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August 13th, 2008 — Basketball, Spain
What do you think of this? And what were these guys thinking? If they were looking for a way to make the otherwise friendly Chinese fans unfriendly, then they sure found a pretty good way to do it.
For context, this is an pre-Olympic Games advertisement for a courier company. Whoever conceptualized this ad deserves to be fired for any of the following reasons: a) racism, b) outright stupidity, and c) cultural insensitivity and cluelessness.
August 13th, 2008 — China, Diving
Hah. Didn’t I tell you earlier that the art of medal biting lives on in the Olympics? Here’s the China’s synchronized divers Kai Qin and Wang Feng. Kai is biting his gold to test if it is authentic.
Seems like the Chinese divers are really going to win all the golds in diving, no?
August 13th, 2008 — Germany, Kayaking
I’m sure Germany’s Alexander Grimm, gold medalist in the Olympic Kayak K1, isn’t the first one to bite his gold medal in Beijing but this is the first photo I saw of a medal biter. It’s good to know that the good old tradition of Olympic medal biting is alive and well and won’t go the way of the dodo.
But why do athletes bite their medals? Apparently to test their authenticity. The good guys at Slate Magazine will tell you however that the Olympic gold medals aren’t really made of gold but are made of gold-plated silver.
August 13th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Expect NBC and other U.S. media outlets to downplay the fact that the U.S. is lagging behind China in the gold medal race by focusing on the total number of medals.
Here’s what it looks like at the NBC website:
August 13th, 2008 — Italy, Swimming
Ahh, Federica Pellegrini. You are geeky-looking sometimes but you are an Olympic hottie too. Congratulations on winning your first Olympic gold medal and the fourth gold medal for Italy.
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