Jefferson Perez the race walker and Jefferson Perez the scholar. Jefferson became Ecuador’s first Olympic medalist when he won the gold medal in the 20-km speed walking competition during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Although his gold in Atlanta remains his only Olympic medal to date, Jefferson has bagged a total of three gold medals in [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2008’
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Beijing’s Opening Ceremonies
Let’s include my favorite Anglican Archbishop, South Africa’s Archbishop Desmond Tutu in our list of party poopers. From Reuters: Archbishop Desmond Tutu urged world leaders on Sunday to stay away from the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in August. “The leaders of the free world, for goodness sake, don’t attend the opening ceremony of [...]
Selection Controversy: Liza Hunter-Galvan to Sue Athletics NZ
This is interesting. Some countries are finding it hard to find someone to represent them in the Olympics but New Zealand must have an abundance of talents as it has rejected two marathoners despite these two clocking “A-standard times”. But what exactly is “A-standard time”? Well, we don’t know but we might do a future [...]
BMX Racing: Individual Rankings as of April 2008
We were intrigued by BMX racing, the new Olympic sport which we blogged about earlier, so we decided to do more research on the racers who would do well in Beijing. What did we find out? It turns out that like our favorite sport, tennis, there is also a ranking system applied in BMX racing. [...]
Sport to Watch: BMX Racing in the Olympics
Bicycle Motocross or BMX racing will debut as an Olympic medal sport in Beijing 2008. Let’s see what the sport is like with this video of the UCI BMX Supercross Adelaide Elite Men Final in Australia. Can you feel the heat and the adrenalin? The guys in the video — Maris Strombergs, Jared Graves, David [...]
