Hearing-and speech-impaired stage presenter Jiang Xintian passes the sacred flame of the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games to the first torchbearer Jin Jing during the lighting ceremony in the Temple of Heaven in Beijing on August 28, 2008.
Clouds cleared enough Thursday morning to allow the sun to ignite the Beijing Paralympic flame, and the organizers believed it boded well. Continue reading ›
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I am often asked if the Olympic village - the vast restaurant and housing conglomeration that hosts the world’s top athletes for the duration of the Games - is the sex-fest it is cracked up to be. My answer is always the same: too right it is.
I played my first Games in Barcelona in 1992 and got laid more often in those two and a half weeks than in the rest of my life up to that point. That is to say twice, which may not sound a lot, but for a 21-year-old undergraduate with crooked teeth, it was a minor miracle.
Barcelona was, for many of us Olympic virgins, as much about sex as it was about sport. There were the gorgeous hostesses - there to assist the athletes - in their bright yellow shirts and black skirts; there were the indigenous lovelies who came to watch the competitions. And then there were the female athletes - literally thousands of them - strutting, shimmying, sashaying and jogging around the village, clad in Lycra and exposing yard upon yard of shiny, toned, rippling and unimaginably exotic flesh. Continue reading ›
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Yelena Isinbayeva underlined her star status by breaking the world record yet again after bagging an inevitable gold medal in the pole vault in the Bird’s Nest.
For the second straight Olympic Games, Yelena Isinbayeva set a new World record in the Pole Vault. The Russian defended her title with a third attempt clearance at 5.05m, adding a centimetre to her own 5.04m record set last month at the Herculis Super Grand Prix in Monaco, which broke the one she set in Rome two weeks earlier. Continue reading ›
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The 200 female guides who led each country’s athletes onto the National Stadium during last week’s opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympic Games had to strip naked to qualify for the job, a local media report said Friday. Continue reading ›
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A revolutionary bodysuit that British swimmers hope will help them power to medals at the Beijing Olympics could be banned.
The skintight Speedo LZR Racer costume, which was developed with help from Nasa scientists, has been worn in 16 world record-breaking swims in just six weeks since its launch, and now swimmers are clamouring to try it.
But the sport’s governing body is worried that, because it apparently helps swimmers go faster, wearing it could constitute cheating. Continue reading ›
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