Meet the newest member of our Dara Mama Club: Australian basketball player, Rohanee Cox. Here’s some info about Rohanee from olympics.com.au:
During the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) season in 2000, Rohanee Cox suffered severe anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) damage to her left knee.
The injury looked sure to end her basketball career when two seasons later [...]
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Rohanee Cox Goes to Beijing
Pistorius Saga: The Wise Words of Pierre Weiss
Jesus H. Christ. It sounds like those grumpy athletic officials really, really dislike Oscar Pistorius. How can you explain the following statement by IAAF General Secretary Pierre Weiss:
The decision by CAS (the Court of Arbitration in Sport which allowed Pistorius to compete with able-bodied runners) applies to all athletics events. But if he runs in [...]
Yelena Gets Hotter Than Hot
Our Olympic hottie Yelena Isinbayeva keeps getting hotter and hotter. Translation: She just broke the world record in women’s pole vault.
Yelena, the “sex symbol of male couch potatoes”, vaulted 5.03 meters during the Rome Golden Gala meet last Friday to eclipse her previous world record by two centimeters.
Maybe she will break the record again in [...]
Ronaldinho’s Got Balls
Ronaldinho will still go to Beijing even if this means breaking his contract with Barcelona. Hah. Good for him. Maybe the other footballers, like Argentine Martin Demichelis, who are similarly being prevented by their clubs from playing in Beijing should follow Ronaldinho’s example.
Let’s see what those Olympic party-pooping club owners will do when their stars [...]
Palestine Athletes in the Olympics
Here’s a video of Nader al Masri, the Palestinian athlete we first blogged about here, and another Palestinian athlete, Ghadeer Ghuruf, who is also going to Beijing.
Go, Palestine!
Related:Photo of the Day: Nader al Masri
