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 [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2008’
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 [...]
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
Olympian to Watch: Michael Phelps
The question everybody is asking about Michael Phelps: Will he or won’t he break Mark Spitz’s record of seven Olympic gold medals? Maybe he will. But then maybe them Aussie Olympians, who are this year’s “model” of inter-team fighting, will get their acts together and spoil Michael Phelps’ party in Beijing? Related:Photos of the Day: [...]
Eric Shanteau: Cancer Stricken But Olympic Bound
Eric Shanteau is an American swimmer who qualified for the Beijing Olympics a week after he was diagnosed with cancer. Doctors advised him to have surgery now but this would disrupt his training so he decided to put off the surgery after the Olympics. But isn’t he risking his life by ignoring the doctor’s orders? [...]
