Preview: Olympic Men's Triathlon

I had the opportunity to get Barrie Shepley's thoughts on the men's triathlon shortly before he left for Beijing. For those of you not familiar with Barrie, he has been instrumental in developing Triathlon in...

Michael Phelps Has One Million Facebook Fans

Michael Phelps iz popular on teh internets. Second only to Obama on Facebook? That's quite the meme-like social media accomplishment. Who cares about gold medals when you're the longest running "trending topic"...

McDonald’s cops to their role in raising are children

  It’s funny how a couple of hours can changes one’s perspective. On Friday night as I headed off to work, the Canadian medal count was still, zero and the prospects of presenting an article of this tone...

Kenya's Pamela Jelimo One of the Most Sensational Runners of the Beijing Olym...

Pamela Jelimo has set the Olympic World alight with her sensational running.  A runner's runner: she is the name on every ecstatic commentators' lips.  She is a vetaran of the 200 metres and only took...

Is there no Sports Culture in India ?

India has finally broken the jinx and won  an Olympic gold medal in an individual event for the first time ever. The winner,Abhinav Bindra has ignited the hope and aspiration of the whole nation.India is...

Roulston creates NZ cycling history

  Ashburton's Hayden Roulston rode into New Zealand cycling immortality at the Laoshan Velodrome when he became the the first Kiwi to win two track cycling medals at one Olympics. " Roulston added a bronze with the team pursuit late Monday night to the individual...

Elena Dementieva takes women singles tennis gold

Russian tennis players don’t only look good, they can also win big. Elena Dementieva’s gold, Dinara Safina’s silver and Vera Zvonareva’s bronze Olympic medals in tennis women singles are a testament to...

Beijing Subway Line 10: Finally With Mobile Signals

"It looks like the impasse between the Beijing Subway and the Chinese mobile telcos have finally given way. “In the name of the Olympics”, we are made to believe by the Subway company, mobile telephony...

BOLT By Name and BOLT by Nature "Didn't Even Try": Comparisons to Ben Johnson...

Jamaica's Usain Bolt's astonishing 9.69 second world record, in the Olympics "King of Sports", the Men's 100 metres, which smashed the record set by...Usain Bolt, was not even an effort for the new world sprint...

China reacts to Liu Xiang's dramatic pullout

China is in shock after superstar Liu Xiang's sudden withdrawal from the 110 meter hurdle event. Thousands of people are reacting on local social networking sites. NowPublic member fansiding advocates tolerance...

As a Chinese,what do i think about Liu Xiang's withdrawal

"What happen?Is Liu really withdrawl?"Maybe,as everyone heard the news of Liu's unbelievable decision,such questions would be out. Frankly speaking,I still think that Liu just postpone his competition,we will see...

Nadal takes gold and Federer's top ranking

Rafael Nadal on Sunday beat Fernando Gonzalez in straigh sets to claim Olympic gold. In the process, he displaced Roger Federer as the world numer one ranked player. "With Rafael Nadal set to become the...

Chinese Say Everyone Knew Olympic Gymnasts Were Under Sixteen

"We always knew they were under sixteen years old," a group of Chinese students told me yesterday. "We had no idea that there was an age limit for gymnastics in the Olympics. If there really is, then China did...

NBC's Olympic Size Conspiricy

Under development -Is it Live or Memorex ?I have been a complete couch potato this whole Olympic games. Staying up into the wee hours of the morning watching records being smashed left and right, always believing...

Bindra Wins India's First Ever Solo Gold Medal

A delighted Abhinav Bindra won India's first ever solo gold medal in what is considered to have been one of the most thrilling shooting finals in Olympic history  China took Silver and Henri Hakkinen of...

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