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Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Put A Pretty Face On It

This has to be the best lede paragraph I've seen in a long time - WaPo (pay wall)

At the starting gate, 200 feet up, big air Olympians can choose from a panoramic array of views. Straight ahead, they can take in the grand Beijing skyline, the under-construction Citic Tower poking into the clouds. Behind them, they can peer out at the craggy, brownish Western Mountains in the distance. And to their left, they can gaze upon a dystopic array of cooling towers and blighted office buildings, a fever dream that looks like someone plopped Homer Simpson’s workplace into circa-2005 Bushwick.

It just doesn't quite capture that winter wonderland feel, does it?

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Today's Olympic Video


The single most important aspect of world-class athletic performance is the ability to maintain a razor-sharp focus on the task at hand.  The great ones know this almost instinctively, and a great coach knows how to prepare the athlete to stay in the moment and concentrate. 


Sunday, August 14, 2016

Dang, America


Out of 45 possible medals, US shooters have managed only 3.

We have more guns per capita than anybody.

We spend lotsa time and money on it - we shoot a lot.

Three lousy medals, and the only gold is BB guns?  Seriously - what's the fucking point??

Of course, ya gotta figure the US team's at a particular disadvantage, since the competitors aren't allowed to shoot at each other. 

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Sochi 2014

Walt Putin is a Soviet era kinda guy, and he's having a difficult time breaking with the old Soviet habit of trying to get style to triumph over substance. (not that he's the only politico who seems always to fall for his own bullshit - just sayin', y'know?)

Read about some of this shit at UK's Daily Mail.