Bejing Olympics 2008
So here it is after one week of competition.
So far it has been a pretty good olympics. Many of the compeititions have been exciting to watch to be sure especially on the swimming though from the coverage on NBC, it was more like the Michael Phelps show. Question is what NBC is going to [...]
I am a Olympics junkie. For the past twenty years or so, I have been an interested devotee of the games and for most of the events no obscure it may be.
It has been quite a change from how I track the games events and results from 1988 to 2008. Back then, I was [...]
Not a great day for Canada on Monday’s actions at the Beijing Olympics. Another day without any medals along with some performances that were less than sub par in some cases, others better than expected but still short.
Many sports had medal events which Canada was not expected to do well like the lightweight weightlifting events. [...]
Sport: Fencing
Age: 50
Hometown: Edmonton Alberta
Medal Potential: Unlikely- Women’s Foil
Luan Jujie is a renown fencer though not so in Canada. In 1984 at the Los Angeles Olympic Games, she won Gold for China, its first fencing medal ever. For that feat, she is considered to be one of the top 50 athlete of the past [...]
Sport: Tennis
Age: 36
Hometown: Toronto Ontario
Medal Potential: Good- Men’s Doubles
Daniel Nestor is a rarity among the Canadian contingent at the Beijing Olympics. He has actually won an Olympic medal, Gold at the 2000 Sydney Games where he was doubled with Sebastien Lebrun. For several years, he has been among the top doubles player in the [...]
Sport: Swimming
Age: 24
Hometown: Mission BC
Medal Potential: Very Good – 200m Freestyle, 4×100 Freestyle Relay
The 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was an ignominious one for the Canadian swimming team. No medals and an overall poor performance. This was a change for Olympics past as one of the surest bets for Canadian medals at the games was [...]
Well, I watched the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Games. I think that the artistic half of the ceremony is the finest I have ever seen and I have seen several over the decades. Beautiful, graceful, dignified , this celebration of a country’s history and aspirations goes well to introduce the new China to the [...]
As with every Olympics now, Sports Illustrated has come out with its selections for the medal winners for all of the Olympic Sports. As usual, many people take exception on why someone was not selected to win their event or even place or show. It is not that SI is considered to be the best [...]