Men's Track 200M

I don't know if you guys saw the 200M last night. The American in third place was such a poor sport. He stepped on the line like 3 times and that's an automatic DQ. He was being interviewed after he had already taken a victory lap and found out seconds before that he was DQ'd. Even though it was obvious that he had DQ'd he was adamant he was going to challenge the ruling.  At least he didn't blame his DQ on another country.

NBC was looking at the footage and saw that the second place guy from Netherlands Antilles also stepped on the line multiple times. So apparently the U.S. told them to check the tape. Both of them were DQ'd. So the 4th place American moved up to second.

The Netherlands Antilles guy took it out on the US instead of just realizing that he did indeed DQ and it was his fault:

The sports minister for the Netherlands Antilles, Omayra Leeflang, was furious about Martina's disqualification and blamed the United States team.

"It goes against the whole spirit of the Olympics," Leeflang said. "The spirit of the Olympics is to come together in the spirit of fair play. A small country like ours, we did not come here as victims. I think it's a pity for a big country like the United States to make such a small statement."

So even though it was completely Martina's fault he wants to place the blame on the U.S. Poor sportsmanship all the way, take it like a man.

The International Table Tennis Association is disappointed with their un-sexy image and have decided to do something about that. Namely, they've decided to effn' sexy it the eff up.

 "We are trying to push the players to use skirts and also nicer shirts, not the shirts that are made for men, but ones with more curves," International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) vice president Claude Bergeret said.

And by "skirts and nicer shirts", Claude "Pant Full of Bone" Bergeret of course means "g-strings, booty shorts and effin' sexy tops that are more prone to showing cleavage and nipples".

It's gonna be all about the table tennis T&A come 2012, fools. Synchronized swim better ask somebody! Beach volleyball better just show up naked.

You know who's already figured it out? Naomi Yotsumoto, that's who:

via www.wallcoo.net

And of course, there's always the ever popular Biba:

via sports.popcrunch.com

Sexy Brazilian twins everywhere (in Brazil) are getting their paddles and rubbers ready. Get your mind out of the gutter. Those are table tennis terms.

I just don't think Mark Spitz is getting the respect he deserves.  I've heard a lot of media saying things like "step aside Spitz".  Plus nobody even invited him to the Bejing Olympics.

I'm a big fan of Michael Phelps and what he did is absolutely amazing. He's getting the appropriate amount of media hype, so let me just say a few things about Spitz.

• Spitz won 7 gold medals and broke 7 world records in the 1972 Olympics.
• He didn't have a Speedo LZR suit, he didn't even wear a swim cap.
• Phelps had a bad race because his goggles filled with water.  Spitz didn't even wear goggles
• Swimmers are known to shave off all body hair.  Spitz was planning on shaving his moustache when he got to Munich but he was getting so much attention from the media (and the ladies) that he kept it as a good luck charm. 
• Spitz retired at age 22. Phelps is 23 right now.  Think of the swimming Spitz could have done well into his 20's.
• Spitz came out of retirement at the age of 41 and went to the Olympic Trials in 1992.  He missed the cut by 2 seconds.  Sure that can be a lot in swimming but he was 41 and hadn't swam competitively in 20 years.

Spitz deserves much respect.

CBS has announced the teams on the next Amazing Race.

I think I'm rooting for Terence and Sarah, but that could all change once I see the first episode. 

Here's my idea for the Amazing Race.  They have too many of the old cliches now after 13 seasons.  The Father/Daugher, Couple that won't commit, old people, etc.

I think they should grab people off the street.  We are taking you and your dry cleaner!  Go! 

Or a student and their teacher that they don't necessarily like. 

Or they grab somebody that would be good for the show and then the next person who walks through this door.

I think it'd be fun to see how people who only know each other in a certain environment would get along on the Amazing Race.

Oh here's a good one, what about a hot chick and some wormy dude that has a crush on her and she doesn't even know who he is.  Something like that.

These ideas are genius!  Why am I not a television producer?  CBS should call me.

• Fencing/Saber:  In fencing now they have helmets that light up when you make a touch on your opponent.  This is great for spectators since you can't see the foil touching on TV or in person.  The only problem with this is that they often both light up and a judge has to make a decision of who touched first.  Why not have it so the first touch gets the light and then the other guys helmet doesn't light up at all?  That way there doesn't have to be a judges decision.  It's really funny seeing the fencers clenching their fist and celebrating, trying to sell their touch to the judge.  They both put on this big production and then one of them is like "ah man.  Are you serious?"  There is a lot of acting in fencing.
• Women's Volleyball:  This is so much more fun to watch than beach volleyball.  I love watching the fake spikes, the two or three women blocks, the diving and sliding.  It's great.  I watched USA/Poland.  Don't get me wrong I still fast forwarded through most of it but I ended up fast forwarding through all of beach volleyball.
• Track events:  Track runners piss me off.  Why can't they sprint through the finish line?  They think they are so cool pulling up and jogging into the finish.  You're at the olympics!  You're setting a world record, do your best!  Usaine Bolt did it and some American hurdlers did it yesterday.  An American woman pulled up in the 100 meter dash yesterday and just about got beat because she stopped too early.  It would have served her right. 

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Watching Women's Kayak right now. Thoughts:

• That stadium they're in looks soooo fun. The Disney people should buy that place and build a giant water ride out of that thing.
• At various points in the competition, kayak looks either super relaxing or really amazingly difficult.
• How often do you think Olympic Kayakers pee their pants while kayaking? Watching all that water rush by, I don't think I could hold it in.

The U.S. Women swept fencing, which is impressive, but I get worried because Korean women are better archers. Bringing a saber to a bow fight only works once you can get in close. This video isn't of the Olympic team, but it's a pretty good representation of what we witnessed a few days ago.

via i.dailymail.co.uk

Pictured: The horrific moment Olympic weightlifter turns his elbow back to front

This is the moment Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's first Olympics ended in agony when he dislocated his right elbow in the ugliest moment yet of the Olympic weightlifting competition.

Baranyai was trying to snatch 148kg in his third lift in the men's 77kg division, when his elbow popped out of its socket.

Click the link for pictures of a guy with his elbow facing forward.  When I look at the pictures I get really weak and it feels like somebody is tickling me.

If I were NBC, I would've allowed for a ton of raw feed online to be gathered by whoever wanted it and embedded on your individual sites. Then, in order for a person to use an embedded clip, I would've had them pick a 15-30 second commercial to precede the clip.

That way, a blogger (like myself) would have a way of embedding a clip onto his or her site and I would've picked out an advertisement that I figured my readers would find interesting. Sponsors and advertisers could get the data from NBC for a price to figure out what sorts of sites expressed interest in their products. NBC would be able to tell if there was a sport that they should have provided better television coverage to and make up for it later in the games. Everybody would be happy.

Instead... We get what we get.

Notes:

• Watching men's indoor volleyball. I full admit I don't watch much indoor volleyball, so maybe the answer is obvious, but why is the shortest guy on each team wearing a different color? Isn't that height discrimination to point out the shorty?
• Women's badminton - Yulianti vs Schenk. The announcer talked about Yulianti's lack of emotion during the match and was notably excited when she pumped her first. However instead of calling it a "fist pump", he called said, "there's the pump fist". I found that humorous.
  
•  Women's Soccer - Diane Matheson looks very short out there. I thought that she must be like 4'10". Looking at her bio, I find that she's actually 5 foot even, but then I remembered that sports heroes always lie about their heights on their bio.
• Women's Volleyball - I have to find a photo somewhere, but one of the women's volleyball judges looks like Chuck the cocaine guy from Boogie Nights.