Here’s a photo of Alex Fong Lik-Sun, the swimmer turned actor/singer we blogged about yesterday. Watch his music video here in case you missed it.

Is he angry at someone? Maybe he’s shouting at pro-Tibet demonstrators? Nah! Maybe he’s just over excited. After all, not everyone is given the honor to carry the torch like the former Olympians from Malaysia and India who were, unfortunately, snubbed by their sports officials.

Don’t look now but it turns out that we are not the only ones who think that one of them Canadian Olympic outfits look like pajamas.

From a woman quoted by the National Post: “It looks like your pyjamas. It’s pretty busy. Usually, women like men in uniforms, but I don’t think this one cuts it.”

Meanwhile, over at CBC the Olympic uniforms, not just the unfortunate pajama-looking one which caught our attention, are also being dissed by commenters. A sampling of the comments:

Just my opinion, but these have got to be the ugliest uniforms I have ever seen! If you are going to use other colours besides red and white, then they need to pop. These are dull and faded, not bright and vibrant.

It may just be me but one of the biggest turn offs of these new outfits is that they don’t look new. The outfits look like they have been through the washing machine a 100 times and look faded.

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This is just sad. Someone needs to help this guy. He’s American but if his free fall continues, he might end up like former Nigerian star athletes who, according to Olusuji Fasuba, end up begging in the streets.

Associated Press: Former track star Tim Montgomery has been indicted on heroin distribution charges, the Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk reported Thursday.

The 33-year-old sprinter was arrested Wednesday on a sealed indictment, accused of dealing more than 100 grams of heroin in Virginia over the past year, according to the newspaper.

Montgomery was being held at the Portsmouth city jail, said Karin Johnson, public information officer for the Portsmouth sheriff’s office. She said U.S. marshals brought him in Wednesday night.

Montgomery told the newspaper he knew nothing of the accusations and that his arrest was a “total surprise.”

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Let’s include Melanie Roach in our Dara Mama Club. But what’s the Dara Mama Club? Uhm, its a special category we are creating here at The Olympian Blog referring to moms who have qualified or are trying to qualify for the Beijing Olympics. We are naming the club after the first Olympic mom we blogged about, U.S. swimmer Dara Torres.

Above photo shows Melanie Roach with her son Drew who was diagnosed with autism. You can read Melanie’s very touching story and her upcoming attempt to qualify for the Olympics here. We hope she makes it to Beijing. Go Melanie! Go Dara Mamas!

Nigeria: Nigerian duo Olusoji Fasuba and Damola Osayemi won the men’s and women’s 100m in the second day of action at the 16th CAA African Athletics Championships.

Osayemi bagged the gold medal over women’s defending champion Vida Anim of Ghana who took the silver and Cameroon’s Delphine Atangana who settled for the bronze.

Meanwhile, Fasuba defended his African title against compatriot Uchenna Emedolu and South African Hannes Dreyer who took the bronze.

Guinea: In the women’s 110m hurdles, Fatuma Feofanah beat Nigerian race favorite Toyin Augustus to bag Guinea’s first ever gold medal in the African Championships. She set a Guinea national record (13.10) with her victory.

Morocco: Barrabah Yahya won the men’s long jump (8.04m) beating Mauritius’ Jonathan Chimier (7.99m) and Stefan Louw (7.08m) who settled for the silver and bronze medals respectively.

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