In ten days, the Beijing Paralympic Games will begin. I hope to blog about it of course and I hope that no unscheduled projects will come my way so that — unlike the Olympics that just passed — I can do the blogging regularly. Who’s the athlete to watch in the Paralympic Games? I’m not [...]
Posts on ‘August 27th, 2008’
Irving Saladino’s Golden Jump
Here’s another one I should have blogged about last week but didn’t because of a tight schedule: Panama’s Irving Saladino who lived up to the hype by outjumping the competition in the men’s long jump. Congratulations, Irving. Update: Here’s a video of Irving’s golden jump. And here’s a picture, courtesy of estrelladepanama, of the Olympic [...]
Oussama Mellouli: Tunisia’s Olympic Hero
I got busy doing some other stuff so I wasn’t able to update this blog during the Olympics but this doesn’t mean that I will stop blogging about our Olympic champions Our fist post-Olympic post would be about Oussama Mellouli, winner of the 1,500 meter race in swimming, who went home to Tunisia and was [...]
