Friday, August 13, 2004
Different Kitchen Olympics special edition
In a slight departure from the normal content on this site, with the Olympics jumping off today, here's some reading to get you up to speed even though most heads I've talked to don't seem to give a f-ck about them this time around. Is it because of the dismal set-up by the Greeks, the taint of the doping scandal in the Track & Field world, fear of terrorism or something else, who knows? (The Seattle Times | Fox Sports Australia | Sky News)
In any case, as a (very) ex-college track athlete, this is the one time every four years where I get real interested in sports so I'll be trying to catch as much of the games as I can. Read on for the low down on the key ish that matters at these games (from my p.o.v.):
- What Olympic Ideal? (The New York Times)
- Michael Phelps: Built to Swim (The New York Times)
- Mighty Michael: Phelps is young, fast and gunning for history. An inside look at a legend in the making. (Newsweek)
- A close look at the Olympic swimming schedule for Michael Phelps’s gold-medal chase. (Newsweek)
- A Long Jump: Track-and-field superstar Marion Jones tries to outrun an accelerating scandal over doping. (Newsweek)
- Newsweek Olympics blog
- Olympian struggle: Fans face boot for eating or drinking wrong brands at games. (The Halifax Herald)
- Keeth Smart: Black fencer ranked #1 in the world | USA Today story
- Maritza Correia (aka my future wife). This Guyanese-American athlete is the first black woman to make the US olympic swim team: WestIndianTimes.net story | Olympic team bio | USA Swimming bio | U. Georgia bio | NBC Olympics website bio
- Daiane dos Santos: the 2003 floor exercise world champion and Brazil's great black gymnastics hope. (The New York Times)
The opening ceremony will air tonight at 8:00pm on NBC.
Related:
- The British-born supermodel Naomi Campbell to carry the torch during its final approach to the Olympic stadium in Athens tonight, WTF? (EURWeb)
