Vancouver 2010| London 2012| Olympic Athletes | Hotties | Latest Olympic Updates |
August 16th, 2008 — Russia
Valeriy Borchin of Russia out-walked Jefferson Perez of Ecuador to win the gold medal in 20-kilometer speed walking, an event which may be described as the orphan son of running and walking.
Valeryiy’s gold is the fourth for Russia, a sleeping giant which has yet to flex its muscles in Beijing. To their credit, Russia’s wrestlers are fully awake as they won the first three gold medals for good old Mother Russia.
July 7th, 2008 — Russia
Are you thinking, “Who’s that girl?” This girl, my friend, is Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva. She won the gold medal during the 2004 Athens Olympics and she plans to continue competing until 2013 when Russia hosts the World Athletic Championships. This means that you will be seeing more of her in the future and in this blog.
Yelena won the Laureaus Award for Sportsmanship in 2007 and, in the words of wikipedia, “makes fun of the fact that female pole vaulters are seen as sex symbols for male couch potatoes”. Hehe. Male couch potatoes, you can learn more about our Olympic hottie by visiting her website.
More hotties:
Hottie Pellegrini Wins Fourth Gold Medal for Italy
Olympic Hottie of the Day: Leryn Franco
Olympic Hotties: Amanda Beard Naked
Olympic Hottie of the Day: Goldie Sayers
Olympic Hottie of the Day: Juliana Felisberta Silva
Olympic Hottie: Yelena Isinbayeva
Olympic Hottie: Maria Sharapova
May 22nd, 2008 — Athletics, Drugs, Russia
Arrghh. Here’s another athlete we are including in our doper’s Hall of Shame: Russia’s Tatyana Lysenko, the world record holder for the hammer throw.
She failed a drug test according to the IAAF and has been banned for two years. She will miss the Beijing Olympics and her results from the past two years have been wiped off the record books.
May 19th, 2008 — 800 Meter Run, Athletics, Russia
Earlier, we brought you how Australia’s Brenton Rickard trains for the Olympics. Now, let’s have Olympic 800m champion Yuriy Borzakovskiy tell us something about his training:
I train twice a day, six days per week. With this I need 8 to 9 hours of sleep each night and one-and-a-half hours of sleep in the afternoon. On Wednesday or Thursday I usually have one practice, and instead of the second one I go to a banya, and on Sunday I have banya too.
May 12th, 2008 — Race Walking, Russia
Athens 2004 silver medalist Denis Nizhegorodov (left) set a new world record in the 50 km walk by clocking three hours, 34 minutes and 14 seconds at the World Race Walking Cup on Sunday, 11 May, according to a Reuters report.
The 27-year-old Russian bettered the time of 3:35.47 set by Australian Nathan Deakes on Dec. 2, 2006 in Geelong, Australia.
May 3rd, 2008 — Russia, Tennis
Haha. We like it when our favorite athletes get surly like our favorite cantankerous aunt.
Sharapova, the most popular tennis star (yeah she’s more popular than Roger Federer), is criticizing the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for forcing her to do a four hour commercial shoot a day before a tennis tournament. She’s also asking her fans to vote on what she should do.
Here’s the statement published in her website:
Continue reading →
May 1st, 2008 — Russia
Like the Olympic predictions we’ve been featuring here, we will soon find out in August whether Boris Gryzlov is correct or not.
Xinhua: Russian athletes may win 30 to 40 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games, Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the State Duma, lower house of the parliament, said on Wednesday.
April 23rd, 2008 — Russia, Scandals and Controversies, Winter Games
Whoo. This is juicy news. But disturbing too. Who would think of drugging Olympic gold medalist Pasha Gishuk with GHB, “a predatory drug that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce resistance from a victim before a sexual assault?” Could it be the butler? The waiter? The candlestick maker? Whoever s/he was, we hope that the police is running after his or her ass.
Associated Press: Former Olympic ice dancer Pasha Grishuk was drugged with GHB, a common date rape drug, during a business meeting at a ritzy Orange County hotel, a sheriff’s spokesman said Tuesday.
April 19th, 2008 — Athens Olympic Games, Gymnastics, Russia
Ahh, our first Olympic-related love story. We don’t blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for shopping in the young girls section, but Alina Kabaeva what are you thinking?
According to reports (a.k.a. rumors), which the Russian President pooh-poohed, the two are planning to tie the knot sometime in June after the lovestruck Vlad (he looks smitten in this photo, di ba?) steps down from office.
April 17th, 2008 — China, Italy, Russia, United States
Who will emerge as the overall champion in the Beijing Olympics? According to Luciano Barra, the United States will retain its title while China will land in second place.
His projection, issued last December 2007, is as follows:
Continue reading →
