Tag Archives: 2012 Summer Olympics
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Ryan Lochte: Great At Swimming, Terrible At Giving Interviews (Video)
Coming into the 2012 Summer Olympics, a lot of attention was paid to the rivalry in the pool between Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte. The two USA swimmers are the same age, but Phelps monopolized the spotlight in Athens in 2004 and Beijing in 2008. So nobody really noticed that Lochte had won 6 Olympic [...]
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20 Gymnastics Fail GIFs
Yesterday we told about American gymnast McKayla Maroney and her jaw-dropping vault during the team all-around competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was so good that it literally left the judges flabbergasted, and yet they didn’t award it a perfect score. Of course, losing a few tenths of a point didn’t hurt the USA [...]
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This Muhammad Ali Tribute Video By DJ Steve Porter Is Why Autotune Was Invented (Video)
One night before the 2012 Summer Olympics began, the U.S. Olympic Committee held their Team USA 2012 Benefit Gala at the USA House in London, which will serve as the Committee’s home base for the duration of the 30th Olympiad. And in attendance that night as a special guest of the Committee was none other [...]
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20 Hottest Olympic Gold Medalists (Summer Edition)
Two weeks ago we brought you a list of the hottest female athletes Olympians at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Then, last week, we brought you a list of the greatest female Olympians of all time. So what do we have for you this week? How about a combination of the two. That’s right. Today we [...]
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This Guy Is Super Excited About A French Swimmer’s Gold Medal Victory (Video)
With their national soccer team still in shambles following a disastrous 2010 World Cup and a Brit (Bradley Wiggins) winning the Tour de France this year, French sports fans haven’t had many sources of national sports pride lately. However, so far at the 2012 Summer Olympics, France has been doing pretty well in the pool, [...]
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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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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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15 Great Olympics Commercials
As everyone knows, the Olympics are about more than sports. They’re about the human spirit and the whole world coming together as one. Or at least, that’s what we’ve been told over the years by commercials seeking to capitalize on the popularity of the Games in order to sell more cheeseburgers and laundry detergent. Now, [...]
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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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13 Greatest Female Summer Olympians
The the 2012 Summer Olympics are now just a few short days away, and you know what that means: for the next 20 days or so, we’re all going to become experts on sports we previously knew nothing about, going on and on about how this diver arched her back too much as she entered [...]
