Archive for the 'Olympics' Tag
Sunday, August 12th, 2012
The TSN announcing team commented that it was sad that the Gallagher Brothers couldn’t put aside their differences for one song during “Wonderwall” but no mention was made of Dave Davies during “Waterloo Sunset”. Before the British Tabloids had the Gallagher Brothers to write about they had the Davies Brothers. Dave Davies arguably invented the [...]
Posted in Guitar, Music |
and Tagged: Closing Ceremonies, Dave Davies, Liam Gallagher, London 2012, Noel Gallagher, Oasis, Olympics, Ray Davies, The Kings |
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Sunday, August 5th, 2012
I was upstairs trying to find a job, but when I came down for lunch my mom was watching the Olympics, first it was 3m women’s springboard then women’s 75+ kg weightlifting came on. I’ve actually spent considerable time and effort updating an old post about a Korean winning this event in Beijing 2008 along [...]
Posted in China, Internet, 健美 |
and Tagged: athletes, body image, Chinese, femininity, Fitocracy, London 2012, Olympics, Russian, Tatiana Kashirina, TV, Weibo, weightlifting, Wu Minxian, Zhou Lulu |
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Saturday, December 11th, 2010
So if you went to bed at a reasonable time or don’t have cable, you may have missed the K1 Open Weight Grand Prix, held last night in Japan. If you haven’t guessed by the title, Alistair Overeem, AKA Ubereem, AKA the Reem, AKA the Demolition Man did what he said he would do, what [...]
Posted in MMA |
and Tagged: 2010, Alistair Overeem, Frank Mir, IOC, K1, Mirko CroCop, Olympics, Open Weight Grand Prix, Pride FC, Semmy Schilt, Shogun Rua, steroids, Strikeforce, testing, testosterone, UFC |
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
It seems I may have the post-Olympics flu, as I stayed home from work today. This is my final Olympic-related post, just to clear off the last few links and stories I seem to have kept handy in case I needed them. First David Eby got a pie in the face, this was amusing for [...]
Posted in DTES, NHL, Vancouver |
and Tagged: David Eby, hockey, Olympics, winter |
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Today I’m off and recovering. I shouldn’t have let Mathieson talk me into going downtown, right downtown after the Olympic Gold Medal Hockey Final. Other than some pictures I’m not sure what was gained. I did enjoy my Fritz, but it was hard staying together and in the end I just pushed on down Granville [...]
Posted in Beer, Canada, Vancouver |
and Tagged: Bronze Medal, cauldron, Finland, flame, hockey, Olympics, Slovakia, Vancouver 2010 |
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