Magic: ‘I cried like a baby’
Basketball legend Magic Johnson tells Larry King he “cried like a baby” when Sen. Obama won.
Censors not able to keep up with NBC’s online Olympics coverage
I am sure that you were fearing censorship at these Beijing Olympics.No, not censorship by the Chinese.
Censorship by those folks at NBC who would prefer you to watch what they want you to watch and, most specifically, when they want you to watch it.
Well, here I am live on a Friday night, freely watching NBCOlympics.com and witnessing the quite glorious sight of a Chinese cyclist trying to mend his bike.
It looks to me as if his back wheel has suffered a case of the bends.
Looking beneath the screen, I see that his name is Zhang and he is in 135th place. Who knew there would be that many riders in this, um, race over some sort of distance along misty roads that resemble London at six o’clock in the morning (Except that there are no drunks visible.)?
U.S. relay team stripped of 2000 Olympic gold medals
BEIJING, China (AP) — The International Olympic Committee has stripped gold medals from the U.S. men’s 1,600-meter relay team that competed at the 2000 Games in the aftermath of Antonio Pettigrew’s admission that he was doping at the time.
Antonio Pettigrew’s doping confession has cost his U.S. relay teammates a gold medal.Antonio Pettigrew’s doping confession has cost his U.S. relay teammates a gold medal.
The IOC executive board disqualified the entire team, the fourth gold and sixth overall medal stripped from that U.S. track contingent in the past eight months for doping.
Three gold and two bronze were previously removed after Marion Jones confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs.
Saturday’s decision was almost a formality after Pettigrew gave up his gold medal in June. He admitted in court in May that he used EPO and human growth hormone from 1997 to 2003.
Five of Pettigrew’s teammates also lost their medals: Michael Johnson and twins Alvin and Calvin Harrison ran in the final, while Jerome Young and Angelo Taylor featured in the preliminaries.
Pistorius misses out on SA Olympic squad
After failing to meet the qualifying standard to run in the 400 meters, Pistorius was also left off the 4×400m relay team after Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene confirmed that four other athletes had faster times than him.Pistorius has battled with authorities for months, winning an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport to allow him to race against able-bodied athletes and more recently facing concerns that he could pose a danger to other athletes.