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            <title>Boy Olympics 2: The Pole Vault</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Melissa)</author>
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            <title>QotD: Lending a Helping Hand</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Majicke)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 11:13:35 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have you ever volunteered for something? If so, what?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;
 I volunteer quite a bit actually! Not as much as I&amp;#39;s like - I have to earn a living too!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My major effort is as a Joey Scout leader. In other words I entertain 7 year olds for 1 hour a week and get them interested in Scouting. I also get an excellent excuse to do fun science experiments and craft activities...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I suppose the most interesting thing I volunteered for was the Sydney Olympics in 2000. The volunteer applications closed about a year before the games and you could nominate what areas you wanted to work in. I nominated as a help desk operator as I&amp;#39;d had experience in that area. Unfortunately, I never made it to the Olympics - not even as a spectator. My son was born less than 2 weeks before they started and I had my hands full!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe next time they are in Australia?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Best. Meeting. Ever.</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Letitia &amp; Shane)</author>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:44:46 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Last Monday, we had an all-staff meeting at work to learn about our company&amp;#39;s role in the &lt;a class=&quot;snap_shots&quot; href=&quot;http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/-/32678/q0c15c/index.html&quot;&gt;2010 Winter Olympics&lt;/a&gt; in Vancouver.&amp;#160; It ended up being the greatest all-staff meeting in history!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We
all shuffled into the lunch area at 10:00 a.m. to find a breakfast
buffet offering pastries, mini-quiche, bagels with a variety of
toppings (including cream cheese and &lt;a class=&quot;snap_shots&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lox&quot;&gt;lox&lt;/a&gt;),
yogurt with granola, and juices.&amp;#160; There were also Marketing folks
handing out high-quality Olympic Canada scarves and Olympic pins to
each employee.&amp;#160; We loitered and chatted with each other until 11:00
a.m., at which time we were directed into the common area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The
common area was set up to host a press conference, complete with a
podium, cameras, microphones, the whole deal.&amp;#160; When the press
conference began, we all looked on as our president announced a
partnership between Port Metro Vancouver and the 2010 Olympics.&amp;#160; The
Olympic organization is going to use our building as the Media Center
during the Olympics.&amp;#160; After that announcement, Canadian Olympic athlete
&lt;a class=&quot;snap_shots&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=61624/bio/index.html&quot;&gt;Kyle Hamilton&lt;/a&gt;
spoke about the importance of Vancouver hosting the Olympics.&amp;#160; Kyle was
part of the gold-medal-winning Men&amp;#39;s Eight rowing team in Beijing.&amp;#160; At
6&amp;#39;6&amp;quot;, he&amp;#39;s pretty tall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Kyle&amp;#39;s talk, the meeting was
wrapped up with a video.&amp;#160; This video involved the three Olympic
mascots, along with our mascot, Salty Sam, doing crazy mascot stuff out
on a boat in the harbour.&amp;#160; As the video progressed, the mascots got
closer to our office, making their way into our lobby and then finally
opening our office door.&amp;#160; The video ended, and in came the Olympic
mascots!&amp;#160; It was wonderful!&amp;#160; The rest of the meeting was spent with
staff getting their pictures taken with Kyle and with the mascots (sans
Salty Sam).&amp;#160; I was able to build up the courage to get a picture taken
with my favorite mascot, Quatchi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the way, work hasn&amp;#39;t decided
what is going to happen with employees during the Olympics.&amp;#160; But rumor
has it that because of the additional security, all non-essential
employees (definitely me) would get two weeks off.&amp;#160; Sounds great... but
we&amp;#39;ll see.&lt;br /&gt;
    
    
    

    
    
    
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            <title>Best. Meeting. Ever.</title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 04:28:43 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Last Monday, we had an all-staff meeting at work to learn about our company&amp;#39;s role in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/-/32678/q0c15c/index.html&quot;&gt;2010 Winter Olympics&lt;/a&gt; in Vancouver.&amp;#160; It ended up being the greatest all-staff meeting in history!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all shuffled into the lunch area at 10:00 a.m. to find a breakfast buffet offering pastries, mini-quiche, bagels with a variety of toppings (including cream cheese and &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lox&quot;&gt;lox&lt;/a&gt;), yogurt with granola, and juices.&amp;#160; There were also Marketing folks handing out high-quality Olympic Canada scarves and Olympic pins to each employee.&amp;#160; We loitered and chatted with each other until 11:00 a.m., at which time we were directed into the common area.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The common area was set up to host a press conference, complete with a podium, cameras, microphones, the whole deal.&amp;#160; When the press conference began, we all looked on as our president announced a partnership between Port Metro Vancouver and the 2010 Olympics.&amp;#160; The Olympic organization is going to use our building as the Media Center during the Olympics.&amp;#160; After that announcement, Canadian Olympic athlete &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=61624/bio/index.html&quot;&gt;Kyle Hamilton&lt;/a&gt; spoke about the importance of Vancouver hosting the Olympics.&amp;#160; Kyle was part of the gold-medal-winning Men&amp;#39;s Eight rowing team in Beijing.&amp;#160; At 6&amp;#39;6&amp;quot;, he&amp;#39;s pretty damn tall.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After Kyle&amp;#39;s talk, the meeting was wrapped up with a video.&amp;#160; This video involved the three Olympic mascots, along with our mascot, Salty Sam, doing crazy mascot shit out on a boat in the harbour.&amp;#160; As the video progressed, the mascots got closer to our office, making their way into our lobby and then finally opening our office door.&amp;#160; The video ended, and in came the Olympic mascots!&amp;#160; It was wonderful!&amp;#160; The rest of the meeting was spent with staff getting their pictures taken with Kyle and with the mascots (sans Salty Sam).&amp;#160; I was able to build up the courage to get a picture taken with my favorite mascot, Quatchi.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By the way, work hasn&amp;#39;t decided what is going to happen with employees during the Olympics.&amp;#160; But rumor has it that because of the additional security, all non-essential employees (definitely me) would get two weeks off.&amp;#160; Sounds great... but we&amp;#39;ll see.&lt;br /&gt;
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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            <title>So, China Wins Again</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(janghwa_hongryeon)</author>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:04:42 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;Despite committing an error almost DPRK-esque in magnitude, China will get to keep their team gold. What does this mean for Chinese gymnastics and gymnastics in general?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.) China will continue falsifying ages. It&amp;#39;s naive to think otherwise. They&amp;#39;re just going to be much more careful about it. Are they going to risk another He Kexin and fake the documents of another little prodigy and attempt to erase all articles referring to her as being age-ineligible for the Games mere months before the Olympics? Well, I don&amp;#39;t know. That was a huge risk to take. Not only did it pay off for them, but they got away with it. If nothing else, they&amp;#39;re no longer going to put important documents on the Internet anymore.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2.) China will now be put under a microscope. While I&amp;#39;m going to say that any articles about rising stars that end up on the Internet will not have any references to age, people will be keeping caches of any and all articles. Speculation will continually follow them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3.) The FIG and IOC, long regarded as incompetent, have lost pretty much all credibility. This whole &amp;quot;investigation&amp;quot; was just a dog-and-pony show to put up the pretense that they&amp;#39;re doing something and that they do not condone the cheating. They had the same evidence before the Olympics as they did when they started this whole thing. They just hoped that, like all news stories, it would soon fade away for the next big thing. Unfortunately for them, the only way that would have happened is if any team, not necessarily the USA, but any team had won over China. But China won and when a team that most people believe is cheating wins, those people want something done about it. What I wonder is what this will do to Grandi&amp;#39;s bid to raise the age limit. When they refuse to enforce the age limit in place now, it&amp;#39;s stupid and unfair to impose a higher limit.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Knowing that this decision will be unpopular, the FIG and IOC brought in Yang Yun and Dong Fangxiao from the 2000 Sydney Games. Yang famously said she was just 14 in a documentary aired on state-run television and Dong showed up as a worker at the 2008 Games with papers that suggested she would have been ineligible for Sydney, not to mention that her own blog also supported that. I highly doubt it&amp;#39;s still up on her blog, though.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;However, the statute of limitations for medal revocation is almost up. And what would be the point now? Some have suggested that China is barred from the 2010 Worlds (being barred from London 2009 isn&amp;#39;t much of a punishment because the National Games are also around that time and China never sends their A-listers to the Worlds vs. the National Games). Given the rules in gymnastics, not only would China miss a major competition, but they wouldn&amp;#39;t get to qualify for the Olympics. Since the top 24 teams in 2010 get to go onto 2011 and those 12 teams qualify a full team to the Olympics (that is, if I have that right).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But you want my prediction on the absolute outcome of everything? Nothing. Absolutely nothing will happen.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>OMFG. SHO.</title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:34:32 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;LMAO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I JUST WATCHED HIS BEIJING VIDEO.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s kinda weird &lt;strong&gt;*for me* &lt;/strong&gt;to see your idol go crazy over another person &lt;strong&gt;XDDD~&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I admire Usain Bolt now.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thanks to him.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That chipmunk-newscaster...&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>AKB48 Takes Part in Tokyo 2016 Olympic Bid</title>
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Chris)</author>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:23:28 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;I was setting up my new laptop that I purchased especially for my upcoming trip to Japan.&amp;#160; When setting my Google news preferences I decided to put Morning Musume in as a keyword.&amp;#160; But nothing came up :(.&amp;#160; So I decided to put AKB48 in, and I found &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamesbids.com/eng/olympic_bids/tokyo_2016/1216133719.html&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;#160; Here is the text from GamesBids.com...&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 1.56em&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Tokyo Exercise&amp;quot; Campaign Boost For 2016 Olympic Games&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tokyo 2016 launched its &amp;quot;Tokyo Exercise&amp;quot; campaign Friday to promote the concept of healthy living and encourage participation in sport for residents of the city. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tokyo Governor Ishihara said at a press conference for the launch, &amp;quot;Tokyo has created a new exercise that will benefit people of all generations as well as support our effort to host the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2016&amp;quot;. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;At the press conference five members of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and 60-year-old manga artist Yoshikazu Ebisu performed the dance-style exercise, which comprises active and sitting versions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;According to Tokyo 2016 the active version, which is targeted at young people who love to dance, can be performed as a warm-up exercise before sports activities at school or in the workplace. The sitting version is for people of all ages including those with chronic afflictions, stiff shoulders or weak backs, to encourage them to exercise while sitting at work or at home.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Tokyo Exercise&amp;quot; reportedly &amp;quot;captures the essence of both the Tokyo 2016&amp;#39;s Games Plan and the Musubi Promise, which aims to unite youth with sport&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Just another example of&amp;#160;AKB48 becoming a major player in the J-music industry.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;CK in California&amp;#160;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://ckhp.vox.com/library/post/akb48-takes-part-in-tokyo-2016-olympic-bid.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments&quot;&gt;Read and post comments&lt;/a&gt;   |   
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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Melissa)</author>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 06:53:42 +0000</pubDate>         
            
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 &lt;div&gt;Sebastian and Jude, inspired by the Olympics, decided to make medals and stage their own Olympics. The first round of events included discus, shot put and javelin, cycling (both long distance and sprint) and running sprints.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Error: rendering enclosure $VAR1 = {
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Even Zac participated in some of the throwing and running events (we didn&amp;#39;t let him near a stick throwing though) but preferred to have a swing while the bigger boys did their cycling.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual, the high point of the day was the medal ceremony - everyone got a medal for something!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!-- Error: rendering enclosure $VAR1 = {
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            <title>Sliced Bread, Powdered Milk and 10 Chipotle Burritos</title>
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;&quot;&gt;Hey Listers,&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;It’s been a while. Hope you are still listing! Sure looks
like you are. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/&quot;&gt;LAL&lt;/a&gt; has over 14,500
lists now! A lot has happened since I wrote you last:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;The new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/13105/Movies/Indiana+Jones+Movies+in+Order.aspx&quot;&gt;Indiana
Jones&lt;/a&gt; premiered and bombed. Well critically bombed at least; box-office
numbers did okay despite the horrid reviews and me walking out of the theater
half-way through; did you know you can’t get refunds for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/8844/Movies/Terrible+Bad+Sadly+Worst+Movies+of+AllTime.aspx&quot;&gt;movies
utterly sucking&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Seems like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/8935/Movies/Top+10+Best+Harrison+Ford+Characters.aspx&quot;&gt;Harrison
Ford&lt;/a&gt; has been around longer than &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/11265/Food++Dining/Best+Sandwiches.aspx&quot;&gt;sliced
bread&lt;/a&gt; doesn’t it? Ford’s first role as a bellhop in “&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/14614/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;Dead
Heat on a Merry-Go-Round&lt;/a&gt;,” was the same year &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;the Beatles’ John Lennon &lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;made the comment in an interview published in &lt;em style=&quot;&quot;&gt;The London Evening Standard&lt;/em&gt;, &amp;quot;We&amp;#39;re
more popular than Jesus now.” Speaking of more popular than Jesus, did you know
Ford had roles in many of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/6893/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;biggest
box-office hits of all time&lt;/a&gt;, though his role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
(as Elliot&amp;#39;s school principal) was deleted from the final cut of the film. It’s
shocking that he is only #75 on the list of&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/12362/Movies/Most+Movie+and+TV+Appearances.aspx&quot;&gt;
Top 100 Actors and Actresses with the Most Movie and TV Appearances&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Other debuts include new &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/13896/Technology/Top+10+Reasons+the+New+iPhone+3G+Still+Sucks.aspx&quot;&gt;iPhone
3G. It still sucks!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Big Brown made his bid at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/13219/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;Triple
Crown of horse racing only to come up short in the final leg&lt;/a&gt;. No pun
intended. But speaking of slipping up:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/14473/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;Sarah
Palin&lt;/a&gt; tripped and fell &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/14616/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;bum&lt;/a&gt;-backwards
into the Republican VP seat, political spotlight and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/14615/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;harsh
media criticisms&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;span style=&quot;color: maroon;&quot;&gt;Caution&lt;/span&gt;: Alaskan ice
slippery when wet). &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;As the Presidential election gets closer, more and more
celebrities are choosing sides of the aisle. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/11772/Politics/Celebrity+Democrats.aspx&quot;&gt;Hollywood
is known to be left-leaning&lt;/a&gt;, but there are some &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/14272/Politics/Celebrities+Supporting+John+McCain.aspx&quot;&gt;celebs
openly backing McCain&lt;/a&gt; as well on the other side of the aisle.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;And how about Michael Phelps?! Not his political views; and
actually NOT the 8 gold medals either, because that’s nothing compared to his
daily food intake. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/14270/Sports++Recreation/Michael+Phelps+Daily+Food+Intake+12000+Calories+is+Equal+to.aspx&quot;&gt;12,000
calories! Do you know what that is equal to?&lt;/a&gt; Have you ever tried to eat two
Chipotle burritos? I have and I cannot even imagine ten! I have a better chance
at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/7737/Sports++Recreation/From+Athens+to+London+Olympic+Games+Locations.aspx&quot;&gt;London
gold&lt;/a&gt; in the 200-free.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;…Anyway, I hope you &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/CreateaList/tabid/53/Default.aspx?wiki=1&quot;&gt;keep
listing&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/118/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;adding
to those wiki lists&lt;/a&gt;, and continually checking back with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/&quot;&gt;ListAfterList&lt;/a&gt; as it becomes &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/14606/Music/Top+25+Worst+Song+Titles+Ever.aspx&quot;&gt;the
biggest thing since powdered milk&lt;/a&gt;. Or is it “biggest since sliced bread”
and “longer than powdered milk”? Powdered milk was first spotted by Marco Polo
in Mongolia
in 1275; that’s not that long is it? Or very big? Wait, what does powdered milk
have to do with anything?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Nevermind that, here is one final, actually important
question: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/12036/Jobs++Careers/Options+You+Have+if+Your+Bosses+Toupee+Falls+on+the+Floor.aspx&quot;&gt;What
are the options you have if your boss’s toupee falls on the floor?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;&quot;&gt;Lists Hidden in this
Newsletter &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;The links above are attached to these lists:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/&quot;&gt;ListAfterList.com
- Home Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/13105/Movies/Indiana+Jones+Movies+in+Order.aspx&quot;&gt;Indiana
Jones Movies in Order&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/8844/Movies/Terrible+Bad+Sadly+Worst+Movies+of+AllTime.aspx&quot;&gt;Terrible,
Bad, Worst Movies of All Time&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/8935/Movies/Top+10+Best+Harrison+Ford+Characters.aspx&quot;&gt;Top
10 Best Harrison Ford Characters&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/11265/Food++Dining/Best+Sandwiches.aspx&quot;&gt;Best
Sandwiches&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/14614/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;Harrison
Ford Films and TV Appearances&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/Listof/tabid/57/ListID/6893/Default.aspx&quot;&gt;Biggest
Box-Office Opening Weekends of All-Time&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/12362/Movies/Most+Movie+and+TV+Appearances.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;Top 100 Actors and Actresses with the Most
Movie and TV Appearances&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.listafterlist.com/tabid/57/listid/13896/Technology/Top+10+Reasons+the+New+iPhone+3G+Still+Sucks.aspx&quot;&gt;Top
10 Reasons the New iPhone 3G Still Sucks&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Symbol;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;&quot;&gt;·&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160;
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That Came Up Short in Triple Crown&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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            <author>nobody@vox.com(Molly)</author>
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            <description>    &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Summer is coming to an end... Show us what you enjoyed the most this summer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    

    
    
    
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 &lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold;&quot;&gt;Beer Olympics!&lt;/span&gt; &amp;#160;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kendra and I had this radical idea one night. &amp;#160;Our friends came over for an afternoon of friendly beer-game competition in order to celebrate the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. &amp;#160;It was fabulous! &amp;#160;We even ended up with randos stopping by to compete in our games.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had flippy cup teams, row the boat, beer darts, beer pong...the list goes on...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Needless to say, it was fun for all!&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Before the Olympics I liked gymnastics and i loved watching the amazing things people can do.I had heard of Shawn Johnson when she had won the World Championships yet i was really going through a hard time and really never got to see the amazing things she can do and has done both as an athlete &lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;and as a persone. Thus when the olympics came around and i heard that name again. I imediatly started researching her leraning slowly more and more about her. Please dont take it as stalking her but i was amased at how a persone so young so small could do such big things. I really conected with her ways and cheard her on throughout the olympics. Waiting for that shinig gold metal she deserved. When she got the gold i celebrated. I remember one of my friends coming up to me and saying you look really happy? I answerd Shawn got gold with a big smile on my face. So when the olympics were over i have kept constan trak of this amazing persons achivements. Now sitting hear a week after being dignosed with High blode pressure at the age of 16. I have discoveres my motivational heroe the one i feel will guide me to getting better. The girl who i belive will get everything she puts her mind to. So I would like to thank shawn for being my hero, wanting it or not. I hope you have a great life infront of you and i hope to some day meet you. Always will be a fan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brian &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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 &lt;div&gt;I admit to being a complete Olympics junkie.&amp;#160; I found myself coming up with reasons to have lunch at home so I could watch team handball on channels I&amp;#39;d never heard of before or since the Games.&amp;#160; Here are some of the highlights which include a Paraguayan, some Brasilians, a Rooskie, our Prez perving, a dislocated elbow, and the lock for Athlete of the Year 2008.&amp;#160; What&amp;#39;s more exciting than rooting against entire countries, watching people rise to the challenge on the largest stage in the world,&amp;#160; seeing them lose a sure-thing medal by stumbling over a hurdle...what a great rollercoaster of emotions.&amp;#160;&amp;#160; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you have the stomach for it, watch the unfortunate injury to our Hungarian friend.&amp;#160; I can&amp;#39;t even say for sure if I embedded the right video because I have thing about elbow and knee injuries.&amp;#160; Hey, we all have our things.
    
    
    

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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;ve gone MIA during the olympics because it was too darn good to turn away. The Opening Ceremony was breathtaking, I spent the night going &amp;quot;Oooh... aahh... wooo.... woah... wow!&amp;quot; at everything, from the amazing drummers to the incredible fireworks. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There was controversy blown out of proportion when China let the world know the little girl was lip-synching. Today Tonight jumped onto the story like an old salivating sleazy guy with an Asian fetish, saying that it was the &amp;quot;Chinese way&amp;quot; to fake it. Woah! Sweeping statement that&amp;#39;s RACIST and untrue! I hate Today Tonight and its racist writers. I thought it was ironic, especially since during the Sydney Opening Ceremony, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra was dubbed too... by the MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Hypocrisy anyone? Even former prime minister Paul Keating said the media coverage of the Beijing Olympic games was condescending and elitist. Man, I love you Mr Keating, say it like it is!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I saw bits of the French coverage of the Olympics and it was so different. It was accepting, wonderful and they spent more time on the Olympics rather than talking about human rights, pollution and controversy. Seriously it&amp;#39;s the OLYMPICS!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was very proud when Melissa Wu won silver in diving. Represent! Of course congratulations go to China for absolutely destroying the competition. 51 gold medals? Gee wizz! Congrats to the US too for having the most overall medals. And congrats to Australia for doing a great job! People often forget we&amp;#39;re a small country with a small population, to have that kind of medal tally is a real triumph.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Despite the terrible Channel 7 media coverage, the Olympics was great! I had a ball watching it! I can&amp;#39;t wait for the next games!&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;If you were a man watching the Olympics, and fell under the hypnotic spell of the NBC broadcasters, you know the Olympics are all about watching the women of beach volleyball in their skimpy bikinis.&amp;#160; (If you are a woman, I suppose&amp;#160;it must have been about divers and water polo players in their tiny speedos.)&amp;#160; I am stronger than that, though.&amp;#160; I know the Olympics are really about watching the women of many different sports, not just beach volleyball, and there are lots of better looking women than Kerri Walsh out there.&amp;#160; Here are my favorites:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#3.&amp;#160; The Norwegian womens&amp;#39; handball team&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OK, maybe they weren&amp;#39;t all models, but compared to all the other soccer, field hockey, softball and water polo teams in Beijing, this had to be the best-looking team in action.&amp;#160; And they can play, too -- they&amp;#160;won the gold medal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;#2.&amp;#160; Italian volleyball player Francesca Piccinini&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Best name, too.&amp;#160; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.francescapiccinini.com/sito/home.asp?lang=IT&quot;&gt;Funny official web site&lt;/a&gt; with interactive menu.&amp;#160; And I swear I didn&amp;#39;t even know about all the naked pictures of her that are on the Internets.&amp;#160; Well, after all, she is Italian.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;#1.&amp;#160; US hurdler Lolo Jones&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OK, she could have been one of my big losers, too, after she choked in the finals with a big lead, heading for a gold medal with one hurdle to go.&amp;#160; But she&amp;#39;s beautiful, she has a great story, and her web site is called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.runlolorun.com/&quot;&gt;RunLoloRun.com&lt;/a&gt; and has an outstanding version of Whatever Lola Wants as background music.&amp;#160; And look how sad she was after she lost...&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:10:38 +0000</pubDate>         
            
            <description>    &lt;p&gt;It&amp;#39;s not too late to report on the Olympics, is it?&amp;#160; It took a while to get over the devastating&amp;#160;defeat of&amp;#160;USA Softball (maybe the one sport I actually didn&amp;#39;t watch).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First up, my list of the biggest losers of Beijing:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#3.&amp;#160; French swimmer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=910/bio/index.html&quot;&gt;Alain Bernard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;OK, the guy won the gold in the 100m freestyle.&amp;#160; But before that happened, he declared that the French 4x100 relay team would &amp;quot;crush&amp;quot; the Americans.&amp;#160; Then, in the final, he anchored the race, heading into the final 50 yards with a massive lead over USA.&amp;#160; And, of course, he then totally choked and let Jason Lezak catch him (maybe you remember seeing Michael Phelps celebrating...&amp;#160; like about 300 times in the following 2 weeks.)&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;#2.&amp;#160; American gymnast &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbcolympics.com/athletes/athlete=622/bio/index.html&quot;&gt;Alicia Sacramone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, she did earn a little more respect from me when she appeared at Fenway Park this week, but she still goes down as a big loser in my book.&amp;#160; With the US gymnastics team leading by a decent amount through 2 events, Sacramone stepped up to the balance beam and, bam, she fell off before she&amp;#39;d even gotten on.&amp;#160; Pretty bad, but the US still had a chance at gold going into the floor exercise.&amp;#160; Up comes Sacramone again, with a chance to redeem herself.&amp;#160; Instead, she falls on her ass (literally), and the US, with the 2 best female gymnasts, only manages a silver medal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;#1.&amp;#160; American pole vaulter &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jenniferstuczynski.com/&quot;&gt;Jenn Stuczynski&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#39;s coach&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jenn Stuczynski won the silver medal in pole vault.&amp;#160; The only person who beat her was the greatest female pole vaulter of all time and world-record holder from Russia.&amp;#160; Stuczynski is a big winner, except in her choice of coach.&amp;#160; After she finished, NBC played the &amp;quot;pep talk&amp;quot; from her coach.&amp;#160; He ripped her for not having it that day, and couldn&amp;#39;t have seemed more disappointed by winning silver, barely even looking at her.&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; He came out looking like a total dick, and wins my biggest loser of the Olympics award.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nbcolympics.com/video/player.html?assetid=0818_hd_atw_hl_l1722&amp;amp;channelcode=sportat&quot;&gt;Check it out&amp;#160;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <description>    &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m slow with this. Anyway at the recent Olympics in Beijing, the women&amp;#39;s ping pong team won ourselves a silver. When it came to the individuals&amp;#39; event though, noone managed to push beyond the semis, not even our women paddlers who were in the top 10 of the world rankings. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/372602/1/.html&quot;&gt;drama&lt;/a&gt; however belonged to the male paddlers, in particular, our top-ranked fella, Gao Ning.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Local media, and the public,&amp;#160;went to town with how he lost his match&amp;#160;to some fella a number of ranks below him, and how he lost without a coach by his side. The dude was crying after the game and I felt sorry for him. Apparently his coach, Liu Guodong,&amp;#160;said that he&amp;#39;d be there but he went to oversee one of the female paddler&amp;#39;s game instead and didn&amp;#39;t come back because the game ran late. And the team manager, Antony Lee,&amp;#160;didn&amp;#39;t make any contingencies for a spare coach to be present.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The association&amp;#39;s newly elected president, Mdm Lee Bee Wah, went ballistic upon finding out that this was merely the tip of the iceberg. Apparently Liu had always given preference to the womens&amp;#39; team, because their medal chances are better than the men&amp;#39;s so Gao&amp;#39;s training has never been optimum which is a shame for our top male paddler.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#39;t totally agree with public sentiment telling Gao to stop complaining and that he should have had the mental capacity to battle. Yes, you need mental fortitude in sports but if you&amp;#39;ve ever&amp;#160;played competitively, I think you&amp;#39;d appreciate as well how a coach doesn&amp;#39;t just prepare you for the day you fight, but being alongside you to&amp;#160;provide guidance and encouragement. Especially, when&amp;#160;the heat of battle can cloud emotions and judgements, it&amp;#39;s important to have someone on the side to make sure you&amp;#39;re on track. Anyway, noone&amp;#160;fights a battle alone.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Obviously,&amp;#160;all the frustration&amp;#160;leading up to the Olympics was probably boiling within the young man and when it came to the match he&amp;#39;d been training 4 years for, to be abandoned by the person hired&amp;#160;and entrusted to make sure you do your best, at the last moment, was the final straw. How many of you would like to be in&amp;#160;his shoes?&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The issue&amp;#39;s been so-called resolve right now but it&amp;#39;s disturbing how shallow the people who&amp;#39;ve been brought in to improve our sportsmen are. If all they care about are the medals regardless of development, then we&amp;#39;re going to lose out in the long run and will always rely on mercenaries won&amp;#39;t we? I can&amp;#39;t blame him for his stand as I&amp;#39;d think he&amp;#39;s being judged on performances too. But there&amp;#39;s a fundamental problem in how we always put winners on pedestals and forget about everyone else who gave their blood, sweat and tears for the cause but didn&amp;#39;t make the mark. That probably won&amp;#39;t change for another 2-3 generations probably but well, I hope it does change.&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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 &lt;div&gt;At my gym there is a pool. The pool is not a small pool, but it&amp;#39;s certainly not of Olympic size either. I use the pool at least twice a week, but it was this morning that I started realising some unspoken Pool Politics going on as to who swims where.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At one point, I counted ten people in the pool: on the far side by the steps was a disabled boy and his father; a little further in was a collection of other people, including someone I can only describe as a man in a woman&amp;#39;s swimming costume and an old lady who had back-combed all of her hair away from her neck in order to allow her to only practise her back-stroke.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nearer to me was an old lady (yes, most users of this spa are old) wearing her glasses, then a younger lady with goggles and a swimming cap, who was apparently practising her best Becky Addlington impression. Of course, such strenuous swimming techniques induce quite a splash, much to the disgust of the lady in glasses, who made no attempts to hide her grimace every time Becky Addlington swam past. I threw a few amused glances her way, and she seemed to respond in mutual disdain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, in the middle lanes of the pool, a couple decided it was necessary to stop swimming, but to stand still thus allowing absolutely no body to use those two lanes whilst they were resting. Why? Because they&amp;#39;re idiots. This rift forced the grimacing woman to swim closer to the wall, pushing Addlington further towards me, and leaving me scraping against the side of the pool with no where to escape to. This did not bode well with me, and I found great satisfaction in &amp;#39;accidently&amp;#39; splashing Addlington everytime she came up for air. Call me childish if you will, but I&amp;#39;d say it was more primal: I was being backed into a corner by someone trying to out-do my breast stroke, what do you expect? I soon realised my splashing was travelling a little further than I intended, and that the grimacing woman had now turned her focus onto &lt;em&gt;me&lt;/em&gt; every time I swam past. Needless to say, the splashing stopped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Minutes passed, everyone too arrogant to move or leave the pool - not to mention too politically correct to ask the disabled boy and his father to move on if they weren&amp;#39;t intending on actually swimming in the two lanes they were taking up. Finally, the man/woman left the pool, with an effeminate flick of the wrist as she climbed the steps onto dry land. Shortly after, I enjoyed watching Becky Addlington call it a day and get out. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alas, my joy was short-lived, as the grimacing woman took the opportunity of an empty lane next to me to move in for her attack. Too scared to face her, I left the pool. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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