Category — Athens Olympic Games

A video of Tonique Williams-Darling’s gold medal winning run in the 400-meter event. Tonique represented the Bahamas during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Tonique took 2007 off because of injuries but is looking forward to the Beijing Olympics.

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.

It’s not clear whether the President divorced his wife (some reports say he did, others say he did not) and the President criticized those who are speculating about his love life. We guess we are included in his target, although we deny having a snotty nose, when he said this:

“I have always had a negative opinion of those who, with their snotty noses and their erotic fantasies, meddle in other people’s lives.”

Aww, come on Vlad. For a former KGB official who spied on peoples lives, you shouldn’t be too sensitive about us “meddlers”; at least we are not putting recording devices in your bedroom. And what’s that bit about erotic fantasies? We think all people are guilty of having some but we don’t think they fantasize about you. [In fairness to Vlad, maybe that erotic fantasies bit is just a bad translation from Russian.]

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