Tag Archives: 2012 Summer Olympics
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Some Old Dude Told Aly Raisman’s Dad To Sit Down After Her Gold Medal Floor Routine (Video)
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching the Olympics and all the sappy Olympics commercials this year, it’s that it is probably harder to be the parent of an Olympic athlete than it is to be the athletes themselves—not physically, of course, but emotionally. How so? Because they’re just as emotionally involved in the [...]
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Usain Bolt Wants To Try Out For Manchester United
So apparently the World’s Fastest Man, Usain Bolt, thinks he could cut it as a professional soccer player on one of the best teams in the greatest league in the world. Nobody ever said the guy lacked confidence. On Monday, the 2008 and 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the 100m sprint told UK paper The [...]
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Alex Morgan Scores Last Second Goal, USA Women’s Soccer Team Beats Canada 4-3 (Video)
Men’s soccer may be the dumbest sport at the Summer Olympics, but you can’t say that for the women’s tournament. All the best players on all the best teams in the world are there, and the competition is fierce. Case in point: yesterday’s back-and-forth overtime semifinal between Canada and the USA, which some are already [...]
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Excited Belgian Sailing Fans Drop A Few F-Bombs During Interview With BBC (Video)
It’s hardly uncommon to see sports fans get a little too excited and spew a few expletives on live TV while being interviewed by reporters after a huge victory. It’s just that they’re usually celebrating a huge victory in events like the Super Bowl. But then, there’s the beauty of the Olympics. Once every four [...]
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Double Amputee Oscar Pistorius Made History Yesterday By Running In The Men’s 400m Semifinal In London (Video)
Olympic athletes are inspiring enough as it is, what with all the hard work and dedication it took for every last one of them just to make it to the Games. However, even among Olympians, Oscar Pistorius is in a class all by himself. You see, this 25-year-old South African athlete was born with what [...]
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Yet Another Awesome Kick Save From Olympic Volleyball (Video)
Last week we told you about the incredible kick save made by Brazilian volleyball player Fabiana Oliveira. Well, apparently Don Suxho of the USA men’s volleyball team didn’t want to be outdone, so he provided a brilliant kick-save highlight of his own. During the first set of the USA’s match against Russia this past Saturday, [...]
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The 11 Dumbest Sports at the Summer Olympics
One of the best things about the Olympics is that you get to watch sports you don’t normally see. One of the worst things about the Olympics, however, is that some of these sports are just straight up dumb. What makes an Olympic sport dumb, you ask? Well, it could be any one of a [...]
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Usain Bolt Wins Gold in 100-Meters At Olympics…Also Has Bottle Thrown At Him (Video & GIF)
Yesterday we finally saw “the marquee event” (according to all the pundits) of the 2012 Summer Olympics—the men’s 100m sprint. And it turned out to be just as much a foregone conclusion as we thought it would be, with Jamaica’s Usain Bolt winning it fairly easily, snatching his second consecutive gold medal in this event [...]
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This Venezuelan Boxing Fan Knows How To Pump Up The Crowd (Video)
The Olympics are always exciting on television, because the main networks really only show you the best events. But you have to remember that for every swimming final featuring Ryan Lochte or every track event featuring Ivet Lalova, there’s a team handball match between Angola and Croatia, or a rhythmic gymnastics event featuring a bunch [...]
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TNT Should Hire Irish Basketball Announcer Timmy McCarthy (Video)
It sure would be nice to be at the 2012 Summer Olympics in person, but let’s face it. Not many people have the time or money to fly halfway around the world to watch sports for two weeks. For this reason, the announcers are especially important when you watch the Olympics on television. They need [...]
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15 Biggest Summer Olympics Scandals
When you gather 10,500 athletes from 205 nations together for a major international sports competition, you can expect a good scandal or two. But the 2012 Summer Olympics are just one week old, and we’ve already seen four fairly historic controversies—two regarding the outcomes of events, and one that almost kept an event from happening [...]
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Brazilian Volleyball Player Fabiana Oliveira Gives Us The Highlight Of The Olympics So Far (Video)
On Thursday, Hungarian water polo player Marton Szivos had the play of the Olympics, scoring a gorgeous backhanded goal after passing the ball to himself with his foot. But if you thought that play couldn’t be topped, you were wrong. As it turns out, one day earlier, there was an even more incredible play in [...]
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Nigerian Basketball Player Breaks James Harden’s Ankles With Crossover (Video)
The USA men’s basketball team didn’t even come close to losing it’s first two games at the 2012 Summer Olympics. However, they’ve still received some criticism for their slow, sluggish starts. On Thursday, however, they silenced their critics by blitzing Nigeria right from the get-go, en route to a record setting 156-73 victory. What records [...]
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Hungary Water Polo Player Marton Szivos Scored A Highlight Reel Goal Against Romania (Video)
There are some sports we just don’t cover too much here at Total Pro Sports. It’s not that we don’t like them. It’s just that the highlights are kind of hard to come by. But right now that is not the case. With the 2012 Summer Olympics in full swing, we can bring you amazing [...]
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Meet William Bell, the 90-Year-Old Pole Vaulter (Video)
Earl Bell is a former American Olympian. He held the world record for pole vaulting (19′ 0¼”) for one month in 1976, and he won a bronze medal in the event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Today, Earl is one of the top American pole vaulting coaches, operating a training facility in [...]
