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Here’s a photo of Alex Fong Lik-Sun, the swimmer turned actor/singer we blogged about yesterday. Watch his music video here in case you missed it.

Is he angry at someone? Maybe he’s shouting at pro-Tibet demonstrators? Nah! Maybe he’s just over excited. After all, not everyone is given the honor to carry the torch like the former Olympians from Malaysia and India who were, unfortunately, snubbed by their sports officials.

Who says Olympic athletes can’t be successful singers? Certainly not Hong Kong swimmer now turned singer/actor Alex Fong Lik-Sun. Here’s a music video of Alex and another Hong Kong star, Natalie Tong.

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Do we really need a study to tell us that richer countries win more Olympic medals? My mom will tell you that such a study is a waste of resources because the answer will obviously be, “Of course richer countries win more Olympic medals.”

Now, the good folks at the Lingnan University in Hongkong obviously disagree with my mom (re: the usefulness of such study) so they set out to do an “econometric analysis of the Olympic Games“. They whipped out their calculators, pored over Olympic medal records, examined the different countries’ material wealth, did their statistical analysis thing, and came up with the following conclusion:
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