How Much Money Do Olympians Make? | London 2012

Jon Stewart tackles the controversies surrounding the Beijing Olympics: the lipsynching during the opening ceremonies, the slit-eyed Spanish basketball team, and the reportedly underaged Chinese gymnasts.

I’m sure we all agree that Jon is a genius. We should give him a gold medal already.

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Ahh, the art of rifle kissing as demonstrated to us by Ukraine’s Artur Ayvazian. I’m not sure if it is this kissing thing which helped him win the gold medal (in the 50 meter rifle prone) or whether he kissed his rifle after he won his gold medal. Anyways, Artur outgunned Matthew Emmons of the United States and Warren Potent of Australia who won the silver and bronze medals respectively.

Artur’s gold is the second for Ukraine. The women’s fencing team of Olha Zhovnir, Olga Kharlan, Halyna Pundyk and Olena Khomrova won the first one.

Photo source: xinhua via beijing2008

Nastia Liukin increases the U.S. gold medal total to 14 when she won in the women’s all-around artistic gymnastics. All is quiet in the Chinese front so far. As of posting, the gold medal race between China and the U.S. stands thus: China = 22 golds vs. U.S. = 14 golds.

Photo source: nbc

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

Merman Michael Phelps got himself another gold medal [12th overall] which brings the U.S. total gold to 13. This is probably the most productive day for the U.S. in the swimming pool. No response yet from China as of this posting.

By the way, that’s Ryan Lochte (gold medalist in the 200 meter backstroke and bronze medalist in the 200 meter individual medley) with Michael in the AP file photo above. Nice head touching, no? But don’t you dare do that when you are in Thailand, Mr. Phelps. Head touching is a no, no there even if you are the “greatest Olympian evah”.

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Photo source: AP via ESPN