Category: Olympics

Chad is this big

After Davis and Hedrick took silver and bronze in the 1500 meter, the rivalry heated up in the post game press conference with Shani Davis at one end of the table and Chad Hedrick on the other end.

Hedrick has said previously that he was upset at Davis for not skating in the team pursuit and he reiterated that he felt betrayed and that Davis should support his country and give his team the best chance to win.

Shani Davis let loose about Hedrick’s post 1000 meter snub.

I’m just putting it out there….I’m just putting it out there….I would have thought that another American would have shook my hand after I’d won the 1,000 meters the way I shook his hand – the way I hugged him – after he won the 5,000. He only shakes my hand when I lose. Typical Chad.

Davis then walked out of the press conference. This should get very interesting in the future if the two ever skate in the same heat On the other hand, it’s too bad this rivalry isn’t between Johnny Weir and another male figure skater. Could you imagine that bitch fight?

[NY Daily News]: Shani-Chad ice storm rages

The U.S. isn’t exactly tearing it up on the Gold medal board in Torino. The big names we expected to podium this year such as Bode Miller and Apolo Ohno have fizzled out and the US Hockey team can barely top Latvia. This has been a very disappointing Olympics, even if you don’t work for NBC.

Luckily, the biggest event where we still have a shot is the women’s figure skating and it rests on the shoulders of Shaun White’s crush, Sasha Cohen. I can’t believe I’m blogging about women’s figure skating. I guess this is what happens when March Madness is still so far away.

By the way, I still can’t figure out if Sasha is hot or not.

[NBC]: Cohen chasing Russians, Japanese

If my aunt had…

Well, after all the hype, the magazine covers, the joinbode.com campaign, it turns out that Bode Miller sucks. After finishing 6th in the Giant Slalom, Bode is 0-4 with one event left to go.

Apparently, Bode lives in the same make believe world as some myopic sports fans:

If things went well, I could be sitting on four medals, maybe all of them gold.

Well…ok… I guess that’s a legitimate statement. I mean, I know how he feels, if things had gone well this weekend, I coulda been sitting on four playmates, maybe all of them blonde.

[MSNBC]: Bode confident despite missing medal again

Slip sliding away

We knew this wasn’t going to be US Hockey’s year when they announced the goaltenders for the Olympics and Rick DiPietro promptly went out and allowed 5 goals. Even though DiPietro has been playing well, the rest of the team has been terrible. The US is now 1-2-1 and will rely on goal differential to clear Latvia and move into the quarterfinals. Thank god there isn’t a Jamaican Hockey team.

The US Hockey team suffers from 2 problems: 1) they’re really old and 2) no one can score. The international game is about wide open ice and quickness and the old legs of Chelios, Modano, Guerin, etc, just can’t keep up. There will be no miracle on ice folks, this thing is dead.

No, this isn’t another post on hazing. We’re talking figure skating folks. An openly gay skating judge called it the “gayest sport in America”, yet the sport discriminates against gays.

Officials, judges, and skating federations, especially in the U.S., make it clear that they prefer male skaters to look “masculine” and will be harsher on effeminate-looking skaters when it comes to giving marks or desirable competitive assignments.

So because of fear of lower scores, male figure skaters won’t come out of the closet. This is insane to me. This is figure skating folks, the sport that’s almost synonymous with gay, yet the governing body is afraid of their image if skaters admitted to being gay? That’s like NASCAR afraid that one of their drivers will be too white trash.

[Outsports]: ‘Gayest Sport in America’

Maybe it’s the spirit of the Olympics. Maybe it’s all those NBA Cares commercials drilled into my brain. But it’s time SC blog didn’t just blog about athletes holding up people outside bars and McDonalds. And this story is as good as they come.

Joey Cheek, right after winning the 500-meter speed skating sprint, said that he would donate the $25k prize money to an organization called Right To Play which funds projects to help disadvantaged kids throughout the world develop via sports. He also asked his sponsors to match his donation for a specific project in Chad.

Cheek understood that this was his one moment in the spotlight and he chose the opportunity to help disadvantaged youth. You can email him kudos at [email protected]

I bet Shaun White is feeling pretty bad about using his to ask Sasha Cohen out.

[SFGate]: Heart of gold to go with medal

I got a fever…

Yes, everything can be improved with more cowbell, even the Olympics. Can’t clap with gloves on? No problem, you can bang away at your $20 official Olympic licensed souvenir cowbell. I think this would be a great way to pick up chicks in the Olympic village. Just bang the cowbell once for yes and two for no.

[Cowbell.com]: Official cowbell supplier for the olympics

How’s it going?

Shaun White might be my new favorite Olympian after he reminded us why guys do anything in the first place: to impress chicks. Right after he won his Gold medal in the halfpipe, he started scamming on Sasha Cohen.

I’m hoping Sasha dates gold medalists. Oh yeah, this, I just got it. How’s it going?

He’s even got a line ready. “Hey, you do 1080s, and so do we. How’s it going?” I’m thinking maybe the fact that he’s a gold medalist and multimillionare will do the trick.

This brings up a debate IUfan62 and I have been having. He’s on Shaun’s side but if I had to take a figure skater, I’d go with Tanith Belbin.

[SFGate]: Hey Sasha, meet Shaun, gold medalist

Undercover Doping Tester

Attention Olympic athletes, if some guy next to you in the urinal is checking out your unit, he could just possibly be princessy, or he might be an undercover doping tester trying to figure out how to catch your urine.

The IOC is coming under some fire because Herman Maier was duped into meeting with doping testers when they posed as big fans or his. However, after the test, one of the testers kissed Hermann, because she turned out to be a real fan so I guess it wasn’t a complete lie. The World Anti-Doping Agency however, defends this practice because athletes usually turn around and high tail it out of there as soon as they spot a doping tester.

Somehow, I imagine the Olympic village as one big Benny Hill skit with the athletes as Benny Hill chasing after women and then turning around and running from them once they realize they are underdover doping testers.

[Reuters]: IOC to use any means to test for drugs
[Skiracing.com]: Hermann Maier angered by undercover doping control in Olympic village

As of this writing, the US Olympic team has gathered 2 Gold and 1 Silver medals, a pretty paltry haul after some of the events which the US was exepected to medal in.

First, the Americans didn’t even register on the board in the women’s freestyle moguls.  Then, Bode Miller and teammate Daron Rahlves finished 5th and 10th respectively.  By the way, Bode, when your name is synonymous with wasted skiing, it’s probably not a good idea to be spotted at a bar downing beers, even you claim to only have had a couple and called it an early night.

Later, speedskater Apolo Ohno fell in the 1500m and didn’t even win Bronze, setting off a barrage of terrible “oh no” puns from major news outlets.    You’d think headline writers could be more clever , like an allusion to “Walking on Thin Ice” or something.   Well, at least more original, if not clever.

Finally, perhaps the biggest star in these Olympic games, Michelle Kwan, had to call it quits and a career because of a groin injury.  Here’s a video of her training session.  It’s amazing to see an end of a career caught on video, much like  Elizabeth Berkley in Showgirls.

Thank god for The Flying Tomato and Danny Kass who finished 1-2 in the halfpipe competition. Unfortunately, because this is snowboarding, we’re subjected to wannabe hip AP writers telling us that “Shaun White punked the competition.”  Gnarly dude.