Well, they receive more “reward” money than their American counterparts who get US$25,000 for a gold medal. But they don’t do as well as Thai gold medalists who are given US$314,000. From the China Daily: China’s gold medal winners at the Beijing Olympics will be taking home cash along with their medals, state media reported [...]
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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 [...]
Andreas Thorkildsen: The Best Gold Medal Biter
Norwegian Andreas Thorkildsen who won the gold medal in the javelin throw is probably the best medal biter I’ve seen in the Beijing Games. Seriously, have you seen a better practitioner of the art of Olympic medal biting than Andreas?Congratulations to you Andreas. May you have another gold medal to bite in London 2012. Photo [...]
Angel Matos: The UnOlympian
Ban this guy. There’s no excuse for this kind of stupid and unsportsmanlike behavior. From Newsweek: Cuba’s Angel Matos deliberately kicked a referee square in the face after he was disqualified in a bronze-medal match, prompting the World Taekwondo Federation to recommend he be banned for life. “We didn’t expect anything like what you have [...]
