gold medalists Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, and [...]
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50 Hot Beach Volleyball Photos from the 2012 Summer Olympics
The women’s beach volleyball competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics wrapped up yesterday with Team USA defeating Team USA for the gold medal—Misty May-Treanor and Kerry Walsh Jennings beat April Ross and Jennifer Kessey, earning their third consecutive gold medal. Of course, now that beach volleyball is all done, there’s pretty much no reason to [...]
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More Video and Pictures of the Olympic Bottle Thrower Surface
Remember the other day when we told you about Usain Bolt‘s historic victory in the men’s 100m final, and how some guy threw a bottle out onto the track right before the starter fired his pistol? Well, the bottle-thrower’s name is Ashley Gill-Webb. He’s a vending machine repair man from South Milford in North Yorkshire, [...]
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Watch This Pole Snap In Three Places During Cuban Pole Vaulter’s First Attempt (Video)
Imagine you’re a pole vaulter. You bust your butt training six days a week for ten years, hoping to one day make the Olympics and get a shot at the ultimate prize; an Olympic medal. Now imagine you made the Olympics, and your big day has arrived. All you have to do is go out [...]
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German Discus Thrower Robert Harting Celebrates Gold Medal Like A Boss (Videos)
Basketball players have the NBA Championship. Soccer players have the World Cup. Tennis players have the Grand Slams. However, for most athletes at the 2012 Summer Games, the Olympics are the absolute highest level of competition, and nothing could mean more than winning a gold medal. It’s what they dreamed about since they were kids, [...]
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Olympic Gossip: Rumors Fly About Kobe Bryant’s Friendship With Australia’s Stephanie Rice (Pics)
You know what really sucks about cheating on your wife—you know, besides having to live with the fact that you’ve violated her trust and left her emotionally devastated? It’s that, for the rest of your life, any time somebody sees you in public with a woman who is not you wife (assuming she didn’t dump [...]
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15 Olympians And Their Celebrity Look-Alikes
The Olympics have a way of radically transforming the lives of athletes. One month a 17-year swimmer can walk down the street and nobody knows who she is. The next she’s a bona fide celebrity appearing on cereal boxes and doing interviews on the Today Show. Of course, not every Olympian needs success at the [...]
