who's really on top?
I guess in China they’re declaring themselves the Olympic winners because they kicked ass in Gold Medals (4th grade gymnasts included). Yahoo adds to the controversy by showing the U.S. as number 2 in medals on every site but the U.S. Yahoo’s site. Appeasing the world much….Yahoo?
Yahoo Mexico arranges medals by the amount of Gold won
http://mx.sports.yahoo.com/china2008/medallas/index.html
While Yahoo U.S. arranges the medals by the overall amount won
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/medals
If we were to go by Yahoo Mexico’s logic then Michael Phelps would be tied with Italy as 9th in the world for amount of medals won. What do you think is the right way to go about this?
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Update:
Looks like Google has decided to take their medal count from the official Chinese website for the Olympics and they too show the U.S. being number 2. What the fuck….
http://www.google.com/search?q=Beijing%202008%20Olympic%20Games
While the official NBC Website for the Olympics shows the U.S. at number 1
http://www.nbcolympics.com/medals/index.html
Beard RE: Guy’s with douchebag tattoos - “Hot”
I don’t know if that title up there actually made sense, and frankly I don’t give a fuck but thats what Amanda Beard said regarding Michael Phelps on some radio station.
Her exact quote was actually
“Eww, that’s nasty… I have never, ever hooked up with Michael Phelps,” Beard said via telephone from Beijing on the “Johnjay and Rich Show,” which is broadcast on Kiss FM 104.7 in Phoenix.
“Come on, I have really good taste,” Beard said. “He’s really not my type.”
“We don’t really even talk to each other”
First off Amanda Beard is that bitch at the bar who thinks every guy is staring at her…Michael Phelps might have something to say about that. I mean I’ll admit shes hot if you’re seeing her from behind or if you’re looking really fast at her face–with soap in your eyes…I mean she’s border line tranny. She’s walking a fine line…
Oh by the way Amanda if you happen to read this while Google’ing yourself…we are jokesters. We didn’t mean what we said about the soap.
Unlike Eddie Murphy...China doubleChecks before buying
Via The Guardian
For more than a year, officials in Beijing have been designing a special laboratory to determine the sex of any athletes taking part in this year’s Olympic games. “Suspected athletes will be evaluated from their external appearances by experts and undergo blood tests to examine their sex hormones, genes and chromosomes for sex determination,” says Professor Tian Qinjie. The tests will not be conducted on every female athlete, but will be required if serious doubts have been raised about an individual competitor - invariably one competing in the women’s events. “The aim is to protect fairness at the games while also protecting the rights of people with abnormal sexual development,” he says.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced sex testing in 1968 at the Olympic games in Mexico City, after the masculine appearance of some competitors, many pumped up by anabolic steroids, had started to raise questions about the gender of athletes in female events. Unsurprisingly, gender-determination tests were seen as degrading, with female competitors having to submit to humiliating and invasive physical examinations by a series of doctors. Later, the IOC decided to use a supposedly more sophisticated genetic test, based on chromosomes. Women usually have two X chromosomes; men an X and a Y chromosome. So, according to the rules of the test, only those athletes with two X chromosomes could be classed as women. However, many geneticists criticised the tests, saying that sex is not as simple as X and Y chromosomes and is not always simple to ascertain.
It is thought that around one in 1,000 babies are born with an “intersex” condition, the general term for people with chromosomal abnormalities. It may be physically obvious from birth - babies may have ambiguous reproductive organs, for instance - or it may remain unknown to people all their lives. At the Atlanta games in 1996, eight female athletes failed sex tests but were all cleared on appeal; seven were found to have an “intersex” condition. As a result, by the time of the Sydney games in 2000, the IOC had abolished universal sex testing but, as will happen in Beijing, some women still had to prove they really were women.
Transsexuals, who have had a sex change from male to female, can compete in women’s events in the Olympics, as long they wait two years after the operation.
Holy shit! I always thought that this was some sort of Hollywood created thing. I guess not.
George W. Bush Doesnt Care About Black People
So Stop Asking
Disgraced U.S. sprinter Marion Jones has asked President George W. Bush to commute her six-month prison sentence for lying to prosecutors about her steroid use, a Justice Department spokesman said on Monday.
The spokesman said there is a pending commutation petition for Jones, but declined to give any further details.
The Justice Department typically reviews petitions for commutations and pardons and makes recommendations on whether they should be granted. Most such petitions are denied.
That places them right behind George Bush
Lebron, Melo, and DWade will have to keep the shots on the court
Via Australia’s The Age
Beijing police have been visiting bar owners in the popular Sanlitun area and asking them to sign pledges agreeing to not serve black people or Mongolians and ban activities including dancing.
Bar owners said that police have been clamping down on black people and Mongolians, who are sometimes implicated in drug dealing and prostitution, as part of an Olympic clean-up campaign that they and locals fear will make for a secure but sterile Games.
So where is the U.S. Olympic Basketball and Track team supposed to go and drink? Yao Ming can’t come through on those drinks he promised. No prostitutes for the Mongolian descendants of Ghengis Khan either? The outrage! Seriously though…this is some racist shit. China is going out of their way to fuck up the Olympics being held over there. Way to stumble on the world stage.
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