Category — Australia

Australia’s Matthew Mitcham just became China’s public enemy number one when he denied his hosts a clean sweep of the diving gold medals. If I am one of them Chinese authorities, I will start digging dirt on this guy to disqualify him so the gold medal will go to China.

In fact, I personally believe that this Matthew guy is is only eight years old and should therefore not be allowed to participate in the Olympics. Look at his facial hair for instance. It kinda looks fake, no? I think Australia, in its desperation to get a diving gold, pasted kangaroo hair on the face of this poor eight year old boy to make him look older. Boo Australia, you are sooo an age cheating country.

Photo credit: Jamie Squire via Beijing2008

Gold medal winner Stephanie Rice and Australia’s gold medal bet Eamon Sullivan are Australia’s version of Posh and David Beckham. But they reportedly split up before the Games began.

But did they really split up? Nah! They’re still together according to Rice’s grandpa. So maybe this splitting up thing is just a gimmick then?

Anyways, we hope Eamon wins himself his gold medal so they’ll be even if they are indeed still a couple.

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Congratulations, you earring-wearing swimmer. That was teh awesome. It seems that, as predicted, the girl swimmers of Australia will do better than the boy swimmers. The evidence so far: Stephanie Rice = teh awesome; Grant Hackett = a dud dude in the 400 meters. But to be fair to Grant, his event really is the 1,500 meters where he is the defending champion.

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Photo source: beijing2008

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 while playing for Perth, she damaged the same knee again.

“Back then, I never thought I would play basketball again,” Cox said.

“I lost my passion for the game and took much needed time out.”

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Argh! This is bad news to the fans of Australian hurdler Jana Rawlinson and to those of us who are certified members of the Dara Mama Fans Club.

Jana, according to reports, will not be participating in the Beijing Olympics because of a toe injury. Bad, bad, bad toe. Why did it “decide” to get injured at this time. Jana is currently the world record holder in the 400 meter hurdles so she really has a good chance of bagging the gold medal in Beijing.

Anyways, we here at The Olympics Blog hope that Jana Mama — she’s mom to one year old Cornelis Levi — will emulate Dara Torres and that she will continue to pursue her Olympic dreams despite this recent setback.

By the way, the Dara Mama Fans Club — named after Dara Torres — are composed of those of us cheering for mom Olympians who are proving that neither motherhood nor old age is a hindrance to Olympic success. Go, Dara Mamas.

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