Posts from — March 2008

Okay, after that ghost-assisted decision to make this blog about Olympians, here’s our first post on a certified Olympic star. Guys and gals (but especially gals), meet Liu Xiang.

We’re sure the Olympic enthusiasts among you already know who he is but for those of you who don’t, here are three things you should know about him.

First, Liu Xiang won the gold medal for the 110 meter hurdles during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Second, Xiang has very big shoes. And you know what people say about men with large shoes, right? You don’t? Okay, here’s what they say: Men with large shoes have big FEET. [Click and drag to highlight hidden word.] Here’s Xiang and his indisputably large shoes.

Finally, the third thing you should know about Xiang is that he will show you a fantastic Air Liu if you go to the Beijing Olympics.

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About one week after we started, this blog is still having an identity crisis. At the back of our mind we have the ghost of Darren Rowse saying, “What is your niche? What tone of voice will you use? What’s your focus? Niche. Niche. Niche. Do you really think you can blog everything, as in everything, about the Olympics? You can’t beat ESPN, you know.”

And we’re like, “Shut up, Darren. Get away, ghost. Get away from us!”

So having banished the imaginary ghost of Darren, we went “Hmmm, our domain is theolympianblog.com, maybe we should blog about Olympians, you know, those Olympic athletes.”

Awww. Shouldn’t we have known that already? Subconsciously, maybe that is what we wanted to do. But the idea didn’t immediately surface to the “conscious realm” because we spent a lot of time looking for blog templates, header images, and that kind of stuff.

Anyways, after that bit of “enlightenment”, who would come back if not the ghost of Darren. Yes, he just popped back via our Google Reader and he went like, “So who are you blogging about? You should blog about the Aussie Olympians because they’re THE awesome.”

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As Olympic theme songs go, Forever Friends a.k.a the Beijing Olympic theme song is alright. It has all the right words to appeal to our desire for brotherhood/sisterhood, universal friendship, peace and unity, achieving the common dreams of humankind, etc. etc.

Simon Cowell might call it “sappy”, “kinda old fashioned”, and “weddingy” but that’s Simon Cowell. There ain’t no pleasing that man. Us? We are kinda okay with it. It’s “aiight” as Randy Jackson would say. It passes the grade. And we very much like the embedded Chinese sound too.

Still, we’re hoping that the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games (BOCOG) will ditch their theme song for Renaldo Lapuz’s We’re Brothers Forever. Why, you ask? Well, if you haven’t seen this video already, here’s the answer to your “Why”.

Awesome isn’t it? In fact some people (i.e. some Pinoys who have very little else to be proud of) would say that the song is beyond awesome.

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These days, Tibetan independence groups are doing a good job of publicizing the issue of China’s occupation of Tibet. Good for them, we must say.

Do protest actions like the one in the video embarrass the Chinese government? Definitely yes. But will they embarrass the Chinese government to the point that it’s left with no choice but to leave Tibet? Very unlikely.

Still, didn’t a wise man say that tiny ripples can create tsunamis? So who knows what these ripples of protests can do for the Tibetan’s dream of independence. It might look unattainable in 2008 but it can very well happen in the years to come. Go Tibet!

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According to Australia’s ABC News, the United Kingdom may be spending around one billion dollars (we assume we’re talking Australian currency here) to land in fourth place during this upcoming Beijing Olympic Games.

They’re gonna spend that much money? We’re all for Olympic pride and glory but isn’t there such a thing as too much spending?