How Do Archers Resist Firing Arrows At Everyone In The Spectator Gallery?

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Using "trivia" in the literal sense -- I just noticed that including this year, I have occupied different residences for the last 3 Winter Olympics ( Read more... )

This is goddamned hilarious, however it contains spoilers for Breaking Bad, so DO NOT watch unless you've watched S5E5, "Dead Freight" all the way to the end.

( Youtube link behind the cut )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Spock

"Spock also won an Olympic gold medal in rowing in 1924 while attending Yale University."

Momentarily intrigued by a pointer in a friend's FB status, I looked at this: apparently there have been some refereeing controversies. The blogger criticizes FIFA because apparently the only mistake they'll admit to is that replays were shown and that they're trying to just make any dispute die down without having to confront it ( Read more... )

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/reuters/100310/sports/csports_us_aircanada_hockey

Canada's largest airline has learned it sometimes has to take a back seat to the country's biggest sporting passion, ice hockey, the head of Air Canada said on ( Read more... )

This is awesome. Everyone always talks/jokes about the intermission/halftime effect but I don't know that I've ever seen a graph:


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The Vancouver Games: A Gold in Drinking

The city of Vancouver, and the ski village of Whistler, are terrific hosts for these Olympic Games. [...] But let's face it: if public intoxication was an Olympic sport, Vancouver and Whistler would own the podium ( Read more... )

I noticed on a closeup of Ryan Miller that he has "Matt Man" on the back of his helmet, and Googling it led to these articles:

Olympic Officials Make Ryan Miller, Tim Thomas and Jonathan Quick Cover Messages on Masks

The back of Ryan Miller's mask had the words "Miller Time" painted on it, which the International Olympic Committee deemed to be ( Read more... )

( Spoilers )