Tag Archives: Olympics
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The Mexican Diving Coach Is One Funny Dude (Video)
Ivan Garcia Navarro and German Sanchez Sanchez of Mexico’s Olympic synchronized diving team are pretty damn good. They proved that much when they earned the silver medal in the men’s 10-meter platform event on Monday. As for there coach, we aren’t quite sure if he is responsible for helping Ivan and German achieve such a [...]
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You’re Going To Be Outraged That This Woman Is Not Competing In The 2012 Summer Olympics (Video)
Yesterday we told you about your new favorite Olympian from the 2012 Games, Bulgaria’s Ivet Lalova. Be sure not to miss her competing in the women’s 100m and 200m sprints! Today, however, we’re going to tell you about your new favorite track athlete not at the Olympics this year. It’s a Slovenian triple jumper by [...]
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9 Highest Paid Olympic Athletes Of 2012
When most people think of Olympic athletes, they think of young men and women scraping by on nothing more than hard work and determination. And for the most part, that’s true. Chasing an Olympic dream is not usually a means to financial security. For the vast majority of athletes, it’s a labor of love that [...]
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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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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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9 Worst Dressed Countries At The 2012 Olympic Opening Ceremony
I’m not a fashion critic. In fact, I can barely dress myself. But I do know stupid when I see it (for example, my face). And as far as things looking stupid, watching the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympic Games was like hitting the mother load. To be fair, most traditional clothing from around [...]
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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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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, [...]
