And so we bid adieu to the Olympics. It was certainly an extravagant event costing the Chinese over 41 billion dollars to sponsor it. This Olympics looked like trouble at the outset. An American, Todd Bachman was murdered, and there was an ensuing attack on his wife. Barbara Bachman suffered multiple stab wounds and had [...]
In 1972, Mark Spitz, at 22 took center stage in the Olympics. There are few sports that allow an athlete the possibility of turning multiple gold medals; swimming is the only event that would allow anyone to set the record Mark did. He won an astonishing 7 Gold Medals. Three of his medals came in [...]
Stephanie Brown-Trafton won the first Olympic Gold in women’s discus since 1932. That’s right, it has been 76 years. Many lives have come and gone in the time the US waited for this event. Stephanie said, “I came to the Bird’s Nest to lay a golden egg, and that’s what I did. It’s an awesome [...]
Two teams in the 4×100 Meter did the unacceptable, the unthinkable, the unimaginable. They dropped the baton. If you are slow to take the baton, you may lose a step. But if you drop it, you are disqualified, and someone should have explained this to the team before they stepped on the track! Fortunately, the [...]
Who’d uh thunk it? Coach Hugh McCutcheon said, “There was no one in the world banking on this team winning the Olympic Gold Medal”. He was, of course, speaking of the US Volleyball team that had beaten Brazil three sets to one. Brazil was top ranked and favored heavily to win, but someone forgot to [...]
Poorest Coverage Of Decathlon EVER! W e have often been amazed at how a single man can perform so many feats and get such a small reward. In the decathlon, a man must perform 10 events, and the grueling preparation to do it all is mind-boggling. As one man runs 100 Meters for a medal, [...]
The Spanish outplayed the US for the first quarter, and with an array of players that are all paid millions, the US was trailing by 5 early, their biggest deficit of the Olympics. This was an injured Spanish team, and they were still beating the so-called Redeem Team. Chris Paul, for the US, fortunately was [...]
If you are looking to laugh in the Olympics, you had to see this. Make sure to read all the way to the bottom, or you will miss it. In the Olympic Bronze medal match for taekwondo, Angel Valodia Matos of Cuba, the 2000 Olympic Welterweight Champion, took too much time for an injury time-out [...]
Boxing has been a heritage of the USA in Olympic games going back over 100 years. The US statistics for medals has been staggering, delivering such amazing greats as Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Who watched the 1968 Olympics and does not remember George waving the American flag after winning his bout to [...]
By Evan Roessle, Guest Writer Was this to be a repeat of the 2004 Olympics in Athens? Team USA began that Gold medal game vs. an Argentinean team led by Manu Ginobilli. The US team’s inability to knock down three point field goals was evident as they lost 98-90, but what was more disturbing was [...]
