Are tattoos cool? Of course they are. Why would these Olympians scar themselves with tattoos if they are not cool. If you are wondering who these tattoos belong to, here’s some of them (from top, left to right): archer Natalia Valeeva of Italy, Brazilian diver Cesar Castro, an unidentified swimmer, Cesar Castro [again], British cyclist [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2008’
Naked Olympians: The U.S. Gymnastics Team
Just because this U.S. artistic gymnastics team “only” won the bronze medal doesn’t mean they can’t show off their muscles, abs, and armpits. So now the nakedness score between the dueling male and female Olympians: males = 2 vs. females = 2. The naked females would be Rebecca Romero and Britta Heidemann while the males [...]
Tomasz Majewski Bags the First Gold Medal for Poland
Shot put may not be popular in Poland [is it popular anywhere?] but this didn’t stop Tomasz Majewski from becoming a shot putter. It paid off big time when he won the gold medal in Beijing. Time for our Polish friends to perhaps pay more attention to the sport but Tomasz isn’t optimistic. The silver [...]
Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene Bags Ethiopia’s First Gold Medal
Aha, Tirunesh Dibaba Kenene of Ethiopia, is a flag draper (a variation of the Olympic “art” of flag waving). She set a new Olympic record in the women’s 10,000 meter run and bagged herself a gold medal. Congratulations to you, Tirunesh. Expect more gold medals for Ethiopia in distance running because they tend to dominate [...]
Yu Yang and Du Jing: China’s Gold Medalists #26
China’s answer to the U.S. victories in the Olympic swimming pool on Day 7 came from weightlifting, judo, and the badminton duo of Yu Yang and Du Jing who beat South Korea’s Lee Hyo-jung and Lee Kyung-won to pocket the gold, China’s 26th overall, in women’s badminton doubles. So what’s the gold medal race like [...]
