Alicia Sacramone did far better in this video and she looks a lot better.

As long as Switzerland beats Canada in gold or other medals......I am happy

I expect Calderone is going to get booed pretty bad when he returns to play for the Raptors.... What a loser.

It seems to me Spain has a strong racist subculture of sports fans. The above incident and what happend last year in F1 with Spanish fans dressed in "blackface" to mock Lewis Hamilton.

Does anyone know when Dara Torres is up?

So I've heard....it is just very inappropriate during the Olympics..

Just the Olympics?

The funniest Olympic video I've ever seen: http://dirtgetswet.com/videos/336/world ... ming-trial

Well in an ideal world, no...but at least people can be fake and smile during the Olympics..

No way some of them were 16, i swear there must be some 10-11 year olds in there.

I think 3 of em were probably 13 or 14, but none were as young as 10 or 11.

They look younger than my little sister... who's not even 15.

nothing is going to happen.
the US needs proof those girls are under 16.
they can bitch and whine all they want. without proof nothing will be done about it.

I think the picture thing was more stupid than racist. It was taken by a marketing company to associate the team with the oriental culture around the games. Sort of like if the Olympics were in Mexico and they took some marketing pictures of a team dressed in sombreros and eating tacos. This is worse because it's a direct racial thing, but I don't think the intent was THAT bad. It was a dumb mistake, but I think it's been blown out of proportion a bit.



The 5 people booing will be drowned out by the 20,000 who don't care or have forgotten about this story by then.

I dont think anything should be done about it either.

Canada's chance at an actual medal tonight (yes, an actual medal) was ruined because Mike Brown sucks and got in 4th (after a terrific semi-final performance). Lovely!

Peace,
Mike

We're getting closer though! Hooray progress!

Haha, yes. I gotta love the CBC coverage of our athletes.

"So and so came in a phenomenal 12th place! Way to go team Canada!"

"He didn't quite reach medal status, but he had a really strong race!"

"She made the finals! We don't expect a medal, but she made the finals! Hooray!"

Heh.

Peace,
Mike

I think canada is jinxed. they had 2 good chances of medal in last 2 days and lost both.

Box jinxed them for sure.

Although Canada has always been, relatively speaking, strong in rowing, and I was watching some great early performances in the rowing competitions by the Canadians. I expect a medal to come from there, somewhere, in the finals! Hehe.

Peace,
Mike

We're all winners!

Maybe if Toronto can get the games in...2028 or 2032... We'll build some programs for summer athletes similar to the Own the Podium program for Vancouver 2010 and win a medal or two in the first week of competition.

OMG! 2 Chinese girls just destroyed teh 200m butterfly world record and took Gold & Silver.

that French guy that said his relay team was going to smash the Americans just won gold in the 100m freestyle. the American that beat him in the relay this time tied for bronze medal.

Yeah had a feeling he'd win

it was real close though. he barely won. Sullivan of Australia was leading going into the turn but
for some reason he lost it coming out of the turn.