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Olympic Games
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Rowers Bring Home Another Gold For South Africa
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
South Africa received its third gold medal earlier today, when our men’s lightweight coxless four managed to edge out Denmark and Great Britain in a thrilling rowing final at the Eton Downey rowing centre.
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Priceless Reaction By Olympic Judges After Gymnast’s Perfect Vault [PICS]
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
US gymnast McKayla Maroney yesterday scored 16,233 with a beautiful vault routine at the 2012 London Olympics. And just like her performance, the judges’ reactions were absolutely perfect.
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“I Am So Ronery” North Koreans Have It Hard At The Olympics
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
It must be tough to be a North Korean athlete at the Olympics. The hermit kingdom keeps a very close eye on their sportsmen and women in London, making sure none of them defect.
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Chad Le Clos Withdraws From Today’s 200M Olympics Final
02 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bert le Clos, the father of South Africa’s latest Olympic gold medalist, Chad le Clos, has confirmed in a radio interview this morning that his son has withdrawn from the final of the 200m individual medley.
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China’s Athlete Factory [GALLERY]
01 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Nearly all of China’s 396 Olympians qualified for the Games under the patronage of the country’s monolithic Soviet-style sports system. Most are handpicked at an early age – as young as four – by scouts, and attend special schools to train in sports assumed to match physical attributes.
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Second Olympian Expelled For Outrageously Racist Tweet
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 7 Comments
The Olympics haven’t even been running for a week and already a second athlete has been expelled from the games following a racist tweet. This time the guilty party was Michel Morganella, a Swiss football player, and his Twitter faux pas wasn’t nearly as tame as Voula Papachristou’s last week.
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Is This The Happiest Worker At The Olympics? [VIDEO]
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With all the bad (and some good) press the Olympics, it’s great to see videos like this one surfacing. Meet Rachel Onasanwo, who volunteered to help herd fans into the Olympic stadium on Friday. Her dry humour shows a fantasticly sarcastic, yet oddly sincere appreciation for the Games that you simply have to see.
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Olympic Fencer Refuses To Leave Piste After Massively Controversial Decision
31 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
After fighting to a semi-final draw with Britta Heidemann, Shin A Lam was on the brink of progressing to the gold medal round with one second left on the clock in extra time. If the match ended in a draw the latter would have moved on, instead the timing equipment was never activated and the final second dragged on, allowing Heidemann to score the final, winning hit. Clearly upset and convinced she was cheated, Shin A Lam refused to leave the piste, for 45 minutes.
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Police Clash With Pro-Cycling Campaigners Before Olympic Opening Ceremony [VIDEOS]
30 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
On Friday, cyclists from the “Critical Mass” cycling campaign defied police instructions not to go ahead with their monthly cycle on the eve of the Olympic opening ceremony. This ended up in brawls between police officers and cyclists in central London, resulting in 130 people being arrested.
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Fans Told Not To Tweet During Olympics
30 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Olympic fans wanting to share every race, event and lunch over twitter, were told on Sunday to avoid non-urgent text messages and tweets during events because overloading of data networks was affecting television coverage.
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Olympic Fail: Egyptian Athletes Receive Counterfeit Official Kit
27 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Well this is embarrassing, Egypt’s Olympic Organisers has provided over 100 of its Olympians with counterfeit official kits. The news came to light after of the team’s synchronised swimmers took to Twitter to complain.
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Athlete Banned From Olympics After Racist Twitter Joke
26 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 8 Comments
“With so many Africans in Greece, at least the West Nile mosquitoes will eat home made food!” It was this racist tweet that got Greek triple jumper, Voula Papachristou, expelled from the Olympics. She was referring to reports of mosquitoes carrying the West Nile virus in her home country.
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The Olympic Opening Ceremony Is Going To Be Pretty Weird, Featuring Voldemort
25 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
I feel a little bit sorry for the organisers of London’s Olympic Ceremony. They’ve got to follow on the epic opening ceremony held in Beijing, with thousand of drummers beating along in unison. The British just can’t control their people like that.
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David Beckham Surprises Fans At Olympics Photobooth [VIDEO]
25 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Imagine posing with a friend inside a mall photo booth when suddenly a super metrosexual-looking David Beckham pops his head inside and goes, “can I join you?” That is exactly what happened over the weekend at Westfield Shopping Centre in Stratford City – just a stone’s throw from the Olympic Park.
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SA Tennis Star Puts Personal Vendetta Ahead Of Nation’s Olympic Hopes
25 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 13 Comments
It’s a sad day when someone pushes their personal agenda above the Olympic hopes and dreams of an entire nation, which is exactly what two of SA’s top-ranked tennis players have done. Kevin Anderson and Chanelle Scheepers have made themselves unavailable to compete in this year’s Olympics as a result of what at best can be called petty spite.
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Superyachts Invade London Ahead Of The Olympics [GALLERY]
24 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Over the coming weeks the Thames in London will literally be transformed into a floating village of luxury and excess. Up to 100 superyachts are due to arrive for the Olympic Games.
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“Oscar Pistorius Has An Unfair Advantage” – Olympic Record Holder
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 19 Comments
The 400-metre world record holder, Michael Johnson, says he believes disabled athletes who use prosthetic limbs should NOT be allowed to compete in able-bodied races. This after news broke of Oscar Pistorius’ qualification for this year’s Olympics. Johnson argues that as it has not been disproved whether or not it provides such athletes with an unfair advantage.
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London Olympics Loses 10 000 Security Guards To “Software Glitch”
18 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
With the London Olympics a mere ten days away, this is a bit of an embarrassment for Boris Johnson to admit. With the decision to outsource security of the games to private security firm G4S, their last-minute withdrawal has left politicians with no choice but to call up members of the military. Many have just returned from deployment in Afghanistan.
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Four-Time Olympic Gold Medalist Says Slave Descendants Make Better Athletes
09 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Michael Johnson, a four-time Olympic gold medalist sprinter, has been quoted as saying that he believes slave descendants make better athletes and that the controversial topic should not be avoided, but rather discussed openly.
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NBC And Google Stage Cyber “War Games” For Olympics
06 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NBC and Google are planning for the Olympic games to be the largest-ever online offering of a sporting event. The aim is for the games to have 3 500 hours of live streaming footage. Google and NBC are staging “war games” in at least three countries to prepare for the possibility of hacker attacks or hardware malfunction.
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Olympic Torch: Kids Try Steal It, Man With Jetpack Flies With It [VIDEO]
03 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
To be honest, I’ve never really followed any of the other olympic torch relays, but this year’s one has been pretty awesome. Kids are trying to steal it, a man with a jetpack is flying with it, and stormtroopers are getting to carry it.
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Muse’s New Track, “Survival” Is Official Olympic 2012 Song [LISTEN]
28 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
The London Olympics may be crazily over budget, have an insane opening ceremony planned – with live animals – but they have what has to be the raddest official song in Olympic history, “Survival”, Muse’s new track from their upcoming album The 2nd Law. Click through to listen.
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Olympics 2012: Saudis Will Allow Women To Compete For The First Time
25 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Saudi Arabian officials have taken a huge, progressive step and will, for the first time ever, allow Saudi women to compete in the Olympic Games at this year’s event in London.
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Sportswriter Mark Keohane Denies Sex And Cocaine Abuse Scandal
03 Jun 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 11 Comments
Renowned sportswriter Mark Keohane resigned from his position as spokesperson for the South African Olympic team and stepped down as director of Highbury Safika Media (HSM) following sexual harassment and drug abuse claims.
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Would You Pay £100 000 For An Authentic Olympic Torch?
21 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This past Saturday the official Olympic torch relay began, with 8 000 lucky torchbearers chosen to be a part of history. However, a number of them have chosen short-lived wealth over Olympic legacy as they headed for e-Bay to sell off their unique pieces of history, for exorbitant amounts of cash.
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The Olympic Torch Is On Its Way To London
10 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The first part of the Olympics happened this morning, which saw the lighting of the Olympic torch in Ancient Olympia in Greece. This marks the start of the 78 day torch relay to the Olympic Stadium. Where will the torch be traveling this year?
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Residential Buildings To House Surface-to-Air Missiles During London Olympics
30 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Oh awesome, this makes total sense. The UK’s Ministry of Defense is planning to install surface-to-air missiles on top of residential flats in east London for the duration of the Olympic Games. The bulk of the missile array is intended for the Lexington Building Water Tower, which has about 700 people living in and around it.
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Oscar Pistorius Makes TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People In The World List
19 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Oscar Pistorius has been named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2012. He is the only South African on the list. See who he shares it with, and what the magazine had to say about him, after the jump.
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YouTube And NBC Will Live-Stream The Entire Summer 2012 Olympics For Free
09 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time ever, you’ll be able to watch every single Olympic event live, for free, without having to pirate it through some dodgy online stream. In fact, it’s actually a clever marketing ploy on the behalf of NBC, but still, it’s better than nothing.
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Take The “Controversial” London Olympics Sensitivity Quiz
07 Mar 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
As the Olympic Games draw nearer, organisers have made the almost 70 000 volunteers assisting at the Olympiad take a sensitivity quiz to assess their readiness to meet a variety of different people that will be visiting London. Given that this is England, you can bet some of their responses were not… er, productive.
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