Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged zhang nan on July 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In the continuation of this series, readers’ suggestions last time were:
Brooke Walker (AUS)
Lisa Mason (GBR) when she was a blonde
Kui Yuanyuan (CHN)
Brandy Johnson (USA)
Marta Pihan (POL)
And for me, I only got one for you guys today:
Zhang Nan (CHN): After growing her hair long and maturing in the face, she became very hot.
As usual if I’ve [...]
Posted in Olympics, Pictures and Montages, tagged alicia sacramone, cheng fei, oksana chusovitina on July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This is the medal podium I would most love to see:
For the vault event final.
In the lull between Trials and Beijing, I have renovated my eponymous WordPress blog, so if you are sick of hearing the media blather about how He Kexin is underage and Paul Hamm is not competing in the Olympics, come take [...]
Posted in Articles, Drama and Gossip, Olympics, tagged he kexin on July 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…is today. Yay. *clap clap clap*
Recently, the New York Times and USA Today and so forth talked about He Kexin’s potential underage-ness. Very interesting reads.
I will not comment further on that because:
it’s already been done to death;
the Times should know better than to quote that buffoon Bela Karolyi, the King of Shady Dealings in Gymnastics;
and [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged lyudmila yezhova on July 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
China’s nominative roster of Cheng Fei, Yang Yilin, Jiang Yuyuan, Li Shanshan, Deng Linlin, and He Kexin will indeed be the Chinese team. I have strong opinions on the selection, but I’ll keep them to myself for the time being.
Russia left Yezhova Grebenkova out of the final lineup, which makes me angry. Please note that I have [...]
Posted in Olympics on July 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Click here to watch Gymnast.com’s video of the USA Olympic team announcement. Unlike NBC’s coverage, they didn’t leave out Bridget, and they even had a little spot with poor Shayla.
Thanks, Steve McCain and the Gymnast.com people.
Steve Penny was so totally unprepared, the way he stumbled over the words. How hard is it, sir, to say [...]
Posted in Gymnasts, Olympics, tagged samantha peszek on July 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
To get my mind off Moceanu, I read this article about Sam P.
“I was only 15 when I got to go (to worlds), and we won as a team, so that was a great experience for me,” Peszek said. “I got to see what that level is all about and what it takes to compete [...]
Posted in Articles, Drama and Gossip, tagged dominique moceanu on July 23, 2008 | 13 Comments »
You may have heard by now that 1996 Olympian Dominique Moceanu was on a HBO show to vent about the Karolyis and their system. The usual: abusive, painful, etc., etc.
Here’s Part 1:
Now I have some sympathy for Jennifer Sey–although gymnastics devotees accuse her of being a nutcase (and she may very well be), she [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged corrie lothrop, ivana hong, jana bieger on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From an article in the New York Times:
USA Gymnastics officials said that the alternates – Jana Bieger, Ivana Hong and Corrie Lothrop – for the gold-medal favorite U.S. women were supposed to train in the city of Tianjin, about an hour away from Beijing. Those plans changed recently, though, because the athletes were denied tourist [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged bridget sloan, chellsie memmel, cheng fei, daria joura, jiang yuyuan on July 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some fluffy shorts in a series called “Olympians in Pursuit of Perfection”, produced after the Beijing Test Event, and sponsored by the Li Ning athletic clothing company.
(I first saw a Li Ning clothing store in Suzhou during my third trip to China; I thought that the symbol was an upside-down ripoff of the [...]
Posted in Olympics, tagged shawn johnson on July 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
You don’t really need to know what the Chinese reporter is saying because she’s just introducing Shawn, and Shawn talks in English anyway.
Word on the street is that the leotard that Shawn is wearing in the report (00:11) is one of the Olympic team leotards for the USA. I desperately hope [...]
