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Showing posts with label Olympics 2008. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics 2008. Show all posts
Thursday, 21 August 2008

The sports industry is full of Oliver Twists

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I let my digits loose on Google late yesterday afternoon to find out why "athletes need more funding". Suddenly the computer scre...
Monday, 18 August 2008

The Olympic elephant in the room wins doubt, doubt, doubt!

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Great performance [by Michael Phelps] but if there is any doubt carry out every test on the super star and free him on any doubt. The 100th ...
Sunday, 17 August 2008

Taking the p*ss out of the IOC, Beijing's running man and that 'sacred' flame

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Just when you think that the world has decided that everything worthwhile comes from elite sports, an Aussie comes along to tilt at the tall...
Wednesday, 13 August 2008

The IOC sold the world an Olympic lemon

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The 2008 Olympics can never be called the 'best ever' for any of its events or features. Beijing smog so thick that you often can...
Sunday, 10 August 2008

Some Beijing Olympic titbits

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From Bob Dumpling over at New Matilda* on Friday : I love the Olympics. No one is more excited than me (except maybe Ian Thorpe and his...
Friday, 8 August 2008

$$ Beijing Olympics 2008 begin today $$

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Poster from Google Images Let us all get our priorities right Save the planet Not the I nternational O lympic C ommittee
Thursday, 24 April 2008

2008 Olympic Torch Relay - Australia

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Thursday, 10 April 2008

Imagine there's no relay, it's easy if you try

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Could it possibly be that the over-hyped, obscenely expensive, politics riddled and ultra-greenhouse gas emitting Olympic Games has lost i...
Friday, 28 March 2008

A little Mandarin goes a long way

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Photograph from Indymedia ABC News reported this late last night. A senior Australian diplomat will be allowed to visit Tibet tomorrow, as a...
Thursday, 27 March 2008

The 2008 Olympiad as a graphic

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Telling graphic from Club Troppo's Missing Link .