Year: 2012
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Positive drug tests at the Summer Olympics, 1968 – 2012
The Economist has this interesting chart over positive drug tests at the Summer Games up until August 1st 2012, and adds in the article from August 2nd that until then, “two athletes, an Albanian weightlifter and an Uzbek gymnast, have so far been ejected from the London Olympics for failing drugs tests.” Makes you think,…
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The London 2012 women’s 10K Marathon Swim is tomorrow
Thursday August 9th, and Open Water Source has this great website ready for us, complete with real-time commentary on Twitter and stuff. Go Paine!
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Michael Jamieson looks back on his Olympic silver
Olympic silver medallist swimmer Michael Jamieson is convinced he has what it takes to become a record breaker.The Scot claimed a shock second place in the 200m breaststroke in London, only missing out on gold thanks to a world-record swim by Hungarian Daniel Gyurta. Read the Daily Record
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“Ryan Lochte is Terrible At Interviews” goes viral
Doub, I threw this video in the garbage bin back then because it was, well, garbage. But now with almost 2 million views since August 1st, I guess it’s news, via Yahoo! Sports
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Prestigious academic journal apologizes to Ye Shiwen for controversial article
No, settle down, it wasn’t John Leonard / ASCA, but the (for some of us) lesser Nature, hit hard for attacking Ye Shiwen in the article “Why great Olympic feats raise suspicions“, to the point where their comment system broke down. Having had to change their subtitle because (and I quote) “the original version of…
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Stephanie Rice reveals she used a stripper pole to stay in shape for London
Get that image out of your head, please! Source: ComplexSports
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Crazy people try out ‘the Michael Phelps diet’
Didn’t he say that it was bogus ? Anyways … here we go, via NewTimes “Champion eater” Furious Pete FHM SNL (featuring Phelps himself)