Tag Archives: Olympics
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Olympics BMX Crash Wipes Out The Competition (Video)
New Zealand BMX racer Marc Willers will probably never win an easier race in his life. During the opening quarterfinal run in the third heat of yesterday’s men’s cycling BMX race, Willers took a lead heading into the second-last turn of the race, and that small lead payed incredibly large dividends, as he was able [...]
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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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Google’s Homepage Has A Cool Kayak Game
As if Google hasn’t already provided us all with enough through their incredibly efficient and extensive search engine, throughout these Olympics Games they have decided to give us even more, via their series of addictive Google Doodle Olympic Games, which allow you to play a different Olympic sport each day before you get on with [...]
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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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New Zealand Female Field Hockey Player Whacked In The Head By Dutch Player’s Stick (GIF)
For those who enjoy watching all of the reckless slashing and hitting of the NHL, but also enjoy watching sexy women running around in short dresses, we have the perfect sport for you… Women’s field hockey! In case you haven’t noticed, women’s field hockey has been taking place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, [...]
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France’s Nicolas Batum Punches Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro In The Groin (Video)
France was eliminated from the 2012 Olympic men’s basketball tournament earlier today after losing their quarterfinal game to Spain by a score of 66-59. And while this may have been the last that we will see of this French team in London, they certainly left their mark… Unfortunately for Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro, that so-called [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Here’s The Worst Olympic Dive You Will Ever See (GIF)
If this were a “who can make the biggest splash” competition, Stephan Feck of Germany would have easily earned a perfect score. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t a “biggest splash” competition. It was a 3-meter springboard diving event at the 2012 London Olympics, and it earned him a last place finish in the competition and [...]
