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The road to Olympic history isn’t just paved with sweat and tears.
Sometimes it’s covered with blood and bandages. Ouch!

Hendazi Makhveyenia of Belarus lies injured during a weightlifting event.

Ecuador’s judo team member Roberto Ibanez is bloody hot.

A Brazilian gymnast removes a blister from her hand.

Yang Xiuli bites her gold medal
I don´t want to see how the [...]

A Cuban taekwondo athlete and his coach were banned for life after Angel Matos kicked the referee in the face following his bronze-medal match disqualification.

Cuban coach Leudis Gonzalez offered no apology for Matos’ actions during the men’s over-80 kg (176 pounds) match.
Matos was winning 3-2, with 1:02 in the second round, when he fell to [...]

1st: missing father
During Michael Phelps’ races, camera shots of his mother Debbie were a fixture on NBC. The network showed endless replays of her falling to her seat after that memorable 100 butterfly finish. And after her son won his eighth gold medal, Debbie was all over NBC getting interviewed. Michael’s sisters, Hilary and Whitney [...]

Obesity-peddling restaurant is the athlete’s choice, apparently

Monday 18th August, 2008: Humongous gentleman Michael Phelps helps himself to a McDonalds on the Olympic Green in front of a huge press entourage. This comes shortly after we are told that that the swimmer eats the calorie equivalent of 22 Big Macs a day.

Sunday 17th August, 2008: After [...]

Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian caused a scandal at the Beijing Games when he angrily threw his bronze medal onto the ground in protest of what he termed a “corrupt” system.
The world-class wrestler, who won silver at the Athens Olympics, was hoping for gold in Beijing. “I don’t care about this medal. I wanted gold,” he [...]

Mark Spitz’s iconic performance was surpassed by a swimmer fitting of this generation: a 23-year-old from Baltimore who loves hip-hop music, texting with his buddies and wearing his cap backward.
“Everything was accomplished,” he said. “I will have the medals forever.”
Phelps sure did his part to win No. 8, eclipsing Mark Spitz’s seven-gold performance at the [...]

After completing a dive, competitors swim to a ladder, climb out of the pool and head immediately to a bank of showers that sit adjacent to the diving boards. Then, in full view of the crowd and NBC cameras, they shower off. Divers keep their suits on, of course, usually appearing only to rinse off [...]

The Sydney Olympics ran out. Athens doubled the number. So organisers of the Beijing Games are hoping 100,000 condoms will satisfy the needs of Olympic athletes.
While sex is not an Olympic sport it is expected to be an activity in the Beijing village housing 10,500 athletes, all of whom are in great shape and with [...]

Style and scoring ability.
This is why Kobe Bryant is the greatest sports icon in China; not Yao Ming, not Yi Jianlian, not even groundbreaking hurdle-champion Liu Xiang.
This was the prevailing sentiment amongst those polled in the sold-out Qizhong Arena in Shanghai that was painted with 24s and 8s.
Since the arrival,

During his freetime,
Kobe being mobbed by [...]

The pictures of Michael Phelps and Garrett Weber-Gale celebrating their improbable win in the 4×100 freestyle relay were splashed across newspapers and websites around the world yesterday. But there was somebody conspicuous in his absence from all the immediate reaction shots.
Where was Cullen Jones? The third swimmer in the United States’ world record setting 4×100 [...]