Its hard to buy Phelps’ sincerity when he looks borderline stoned in this video: continue reading...
From Fox Sports:
OSLO, Norway (AP) - A physicist has done the math, and says Usain Bolt could have run the 100-meter Olympic final in 9.55 seconds if he had not slowed down to showboat.
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Team Canada says no, but everyone else is crying foul. Sure the girls look young, but so do all gymnasts? Read more from the National Post:
BEIJING — They look like they are anywhere between 8 and 11 years old, but five of the six girls on the Chinese gymnastics team hold passports that say they are 16 — the minimum age to be competing in the Olympic gymnastics competition. continue reading...
As athletes from all over the world arrive in Beijing ahead of the start of the Olympics some members of the U.S. cycling team arrive wearing anti-pollution masks. continue reading...
It will be interesting to see if the Los Angeles Lakers make a case to prevent Kobe Bryant from competing in the Olympic Games, what with his injured pinkie:
“I would prefer to delay any surgical procedure until after our Lakers season, and this summer’s Olympic Games. But this is an injury that myself and the Lakers medical staff will just have to continue to monitor on a day-to-day basis.” continue reading...