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Beijing's 91,000-seat Olympic stadium costs $9 million a year to maintain, but will host only one event—an opera—in 2009 and will eventually be turned into a mall. I hope it has a Sbarro! [LA Times] More »
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This story has it all: Ping Pong, drunken urination, karakoe, and of course at the center of it all a man named Wang Hao. Wang, who is China's most famed table tennis player, was involved in an altercation with a security guard on Thursday when the guard tried to stop him from urinating outside of a karaoke club. Now that's about 100 hilarity points right there, but there's more. Wang, while fighting with the guard, allegedly uttered the following quote, sure to become a classic: More »
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The horrific video of Hungarian weightlifter Janos Baranyai's elbow dislocation has been pulled from YouTube apparently, but I'm sure there are some more floating around.(Like after the jump.) Lucky for everyone who just could not stand watching the thing, the Daily Mail has all the dislocation shots from his first anguished, "GAHHH...Weight! Too! Much!" to the final painstaking "GAAAAHHHH! Elbow!" that have resulted in this montage. This is an image that should seared into your brain, so that the next time you attempt to lift that heavy basket of laundry, you will think of Janos Baranyai. And weep. More »
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Lin Dan, or Super Dan, is China's top badminton player. He's also had a few run-ins with authority figures. There was the time he tried to hit another player's coach with his racket. And the other time he took a swing at his own coach with a racket. None of that, however, has stopped the 24-year-old from becoming a Chinese heartthrob. Lin Dan puts the bad-ass in badminton, if that's in anyway possible. More »
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Seems like a fair question to me: Why did the U.S. men dunk 20 times against China, considering the blowout nature of the game? But when a foreign journalist asked it of head coach Mike Krzyzewski, he almost lost a hand. More »
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Since everything else seems to be censored, intrepid Aussie Garry Linnell decided to sit down and sample the ox, sheep, deer, and donkey dongs at the finest restaurants in Beijing. Because nothing unites the world like a nice cock sandwich. Evidently animal penises are quite the delicacy in Beijing. At least according to the Daily Telegraph. More »
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We present the mascots for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. It's a panda, an antelope, a fish, a swallow and an Olympic flame. Or, as we prefer to call those creatures, "nightmare fuel." Why are Olympic mascots always so scary? More »
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