Methinks those silly South Korean school girls should now end their obsession with Rain and focus their attention to judoka Choi Minho who won the first gold medal for South Korea. He’s got everything that matters: good looks and an Olympic gold medal. Does Rain have a gold medal? None. Nada. Zero. And here’s another [...]
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Alina Alexandra Dumitru Scores One Gold For Romania
Romania’s judoka Alina Alexandra Dumitru should write a book entitled “How to Win an Olympic Gold Medal in 80 Seconds“. I think it will be a best seller. Felicitări, Alina, you made Romania very proud indeed. Romania related:Nicolae Linca, Gold Medalist, 79 Photo credit: chinadaily.com
The Flag Bearers: Nigeria’s Vivian Yusuf
Finally. After previously posting about ten male Olympic flag bearers, it’s good to come across a woman flag bearer: judoka Vivian Yusuf of Nigeria. Yusuf is a silver medalist during the recently concluded African Judo Championships in Morocco and is the only judoka from Africa who is going to Beijing. Nigeria-related posts:Show Us the MoneyMeet [...]
The Flag Bearers: Ilias Iliadis of Greece
What earned judoka Ilias Iliadis the right to be his country’s Olympic flag bearer? He bagged a gold medal during the Athens 2004 Games and could very well bag another one in Beijing. Since Greece is traditionally the first country to enter the Olympic stadium, Ilias will be the very first athlete to appear at [...]
Missing in Action: Cuba’s Yurisel Laborde
Did she defect to the United States? Or did something bad happen to her that we still don’t know about? Yurisel Laborde is a Cuban judoka who won a bronze medal during the 2004 Olympics in Athens. She also boasts of two Judo World Championships gold medals which she bagged in 2005 and 2007. After [...]
