Friday - August 24, 2012
Burn The Witch!! Burn The Witch!!
File this one under “damned if you do”
Armstrong faces lifetime ban, loss of 7 Tour titles after dropping doping charges fight
With stunning swiftness, the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency said Thursday night it will strip Lance Armstrong of his unprecedented seven Tour de France titles after he dropped his fight against drug charges that threatened his legacy as one of the greatest cyclists of all time.
Travis Tygart, USADA’s chief executive, said Armstrong would also be hit with a lifetime ban on Friday. And under the World Anti-Doping Code, he would lose the bronze medal from the 2000 Olympics as well as any awards, event titles and cash earnings.
Armstrong, who retired last year, effectively dropped his fight by declining to enter USADA’s arbitration process—his last option—because he said he was weary of fighting accusations that have dogged him for years. He has consistently pointed to the hundreds of drug tests he passed as proof of his innocence while piling up Tour titles from 1999 to 2005.
“There comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, `Enough is enough.’ For me, that time is now,” Armstrong said. He called the USADA investigation an “unconstitutional witch hunt.”
USADA reacted quickly and treated Armstrong’s decision as an admission of guilt, hanging the label of drug cheat on an athlete who was a hero to thousands for overcoming life-threatening testicular cancer and for his foundation’s support for cancer research.
“It is a sad day for all of us who love sport and athletes,” Tygart said. “It’s a heartbreaking example of win at all costs overtaking the fair and safe option. There’s no success in cheating to win.”
And it goes on and on. Disgusting. Armstrong has been under these accusations for nearly a decade and a half. A two year federal investigation turned up NOTHING, yet half a year later USADA was ready to burn him at the stake because some other bicycle doper dropped a dime on him while trying to lessen his own charges. And we MUST pander to Europe, especially those sniveling, sanctimonious, snide, and envious Fwench, who just can not stand it that an American won their beloved event. Time. After. Time. After. Time. After. Time. Impossible! Inconceivable! There must be cheating!!
USADA maintains that Armstrong has used banned substances as far back as 1996, including the blood-booster EPO and steroids as well as blood transfusions—all to boost his performance.
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“There is zero physical evidence to support (the) outlandish and heinous claims,” Armstrong said. “The only physical evidence here is the hundreds of (doping) controls I have passed with flying colors.”
Armstrong sued USADA in Austin, where he lives, in an attempt to block the case and was supported by the UCI. A judge threw out the case on Monday, siding with USADA despite questioning the agency’s pursuit of Armstrong in his retirement.
“USADA’s conduct raises serious questions about whether its real interest in charging Armstrong is to combat doping, or if it is acting according to less noble motives,” such as politics or publicity, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks wrote.
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Permalink • Monday - August 13, 2012
olympic team doesn’t want to return home, they want to stay here. of course they do.
A week ago we heard about this group disappearing and now here they are.
They were the boxers from Cameroon. All five of them. They walked away from the program and are now asking to stay here in the UK.
Oh bloody great. Just what this country needs. Well, actually it doesn’t need this problem at all.
I was only planning to post the previous cry me a river and then found this story.
I wonder if this will be another case of human rights and a long drawn out thing where in the end they’ll get to stay.
On benefits of course. If the Brits don’t say ENOUGH and deport them, they are in even worse shape then we thought.
On the other hand, weren’t the opening ceremonies in part a celebration of “multi-culturalism” and the benefits of diversity?
Yes, I believe they were.
Five Cameroon boxers who vanished from Olympics claim they were ‘threatened’ and want to stay in UK ‘to develop their careers’
The athletes say they had been treated badly by Cameroon officialsThey said there was no support for athletes in their country
The group allege that their promised bonuses had been halved
By EMILY ALLENFive Olympic boxers from Cameroon who disappeared during the Games wish to remain in Britain to develop their careers, it has emerged.
The men say the Cameroon Olympic delegation ‘threatened’ them so they fled from the Olympic village in Stratford, east London last week.
Thomas Essomba, Christian Donfack Adjoufack, Abdon Mewoli, Blaise Yepmou Mendouo and Serge Ambomowere, are among seven athletes from the African nation who have disappeared.
But at a meeting with reporters in a secret location they claimed they want to stay put in the UK not for economic reasons but because there is no support for athletes in their home country.
The boxers, who have a visa to stay in the UK until November, claim Olympic officials from their country had treated them badly and the amount they were promised in bonuses had been halved.
Mendouo said officials had asked them to hand over their passports after their fights and tried to send them home before the Games had finished.
In a BBC interview, Mendouo said they decided to fight ‘as we are fighters’ and said the group was looking for a sponsor to back them and secure long-term residency.
He said: ‘We want to become professional. We cannot return to Cameroon… if we return, we will not practise anymore.’
However, head of the Cameroon delegation to the Olympics, David Ojong, refuted the allegations and claimed last week that the seven sportsmen had left to stay in Europe for economic reasons.
Mr Ojong said in a message sent to Cameroon’s Ministry of Sports and Physical Education at the time: ‘What began as rumour has finally turned out to be true. Seven Cameroonian athletes who participated at the 2012 London Olympic Games have disappeared from the Olympic Village.’
The five boxers all disappeared after being eliminated from the games last Sunday.
Reserve women’s goalkeeper, Drusille Ngako, who was not one of the 18 included in the final squad for the Olympics, went missing shortly before Cameroon’s last friendly match.
Whilst her team-mates left for Coventry for their game against New Zealand, she vanished.
A few days later, swimmer Paul Ekane Edingue and his personal belongings were also not found in his room.
International Olympic Committee officials said last week they had not been notified about the missing athletes.
The disappearances are not the first time Cameroonian athletes have gone missing during international sports competitions.
At past Francophonie and Commonwealth games events, as well as at junior soccer competitions, several Cameroonians have quit their delegation without official consent.
The UK Border Agency could not confirm whether the boxers had sought asylum in Britain.
Oh good one!! The boxing was probably just a ruse to get here in the first place. They must think we are completely stupid.... oh hang on a minute, urm silly me!!
- Debsy, Andover, Hants, 13/8/2012 16:09
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My posting has been a bit spotty of late.
Well, I may not have been up with the birdies like Drew, I guess 7:30am isn’t exactly the crack of dawn. Is it?
Have been taking care of wife a lot who is on the mend but still not well enough in many respects to look after herself. She’s on mega doses totaling I think 7 pills. A day. Plus the liquid pain med. which is Morphine. Which after awhile makes her, not spacey, not high, nothin’ like that. But it does something and makes a change I don’t have the vocabulary to describe. Nothing urgent, but somehow different for several hours.
And then there’s our back yard, or as it would be referred to here, our back garden.
It’s been sadly neglected for too long. Partly due to very bad weather, lots of rain, which even so me and the birds have been out in working anyway.
Took advantage of a few very good days and really went to work weeding stinging nettles taller then me. I’m 5-10 and some of those darn things really tower over me. Cutting and trimming bushes and cutting away dead branches from trees, cutting away the ivy that’s been winding its way around everything. Hired a guy with a pick up to haul away all the stuff and now have more. Lots more. But after yesterday I just had to take today off. Muscles ache from lack of exercise, and a bum left knee and arthritic feet not too happy with me. But it’s funny how much better I feel once the days work is done. I actually look forward to the next days work.
So that’s some of what I’ve been up to.
Reading papers about the Olympics, not a lot cos I don’t care that much. But what I have seen in the reports, is everyone crying. It’s so nice to see the guys find their feminine side and break out in tears. Innit it? Jeesh. There’s a brief line about two skull rowers, the poor, poor guys (two of them) were in tears because they won silver instead of the gold they missed by fractions of a second. Is that something for anyone to cry over publicly?
And everyone’s doing it.
Those of you who know some of my habits will also know I relate so many things to music. Not the closing ceremonies which I caught a fraction of here at the computer. I don’t understand the people who actually believe what they were listening to was really music. I can think of so many other words to describe the crap being amplified and the silly looking dancers and stupid looking costumes, etc.,etc.
Okay so then back to what I wanted to say before I sidetracked myself.
I relate things to music and think that the theme for the closing ceremonies should have been:
CRY ME A RIVER
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Permalink • Friday - August 03, 2012
The Best Part Of the Olympics you’re Not Seeing
Are you watching the fencing?
Probably not.
It’s hard to watch on TV. The blades move faster than the TV camera can follow them and the judges speak in French.
It’s hard to understand the rules, of which there are many, and quite a few of them are really hard to understand even if you are a fencer yourself.
You won’t see gigantic muscular people performing superhuman feats of strength and endurance. You won’t see microscopic people twisting turning and spinning as they go flying through the air. You won’t see much of anything really, but what you see will be in a brightly lit and colorful environment, like watching some kind of sporting event held at the local dance club.
And the announcers can explain it all to you, and it still won’t make much sense.
But there has been incredible drama on the fencing strip at this Olympics.
- Bad judging cost South Korea’s Shin A-Lam her shot at the gold and silver medals. The referee kept resetting the time clock to a second even though in any normal circumstance this next picture is that of a victory:
The fastest human eyeblink is around 125ms. The fastest reaction time to an external stimulus is about twice that: 250ms or a quarter second. In the fencing sport of epee, a hit has to last at least 10ms to be valid, but if the other fencer lands a hit within 40ms of that hit, then both hits are valid. Epee models the duel, and in a duel it is certainly possible for both swordsmen to get wounded. But to keep it fair, once the time between my hit and your hit is more than half the blink of an eye, then it is no longer a double hit and I’ll get the point if I hit you before you hit me. But even though the rules allow for double hits, no match can end in a tie, so unless there is priority the last double hits are thrown out. Priority??? Yes. An odd rule put in so that no match ends in a tie when the clock runs out. A halt is called when only 1 minute remains on the clock, and a coin is tossed. The winner is given priority, which means that IF the match score is tied AND that tie score is less than the number of points the match is being played to (usually 5 or 15, but sometimes only 1) AND the clock runs out, THEN the person with priority is declared to be the winner. Although I think that for the Olympics, what they do is add some extra seconds but they keep the priority. So you get 30 seconds of overtime, try and score as much as you can, and THEN if the clock runs out without a single winning touch then the priority person wins. It is a bit confusing.
But that is not what happened here. The ref (aka the President) kept throwing out the final double touch and resetting the clock to 1 second. Unlike swimming or any of the racing sports, fencing doesn’t use a partial second clock. No tenths or hundredths of a second, even though the computer powered scoring equipment is accurate down to the nanosecond level. So. It takes a quarter second to respond to the Go! command ("Allez!"), it takes some small by measurable amount of time for one fencer to get close enough to strike at the other fencer (6 feet at 30mph is 150ms), and it takes at least 10ms for a single, and probably 30ms for a double hit to occur. So between the Allez! and the Halt! is 250+150+30=430 ... almost a half second, if not more. So by the 2nd double the clock should have run down. But the President is all powerful, and he reset the clock. Bad. And the winner lost. And I guess no one explained it to her in her native tongue, because she could have just retreated 3 steps and let the clock run out.
And there were tears. Lots. And there was an instant and prolonged protest, which left Shin standing on the piste in front of a crowd of thousands, because if she left the strip then she’d be quitting the bout and her protest would be invalid. And they left her there for an hour. On international TV. Crying. And nobody else could fence either.
Nice work scumbags.
And while her protest was ineffective - not because her claim was invalid, but because the bout President is effectively all powerful, the international fencing federation (the FIE) came back a day later and offered her a good sportsmanship medal. Which is pretty much them admitting that they messed up, and that it was their poor judging that threw the match - she politely told them to go fuck themselves. In Korean of course, which is a language the FIE doesn’t use, so all they heard was No.
The spineless dogs of the FIE (mostly Frenchmen) even tried to blame the whole thing on a 15 year old English kid who was volunteering as timekeeper, but let’s face it: the IOC may be in charge but it’s the FIE running the show, and they’re only an hour by Chunnel from their home grounds. They could have, and should have, provided their own professional timekeeper, one with loads of training and experience, and lightning fast reflexes and hearing. This is the Olympics after all, where fencing is pretty much the only sport that has ALWAYS been part of the games no matter what; you send your very best people, period.
So that’s one bit of drama.
UPDATE: I’m still a little connected to the fencing community. Here’s a link I got from some insiders that explains the situation clearly. And it turns out to be twice as bad as I originally thought. This was a really terrible fiasco. And perhaps NOT for Shin, as the claim in the comments that she was crowding (stealing yardage) would be very easy to prove if you had a video of the bout. Piss poor judging to allow that to happen, but piss poor judging on so many other aspects of the bout it will become a “how not to” instructional video in the future. Crivens, what a mess.
- A nice bit of Cool Factor. While the swimmers and gymnasts and weightlifters all have their nice little patriotic warmup jackets, the fencers have taken the patriotism to an extreme, with their hi-tech graphics. Awesome!!
If you tuned in to fencing early Saturday morning—and you should, because it’s awesome—you caught a glimpse of the early leader in best uniforms. As modeled by American Nicole Ross, the already menacing fencing masks took on a layer of patriotism with the addition of the American flag. The whole goal of the Olympics is to get your flag raised.
The Brits have done this too. Expect the rest of the world to follow suit soon. Want more hi tech gee-whiz-ardry? The foil bib is now half electric, connected to the electrically conductive torso cover called a lame (la may) by a clip and a wire. Nice, but it’s the wireless transceiver on the helmets that really rocks. Hit your opponent with the proper part of your weapon for the proper amount of time and in the proper place, and your helmet lights up in red or green. Say what? No more dragging a skinny wire up and down the piste, trying not to trip on it, praying that the body cord connection doesn’t fail, and hoping that nothing goes wrong with the reels this time ... fencing has gone wireless. Which is so cool ... but opens a whole new can of worms for the cheaters and hackers who might mess with the radio signals.
- More drama, or just more stupid?
US Epee Fencer takes a gamble, loses everything. TWICE.
With 20 seconds left in priority time (overtime) of the bronze medal match, Jinsun Jung of Korea had to be the aggressor. Had the bout ended in a tie in points, Kelsey would have captured bronze with “priority” in the extra session. Jung lunged with his epee and nicked Kesley on the foot — falling on his back in celebration, before running to hug his coaches after the bronze-clinching 12-11 win.
“He hit my foot by, like a quarter of an inch,” said Kelsey, rolling his eyes as he moved his fingers closely to signify the lack of distance. The reason Kelsey faced Jung for third place was because he lost in the semifinals to Ruben Limardo Gascon of Venezuela — again in priority time, and completely by Kelsey’s choice.
He was in good spirits after the fourth-place finish, which felt odd for a man who gambled twice and lost. Does he play poker? “Nope. Too poor,” he quipped.
In the semifinal, Kelsey’s game plan involved trying to keep the score and the action to a minimum. At one point, both fencers were called for “passivity” as neither went on the attack.
“I felt like Limardo was holding distance well, was making it incredibly difficult to attack. So take the passivity, maybe the pressure will build and he’ll crack.”
Kelsey wanted the match to go to priority time, strategically. So he made a proposition to his foe. “I asked the guy if he wanted to go one-touch, and he said, ‘Yeah,’” he said. “I think I’m the only person in the world that does that.”
In extra time, Kelsey had to be the aggressor. He lunged, missed, and Limardo counter-attacked for the win, 6-5.
So Kelsey elected to do the one touch sudden death thing TWICE in overtime, and lost both times.
“It’s fun. Olympic medal. All on one touch. It’s very exciting,” said Kelsey, whose fourth-place finish was one of the best in American history for the event.
Which is all very honorable and sportsmanlike and so on, but puh-fuckin-leez. He could have had Silver at least just by taking the defense and being passive in both match’s overtimes. Getting into the final seed would mean either Silver or Gold. Losing the semi-final seed means he didn’t even get Bronze. Hooray for his sense of fun and adventure and all, now try and find someone who actually wants to WIN for the next Olympic team please.
- Oh, speaking of winners ... the guy who actually WON the Men’s Epee was Ruben Limardo Gascon of Venezuela. Venezuela’s first Gold Medal in 44 years. How prophetic. Gascon wins the dueling medal. Such perfection. How proper. Because everyone who doesn’t know jack about fencing will almost always make some Three Musketeers remark should the sport ever come up in conversation. And d’Artagnan was the Gascon.
But it gets better than that. After his victory, a bemused Gascon left the competition venue, got on the public subway for the ride back to his hotel room, and showed all of London his medal and let them touch it if they wanted. And he didn’t even get mugged.
A newly-crowned Olympic fencing champion proved he hasn’t let fame go his head when taking his medal home on the tube. Venezuela’s Ruben Limardo gave his fellow travellers a sight to remember when boarding the Jubilee line with his prize around his neck.
A beaming Limardo posed for photos as he stood in the carriage on the London underground.
The photo of the Venezuelan athlete who won gold in fencing Wednesday night and then boarded London’s subway system hours later, letting strangers touch his medal, has spread around the globe. At a time when the Olympic games are criticized for turning into a billion-dollar affair where athletes are treated as celebrities, Ruben Limardo’s simple decision to take public transport, instead of a chauffeured car, has received international praise.
“What a fantastic thing to do! Must have given all the passengers a real treat,” wrote one reader of Yahoo News.
“I hope they gave him a round of applause, he deserves it. Good stuff mate,” said another.
“Wow can’t imagine Michael Phelps doing something like that, well done!”“I’ve never seen someone so happy in my life,” Chris Scanlan, told the BBC. “And I touched his medal. It’s probably the first time a British hand has been on a fencing medal for centuries!”
Ouch! Yet so true! - More dramas? Any number of the fencers expected to win didn’t. They didn’t even make the finals. American Mariel Zagunis, perhaps the only professional female saver fencer in the nation, was one of them. What the heck happened? She had it sewn up, and then just let it go.
LONDON — Mariel Zagunis, the top-ranked U.S. fencer who captured individual sabre gold in 2004 and 2008, was stunned in the semifinals of the London Games by Jiyeon Kim of Korea, ending Zagunis’ quest for a three-peat.
Zagunis then lost to Olga Kharlan of Ukraine in the bronze-medal bout, leaving the event without a medal for the first time.
At one point, it looked like Zagunis would cruise to the finals. Zagunis held a 12-5 lead at one point in the match, but watched Kim erode it with spectacular counter-attacks as the American star aggressively tried to close out the match. Kim won 10 of the last 11 points to advance to the gold-medal match, while Zagunis would fence for bronze against Olga Kharlan of Ukraine.
The match began with Zagunis, the U.S. flag-bearer at the Opening Ceremony, opening with three points in five seconds of the first round. Kim was overly aggressive. [Zagunis’ 3 touches were stop hits made against Kim’s attacks. Be aggressive but don’t leave yourself exposed!]
But as the match progressed, it was Zagunis that forced the issue, with Kim exhibiting great defense, patience and picking apart the U.S. champion’s attacks. Kim let out a loud celebration at 15-13, as Zagunis’ run ended.
LONDON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - In one night of fencing at the London Olympics a mighty champion stumbled from her perch, a nation found redemption in gold and two men went where none of their compatriots had gone before.
The biggest fencing upset of the Games so far was a self-inflicted wound by women’s sabre fencer, flag-bearer, and gold medal favorite Mariel Zagunis, 27, of the United States. In a spectacular collapse Zagunis, who needed just three more touches, or points, to make it into the gold medal match, went from leading South Korea’s Kim Jiyeon 12-5 to losing 15-13. Her attempt to win a third straight individual gold medal was compounded by a loss in the bronze medal match, meaning the world number one came away empty handed.
- South Korea’s Kim Jiyeon went on to take the Gold in Women’s Sabre, perhaps making up a little for the defeat suffered by her countrywoman Shin in epee.
- Venezuela’s Ruben Limardo Gascon won the nation’s first gold in 44 years and their first fencing medal at a Games by beating Bartosz Piasecki of Norway 15-10 in the epee.
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The silver marked Norway’s first Olympic fencing medal and for Piasecki, a high school maths teacher who heads back to the classroom in two weeks, an unexpected prize.Piasecki was not even expected to medal, and had been ranked 47th or something lowly like that before the Olympics.
Tears, fears, chills, spills and excitement, and possibly a bit of inscrutable cheating ... all the color and drama you could ask for, all on the disco lit stage of the Olympic piste. With light up helmets too! And seen by just about no one on American TV.
We now return you to your nightly focus on perky bottomed barely pubescent little micro-women in sparkly tights covered in chalk dust, followed by giants in the swimming pools, in their rowboats, and on the volleyball and basketball courts.
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Permalink • Monday - July 30, 2012
Olympic Incentive
The Haryana government Monday announced a reward of Rs.one crore for shooter Gagan Narang for winning a bronze medal for the country in the 10-metre Air Rifle event at the London Olympics. This is the first medal for India in the 2012 Games.
Even though Narang does not belong to Haryana, he has been given the reward under the category of sportspersons from the state as his family roots are from the northern state.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda announced the reward for Narang immediately after he won bronze in the shooting event in London on Monday.
Narang, who lives in Hyderabad, had told Hooda in October 2010, after the New Delhi Commonwealth Games (CWG), that his family had lived in Haryana’s Panipat town, 180 km from here, for decades before moving down south Hooda said Narang has brought laurels to the state and the country.
The chief minister said players from Haryana winning a gold medal in the Olympics would get Rs.2.5 crore, silver medallists Rs.1.5 crore and those winning bronze Rs.one crore.
A crore is a special number in India, equal to 10,000,000. Ten million. So ten million rupees is $179,800, depending on what time you run the currency converter.
Narang was also rewarded for winning medals at the 2010 Common Wealth Games in Delhi. Narang, who won four gold medals in shooting in Delhi, walked away with a cash bonanza of Rs.37.5 lakh, and a new car worth Rs.8 lakh..
A lakh is another of those special Indian numbers, this one being equal to 100,000; 37.5 lakh Rupees is about $67,500.
The Olympic event was won by Romanian Alin George Moldoveanu, giving his country their first gold medal in these games. Silver went to Niccolo Campriani from Italy. The final scores between the top 3 places spanned one entire point: Moldoveanu 702.1 points, Campriani 701.5 points, Gagan Narang 701.1.
The Men’s Air Rifle competition uses a .177 caliber (4.5mm) air rifle with open sights, no sling, 12.13lb weight, standing position only. The course of fire scores 10 for a bulls eye for the first 60 shots in 105 minutes, and the top 8 qualifiers then fire an additional 10 rounds at an amazingly small target where the 9 ring is barely larger than a single caliber across - a 5.5mm circle for a 4.5mm pellet, and the inner 10 ring is subdivided into 9 super-fine concentric circles, each inner one scoring a tenth more than the previous outer one so that the maximum score possible is 10.9. So a perfect 70 shot score is 709.
The cash award by his former home state somehow does not qualify as a prize or a paycheck, which allows Narang to hold on to his amateur status. Yeah Right. Go figure.
American shooter Matt Emmons did poorly, coming in 35th place. He has been plagued with back problems; holding a 12 pound rifle still as a statue for over an hour plays merry hell with your musculature.
The Colorado Springs resident got off to a slow start and finished prelims 35th.
“My back hurts, man,” Emmons said. “I haven’t been able to figure out, especially in air rifle, what I’m doing wrong in my position that’s causing it to hurt so much.”
For perspective, air rifle isn’t his specialty. He admittedly hasn’t had a good score in three years. He wasn’t expected to medal. But the back problem that has plagued him the last few months has not gone away.
And his best event, the 50-meter rifle 3 position, is next Monday.
After the competition, Emmons walked up to his wife, Katy, who shoots for the Czech Republic. She lightly put her hand on his. She knows what he’s going through.
“Katy was watching me and she said my body was just swaying back and forth,” Emmons said. “I could see that in my hold. Like when I’m looking through my sights, it’ll come down and settle down on the (bullseye) then move to the right or the left and then back and then hold. It’s just not consistent.”
He shot only a 97 out of 100 in his first of six series of a competition won by Romania’s Alin George Moldoveanu, who missed a medal in Beijing four years ago by .08 of an inch.
At least this time Emmons didn’t shoot the wrong target by accident this time, or get another DQ for starting to shoot before his allotted time.
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no muzzie head scarf for martial art muzzies at olympics. sheesh. them again!
Saudi Arabia only agreed to send a women’s team to London on condition their two athletes respect a strict dress code.
Oh I see. The Saudis were probably doing the west and the Olympics a grand favor by even agreeing to allow the women to come here.
Very nice of them.
Stone age assholes I swear they all are. Look at the stipulations the Saudis made. Read this nonsense.
One of the women is American raised.
The fans in my puter are running hi. Shouldn’t cos I just booted only minutes ago. Funny noises never before heard, and freezes. Damn it. I never get freeze ups on this thing. Guess I do now. Maybe it’s the browser?
So take a look at this. Why do they even need anyone from the muslim world at the olympics anyway?
How many of you reading this saw the opening ceremonies and what did you think of them? I only saw part. Fireworks okay.
How about you?
Saudis angry over Olympic judo hijab ban(AFP) – 1 day ago
LONDON — Saudi Arabia have complained to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after judo fighter Wojdan Shaherkani was banned from wearing the hijab head scarf during competition.
The 18-year-old heavyweight, a member of a two-woman team who are the first female competitors sent from the conservative kingdom to an Olympics, was ordered by the International Judo Federation to fight with her head uncovered.
But the Saudis have lodged a complaint over the ban.
“At the moment we are discussing with the International Judo Federation and the Saudi Arabia Olympic Committee to find a solution for her to compete,” an IOC spokesman told AFP on Friday.
“I don’t think she has to compete until August 3. The rules of the federation are she cannot wear a scarf for safety reasons.”
IJF president Marius Vizer had told the Saudi fighter the hijab cannot be worn in competition.
“The Saudi Arabian athlete will take part in judo and she will fight according to the principle and spirit of judo, so without a hijab,” said Vizer following Thursday’s draw.
Judo applies strict safety rules and any covering on the head is deemed to present a risk to the fighter’s health.
Saudi Arabia only agreed to send a women’s team to London on condition their two athletes respect a strict dress code.
The country’s most senior sports official Prince Nawaf bin Faisal said that the duo would be allowed to compete so long as they were “wearing suitable clothing that complies with sharia (religious law)”.
Additionally he added other stipulations, including “the athlete’s guardian agrees and attends with her,” and that “there must also be no mixing with men during the Games”.
Men and women share the judo training venue, warm-up area in the competition hall and fight side-by-side on the various mat areas inside the arena.
American-raised 800m runner Sarah Attar is the second woman in the Saudi squad in London.
She has spent little time in the Islamic kingdom and grew up mostly in California, where she took up cross-country running.
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A reason given for the headscarf ban is that it is against martial arts principles, and could be dangerous.
Right. And nobody suggests that looking like you came out of the 7th century doesn’t fit the host country. Oh but why bring that up?
That doesn’t matter. The host country is supposed to bend to the customs of the visitor.
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another victim of political correctness and the games haven’t even started
Just one more reason to HATE!!!! political correctness and the left and libtards and all the other jerks who are “offended” on behalf of other people.
Why oh why do nut cases like that SOB in Co. hurt and kill innocent people in random shooting? Why just once, just one freeking time, why can’t someone blow away a whole group of lefties. Never happens.
So here’s what got my goat today.
I don’t follow Olympic sport so I could care less who wins and who loses and who gets gold. But I know they work hard to earn their place and one (FUNNY) joke at the expense of a group should not place them outside the human race. What a farce.
Writing on Twitter, a Greek athlete wrote the following.
‘With so many Africans in Greece… At least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food!!!’
This is a reference to an outbreak of the West Nile virus, a potentially fatal disease transmitted by mosquitoes of African origin, in Athens this summer.
One man died and another 180 have been infected since the outbreak began.
Where’s the racial insult? Did she use the ‘N’ word. Did she point out that Yogurt has more culture then Africa? What?
Every damn thing comes down to what some ass-wipe liberal says is racism. Sick of the whole thing. I wish I could wish liberals dead. They are a blight. A menace.
I understand her desire to save her position, one she worked hard for. But I am disappointed that she didn’t defend herself and instead made an apology. She should have known they (left) lives on groveling but would not change their empty minds. And look here at how the Mail presents the story with the headline they have used.
Greek triple jumper booted off Olympic team in disgrace after she mocked African immigrants on TwitterBy ADAM SHERGOLD
A Greek triple jumper was today kicked off her Olympic team over comments on Twitter mocking African immigrants and expressing support for a far-right party.
The Hellenic Olympic Committee said Voula Papachristou was dropped from the team ‘for statements contrary to the values and ideas of the Olympic movement.’
Papachristou, who is currently in Athens, was due to travel to London shortly before the start of the athletics events but has now been excluded.
She also re-tweeted a comment from Ilias Kasidiaris, a politician with Golden Dawn, criticising Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s stance on immigration.
It created a storm on the social network, with other users accusing her of being a ‘Nazi’ and a supporter of the extremist right-wing political party.
Papachristou later took to Twitter to try and defuse the row, saying: ‘I apologize if I insulted people! I have no mingling with politics!!! I am only athlete!!’
But her comments were to no avail as pressure mounted on her to be thrown out of the Greek Olympic squad.
The left-wing party Democratic Left led calls for her to step down, saying ‘racist humour and jokes’ had no place in Greek society.
This afternoon, Isidoros Kouvelos, President of the Greek Olympics Committee, confirmed her expulsion.
Papachristou has since apologised again for her comments on her Facebook page. She wrote: I would like to express my heartfelt apologies for the unfortunate and tasteless joke I published on my personal Twitter account.
‘I am very sorry and ashamed for the negative responses I triggered, since I never wanted to offend anyone, or to encroach human rights.
‘My dream is connected to the Olympic Games and I could not possibly participate if I did not respect their values. Therefore, I could never believe in discrimination between human beings and races.
‘I would like to apologise to all my friends and fellow athletes, who I may have insulted and shamed, the National Team, as well as the people and companies who support my athletic career. Finally, I would like to apologise to my coach and my family.’
The 23-year-old was not among the favourites for gold in London. She finished 11th in the European Championships in Helsinki earlier this year and was 8th at last August’s World Championships in Daegu.
Her personal best in the triple jump is 14.72m and her season’s best was just 14.58m, half a metre behind the favourites.
Her Twitter account has been taken down.
Right, so her account was dropped and now what else?
The very bastards who scream about “rights” are very quick to stifle the rights of others under the guise of fairness and sweetness and light.
Oh yeah, and civil and human rights.
But only for them and the ppl they can pressure into think like them.
I’d like to know where and how she “mocked” the immigrants mentioned in the headline. What a boring fuckin world this is gonna be when the libtards finally win and control everything. And they will ya know. Win that is. Because there isn’t anyone out there (Self Censored).
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Olympics underway in a matter of days. Some are quite excited by the hype. Yes. I understand there are folks who trained and dreamed of being part of this and good luck to them. I am very glad we don’t live nearby or in London. I bet these folks wished they didn’t have to be where they are. The Olympics, once ALL about athletics, are now it just seems as much about commercial endorsements and high handed dictates about what a person who has paid for the overpriced ticket can wear. The word is out that anyone sporting a T-Shirt or apparel with name or logos not of any of the sponsors, will be denied entry to the games. Seems a bit much doesn’t it? With the sponsors names and colors emblazoned everywhere, what matter if a dozen ppl show up wearing a shirt or jacket or whatever, with another name?
And not everyone is happy to have the games here either. The reader comments are quite interesting on the subject.
Notice that nice tempting empty lane, reserved for Olympic high mucky-mucks.
Gridlocked Games: London’s motorists caught in huge jams with average speeds of just 10mph as Olympic lanes come into force… and it’s not much better on the Tube
Rush hour traffic heightened today as ‘Games Lanes’ come into force
M4 and A40 in west London among roads facing gridlock this morning
12-mile tailbacks on M4 approach to London as athletes and VIPs flood in
Three Underground lines were delayed in knock-on disruption - including Tube line which will take fans to Wembley Stadium
London roads ‘at full capacity’ as experts encourage using public transport
Hot weather also causes more delays due to speed restrictions on trains
Drivers excluded from 30 miles of Games Lanes in the capital from today
Ministers allowed to use the lanes for ‘operational and security’ reasons
Despite miles of delays, Locog insists ‘London moving well this morning’
By RAY MASSEY, TRANSPORT EDITOR and CHRIS PARSONS
As Olympic planners prepared for Friday’s opening ceremony, ‘Games Lanes’ came into force across London, causing inevitable traffic chaos on already busy road networks, as well as delays on the London Underground as those trying to escape queues opted for public transport.
Police warned that London’s roads are already ‘at capacity’, while motorists told of rush-hour gridlock, including queues of cars travelling at just 10mph along the eastbound stretch of the M4 from Heathrow into London.
There were a number of heavily-congested hot spots around London during the rush-hour, with the M4 and A4 approach in west London twice as busy as normal according to traffic analysts.
Other areas of London where there were rush-hour jams included Tower Bridge and Baker Street.
On the Tube, there were severe rush-hour delays today on three Underground lines, two days before the start of the Olympics.
One of the affected lines was the Metropolitan which will carry thousands of people to Wembley Stadium for Olympic football matches.
Lots more to see and read:
LET THE GAMES BEGIN, DAILY MAIL
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keep ur i on the ball guys. and forget the bikinis. that should be easy. yeah right.
This should have a category called Gimme-a- break.
How many women I wonder actually watch this so called sport which is really a summer pastime game or something like that. But okay. You wanna think of it as a sport, fine. Doesn’t bother me. What does tho is the high highfalutin idea that people and by that term I mean men and you know I did, men shouldn’t be obsessed with the outfits she and the ladies wear.
Gimme-a-break.
Men aren’t going to watch this activity in the present numbers with the girls covered. To be critical of the lookers which means most men, is a denial of the only reason they do watch. Skimpy outfits. What the hell did this dingbat think brought this game, this pastime, this whatever you call it, what brought it to public attention?
Skimpy outfits on fit women.
So anyway, here’s the headline that greeted us on page 9 of today’s Mail.
We’re fed up with obsession about our skimpy outfits, say scantily-clad GB volleyball girls
By SPORTSMAIL REPORTER
Female beach volleyball players vowed that they would keep wearing their bikinis – despite admitting it was ‘upsetting’ that the sport was known only for skimpy outfits.
Zara Dampney and Shauna Mullin, who form part of Britain’s first ever Olympic beach volleyball team, said bikinis were still the best kit for the sport, despite rule changes which would allow them to cover up if they wished.
‘It’s perfect for our sport,’ Mullin, 27, said. ‘We play in hot countries and I can’t imagine wearing anything else on the sand. I will still be wearing my bikini.’
The players said their family and friends hated the fact that they were recognised only for wearing bikinis.
‘They find it really upsetting. They say to me, “How can they still be talking about your bikinis? Don’t they understand how hard you work?”
‘I try and tell them it will change eventually. But yes, it does upset them.’ Miss Mullin said that whenever the team played, most of the men who attended were there only to see girls in bikinis.
‘It doesn’t really bother me, but I hope they go home with a different attitude once they see us play,’ she said.
Players have been given the option of wearing shorts rather than bikinis during the Olympics. And with dismal weather forecast during the Games, they may well wish to change.
But Dampney, 26, said: ‘If it’s warm, we will be in our bikinis.’
Meanwhile, the teams have learned the identity of their first-round opponents for the tournament starting on July 28.
The women’s team of Dampney and Mullin have been drawn in Group F alongside Greta Cicolari and Marta Menegatti of Italy, Russia’s Ekaterina Khomyakova and Evgenia Ukolova, and Marie-Andree Lessard and Annie Martin of Canada.
OBSESSED WITH SKIMPY OUTFITS? YOU BETCHA.
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can’t wait for the olympic shooting event
OK, let me be honest. I think much of this story is farcical. But it’s still on the funny side cos it shows ya how phony some things can be and the lengths some folks will go to to get their way.
Now understand I do have sympathy with Mr. Mark. After all, who would want to share a bedroom with this fellow, olympic shooter Michael Diamond,
he’s the one on the left, instead of a room with a view like the one on the right. Her name is Lauryn. She’s Mr. Mark’s wife.
They are both sport shooters. But there’s a fly in the ointment.
Apparently the sexes have separate sleeping quarters and Mr. Mark is very unhappy about that. He wants to sleep with his wife. Now that’s a novel idea. How’s that work?
So he’s raising the issue of “discrimination” claiming that he knows there are “gays” sharing rooms. But it isn’t about sex, it’s to do with gender sleeping arrangements. It’s all a non issue really. And who cares anyway, beside he and the wife.
However, the wife did pose for a very raunchy magazine called Zoo, and she has a gun.
Now I ask you, what more could we ask for?
A woman in a bikini with a gun. Hey. How do we resist posting this story? Silly as it may be. Or not so silly if you happen to be Mr. Mark.
Shooter upset by Olympics sleeping plans
Radio AustraliaAustralian shooting champion Russell Mark says he is frustrated at being denied the opportunity to share a room at the Olympic village in London with his wife and fellow competitor Lauryn.
Lauryn Mark is also representing the Australian team in shooting, but husband Russell says officials have banned them from staying in the same accommodation.
“I’ve been trying to get a resolution on this for several months,” Mark told ABC Radio.
“You’d be pretty naive to think there aren’t other athletes in other females’ or males’ rooms at the Olympic Games.”
Mark has been told to share a room with fellow men’s shooter Michael Diamond.
But the six-time Olympian says he wants to maintain his usual routine ahead of the trap shooting competition in London.
“I just want to keep the same normal routine that I keep in every other competition that I compete in all over the world, and I guess so does Lauryn,” he said.
“I wouldn’t have thought this was going to be the issue that it has become because at the Commonwealth Games, before I was married to Lauryn, they let us room together.
“That didn’t seem to be an issue in 2002.”
Mark says that despite the request being investigated by a number of agencies, a final resolution is yet to be announced.
“Everyone’s blaming everyone else now,” he said.
“The Australian Shooting Association are blaming the Australian Olympic Committee. And the Australian Olympic Committee are saying we don’t have a problem with it if the Shooting Association can find you a room.
“I mean we put a man on the moon in 1969. Finding a room in the Olympic village can’t be that difficult, surely.”
The double-trap gold medallist at the 1996 Atlanta Games recently spoke out in support of athletes using sleeping tablets, after Mark himself admitted to using Temazepam in competition.
“I don’t want to be made a scapegoat because I’m publicly saying I’m using them and I know other people are,” Mark said.
“Don’t make us out to be criminals.”
And the 48-year-old says he is keen for his sleeping arrangement in London to be confirmed.
“I was told on Wednesday morning at 9:00am that my room-mate would be Michael Diamond,” Mark said.
“Nothing against Michael ... I’ve roomed with him before but he doesn’t wear a pink nightie the same way that Lauryn wears it.
“And he’s not as cuddly and he doesn’t shave enough and I’ve had enough of him.”
As long as I have spent an hour or more putting this together, Drew’d have done it in minutes, I should have sent it all to him. LOL.
I may as well add some stuff for those of you who are less refined and would prefer to see some arty stuff below the fold. Kind of stuff me and Drew wouldn’t bother looking at. I had no choice looking cos I had to post it all. Oh what sacrifices we make for BMEWS.
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Permalink • Friday - July 13, 2012
welcome to the olympic security training class. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Bungling Olympic security firm trains 3,300 teenagers to guard the Games in £284m debacle… but some of the A-Level students seem more keen to snooze and listen to their iPods
· Teen guards ‘behaving like children’ during training exercises
· Security firm G4S accused of jeopardising public safety
· Troops set to be drafted in to fill shortfall
· Theresa May said Logoc will impose penalties on the firm for the messBy STEPHEN WRIGHT and DAVID WILLIAMS
Sitting in the back row of a classroom, a young man listens to music through bright red headphones.
Next to him a woman is slumped asleep across her desk.
This was the scene at a recent training session for Olympics security guards recruited by G4S.
It was photographed by a fellow student appalled by the poor calibre of those hired by the beleaguered security firm.
The picture will offer fresh embarrassment for Olympic chiefs coming ont he day it emerged that hundreds of A-level students have been hired as front-line security guards at the Games.
They are among 3,300 teenagers recruited from colleges around Britain to help form a ring of steel at the venues.
Security experts expressed alarm that youngsters aged 18 and 19 had been entrusted with searching spectators and bags.
And some accused G4S, the private security firm, of jeopardising public safety by recruiting the students on £8.50 an hour to cut costs.
A whistleblower told the Mail: ‘Some of the people on that course you would not hire to empty a dustbin. You are talking about really poorly educated, slovenly yobs.
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Permalink • Monday - July 09, 2012
read it here. the racial crime of the century. yawn
If I went out looking for a boring post to annoy you with, I doubt I could have found one more boring then this one.
Posting the phone book might have more appeal I’ll warrant. So why the heck post this at all? Because. Because I want folks to see just how far this bullshit PC inquisition has taken us all. Or at least it has here in the UK. What mindless blather and forget freedom to insult someone in the heat of battle. OK so the battle was on a sports field but you know what I mean.
Take a look at this sorry assed high crime of the last two centuries. Down with John Terry. Where’s the rope?
Jeesh. What a bunch of nasty asses, apes and mangy dogs the thought and speech police are.
John Terry ‘shouted racist obscenities at Anton Ferdinand’England footballer John Terry called Anton Ferdinand a racist obscenity in response to taunts about his alleged affair with a team-mate’s ex-girlfriend, a court heard today.
By Telegraph reporters
The 31-year-old Chelsea defender allegedly called Ferdinand, who plays for Queens Park Rangers, a “f------ black c---”.
Terry is accused of a racially aggravated public order offence during a Premier League match on October 23 last year, which was broadcast to millions of people.
Appearing at Westminster Magistrates’ Court today, Terry sat in the dock wearing a light grey suit, white shirt and pink tie.
The court heard that Terry told Ferdinand to “f--- off” and also called him a “f------ k---head” as the pair exchanged insults.
Opening the prosecution today, Duncan Penny said: “The Crown alleges that the words he used demonstrated hostility based on Mr Ferdinand’s membership or presumed membership of a racial group.”
The court heard that Terry maintains he was only sarcastically repeating words that Ferdinand wrongly thought he had used.
Mr Penny said: “The Crown alleges that the defendant, most probably in response to physical gestures being made by Mr Ferdinand which the defendant understood to refer to the well-publicised allegation of an extra-marital affair with a team-mate’s wife, shouted at Mr Ferdinand.”
He went on: “The Crown’s case is that the words were abusive and insulting in a straightforward sense and that the term ‘f------ black c---’ was uttered as an abusive insult demonstrating hostility based on Mr Ferdinand’s membership of a racial group.
“They were uttered by the defendant in response to goading by Mr Ferdinand on the issue of his extra-marital affair, rather than by way of exaggerated and instant querying of a perceived false allegation.”
Y A W N
Oh come on. You aren’t even sleepy yet. Read some more of this garbage so you know what in time you’ll have in spades back home in the USA.
Unless it’s already that bad now. WTF is wrong with people?
Terry was allowed out of the dock into the well of the court to view footage of the alleged insult.
The case is being heard by Chief Magistrate Howard Riddle, and there is no jury.
Both television clips and unbroadcast footage of the incident, which would normally be used for training purposes, were shown to the court.
It is claimed that Ferdinand said something about “s----ing ya mate’s missus” and made fist gestures, before Terry responded.
The court was told that Chelsea team-mates Ashley Cole and John Mikel Obi were nearby when insults were traded, but they will not be called as witnesses as part of the prosecution case.
Terry said in a statement to the Football Association five days after the incident that he and Ferdinand had been exchanging “verbals” and he had made a gesture to imply Mr Ferdinand had bad breath.
He said: “We’re still having a, sort of, ding-dong, if you like. That’s when, as I said before, he said ‘black c---’.
“Now clearly, as I said before, I don’t think he’s calling me a black c---, but at the same time I take quite a strong offence.”
The England defender said he was not offended by the taunts about the alleged affair with Wayne Bridge’s ex-girlfriend, because “it’s not the first time I’ve heard it, so it’s with a pinch of salt a little bit now”.
Had enough? If not, there’s more HERE.
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a request to american bmews readers— GOT THE ANSWER AND, it’s a senior moment?
I wrote this post forgetting that I forgot to hold on to something called memory.
I really,really,really don’t remember that position.
Oh dear.
To quote the late and great Ed. G. Robinson in one of his 30’s movies.
“Mother of Mercy. Is this the end of Rico?”
Did I somehow lose the plot line? Or, have they changed position names since I stopped following football?
Sometime last week I happened to see an article in the Telegraph which you may already know is a Brit newspaper. In that article about a young player, he was described as being the “Cornerback.”
So, I wrote a letter to the paper telling them I was an American and in all my time I did not ever hear that term used as Quarterback was the correct term.
Well .... Maybe Not ?????????
Here was the answer I got back just minutes ago.
I am writing in response to your email concerning Justin Combs’s recruitment to UCLA.
Cornerback is the position Justin will play for the college football team. I have attached the Wikipedia entry for the position in defence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerback
I hope this offers some explanation to you.
Yours sincerely,
Andy King
Editorial Information Executive
Okay hang on a minute. I read something wrong and re-read the Wikipedia entry. BUT .... I am still trying to work this one out because honestly, I never heard the word or term “Cornerback” before the article I questioned.
Cornerback?
Really?
When?
Was it always that?
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Britain’s best female diver for more than 20 years, and eye candy too.
ok before getting involved in stuff.
Tech question.
Is Fiber Optic meant only for fast uploads and downloads when used in computers? ? I know what it is, but don’t really see any more speed with page openings then I had before. Cos there sure isn’t a huge difference on those. My downloads were always fast anyway. Never had a problem there. But I can see a vast difference when uploading photos and other files.
Sean Penn still in the news btw. Yeah. Fancies himself a real force in the political world I guess. Going hither and yon dispensing advice on how countries should behave if only they’d listen to him. Wonder how soon he’ll get around to demanding that the USA give the Southwest and west back to Mexico.
Oh right. Been away so long I forgot. SE HABLA ESPAÑOL?
Alright, the purpose of this post is a young lady, pictured , who will be on the UK’s Olympic diving team and I was taken with her photo I saw in the paper last week. I thought to myself, self .... look at this. Real honest to gosh eye candy that is natural. No overdone make up, no exaggerated boobs, not a movie star or a model with ppl trailing her making sure every hair is in place. Just plain darn pretty. And athletic. So I thought I’d post her as human interest and eye candy.
I’ve read only a little about her lately, and she just seems like a nice person and not much taken with herself. Kinda nice if I have that right. Sure might make a change from all the self important celebs we hear about.
Duty calls: diver’s soldier boyfriend will miss medal bid
Miranda Bryant
Team GB diver Tonia Couch today revealed that her Royal Marine boyfriend is serving in Afghanistan so he cannot be poolside to cheer her on as she goes for gold in London.
Karl Thurgood, 23, on his third tour of the war-torn country, hopes to be back for part of the Games but has no tickets because he is not sure of the date of his return from Lashkar Gar.
Couch, also 23, turned in the best performance by a British woman diver in 20 years at the World Championships in 2009, when she came eighth in the individual event.
At the Beijing Games the year before, she finished eighth in the 10-metre individual and synchronised events.
She and synchronised diving partner Sarah Barrow, now training in Southend with the rest of the team, narrowly missed out on bronze at the World Championships in July.
Couch, who met her boyfriend in her home town of Plymouth when they were 16, said: “I worry about him and miss him but he’s very supportive of my sport.”
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