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Germany’s Britta Steffen is 100m Freestyle Queen

bill — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:48:00 +0000

Britta Steffen’s playfulness in the swimming pool didn’t hurt her Olympic bid as she out-swam her opponents to bag the gold medal in the 100 meters freestyle. Britta’s victory brings up Germany’s gold medal haul to eight as of posting.

Photos courtesy of weltonline and stern.de

Britta Heidemann: Naked and Victorious

bill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:19:00 +0000

Pardon me if I keep putting up photos of naked Olympians and Olympic hotties. I do it because most of you are asking for it and also because Olympians themselves wouldn’t mind getting naked for the sake of “art”. Like Germany’s fencing gold medalist Britta Heidemann for instance:
Anyways, there’s really nothing wrong with nakedness, is there? Clothes were invented by sweat shop capitalists like Nike who are now making tons of money because they totally convinced us that nakedness is unacceptable. Damn these capitalists. And they’re exploiting the children of Southeast Asia too.

Anyways, congratulations to Britta for winning a gold medal in Beijing.

Photo credit: beijing 2008 [for the last photo]

Germany’s Benjamin Kliebrink Bags Gold, Bites Medal

bill — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 01:20:00 +0000

Emo-haired German fencer Benjamin Kliebrink won a gold medal for himself and for Germany and, following the good old tradition of Olympic medal-biting, promptly bit the medal. Kliebrink beat Japanese Ota Yuki for the gold, in case you are wondering.

Here’s Benjamim celebrating his victory. I must say that the photographer deserves a medal of his own for shooting a picture that resembles a baroque painting by Caravaggio.

Photo credit: Vladimir Rys via Beijing2008

Germany’s Alexander Grimm: Finally, an Olympic Gold Medal Biter

bill — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:03:00 +0000

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.

Photo source: shaun botterill/beijing2008

Meet Germany’s Beijing 2008 Olympic Team

bill — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:19:00 +0000

Germany is sending a total of 435 athletes to the Beijing Olympic Games. Here’s a partial list from dosb.de :

Cycling
Jooß, Anette
Arndt, Judith
Kupfernagel, Hanka
Worrack, Trixi
Grabsch, Bert
Schumacher, Stefan
Voigt, Jens
Wegmann, Fabian

Mountain biking
Morath, Adelheid
Fumic, Manuel
Kurschat, Wolfram
Milatz, Moritz

Weightlifting
Shaloyan, Artyom
Spiess, Jürgen

Canoeing
Ems, Jonas
Hollstein, Martin
Ihle, Andreas

Athletics
Möllinger, Anne
Peters, Mareike
Sailer, Verena
Tschirch, Cathleen
Wagner, Marion
Wakan, Katja
Ekpo-Umoh, Florence
Hoffmann, Claudia
Lindenberg, Janin
Nwachukwu, Sorina
Tilgner, Jonna
Schwarzkopf, Lili
Franka Dietzsch
Molitor, Katharina
Hingst, Carolin
Reiberger, Anastasia
Spiegelburg, Silke
Unger, Tobias
Broening, Marius
Helmke, Till
Keller, Martin
Kosenkow, Alexander
Ostwald, Ronny
Schlangen, Carsten
Faller, Ruwen
Gaba, Kamghe
Kirch, Simon
Seitz, Florian
Swillims, Bastian
Onnen, Eike
Spank, Raul-Roland
Steding, Stephan
Vieweg, Alexander
Esser, Markus
Ecker, Danny
Holzdeppe, Raphael
Lobinger, Tim
Bayer, Sebastian
Niklaus, Andre

Equestrian
Capellmann, Nadine
Kemmer, Heike
Werth, Isabell
Ahlmann, Christian
Beerbaum, Ludger
Kutscher, Marco
Michaels-Beerbaum, Meredith
Dibowski, Andreas
Klimke, Ingrid
Ostholt, Frank
Romeike, Hinrich
Thomsen, Peter

Rowing
Wech, Lenka
Derlien, Maren
Hennings, Christina
Reinert, Katrin
Wengert, Nina
Schmutzler, Nadine
Naumann, Kerstin
Schmude, Magdalena
Zimmermann, Nicole
Ruppel, Annina
Wenzel, Clemens
Brodowski, Karsten
Krüger, Stephan
Bertram, René
Gruhne, Hans
Schreiber, Christian
Koch, Jonathan
Brehmer, Manuel
Lehmann, Tom
Drahotta, Felix
Hauffe, Gregor
Seifert, Toni
Käufer, Urs
Adamski, Philipp
Seibt, Bastian
Schömann-Finck, Jost
Kühner, Jochen
Kühner, Martin
Eichner, Florian
Schmidt, Sebastian
Flach, Matthias
Naruhn, Philipp
Urban, Jochen
Mennigen, Florian
Wilke, Kristof
Penkner, Andreas
Thiede, Peter

Archery
Hitzler, Anja
Pieper, Jens Gerhard

Taekwondo
Fromm, Helena

Tennis
Kiefer, Nicolas
Kohlschreiber, Philipp

Table Tennis
Alternate Athletes
Solja, Amelie
Steger, Bastian

Beach Volleyball
Goller, Sara
Ludwig, Laura
Dieckmann, Christoph
Brink, Julius
Klemperer, David
Koreng, Eric

Swimming
Conrad, Lars

Gymnastics
Bijak, Daria Eva

Team events
Basketball [men's team]
Football [women's team]
Handball [men's and women's team]
Hockey [men's and women's team]
Volleyball [men's team]
Water polo [men's team]