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more about #olympics more comments → DennyCrane: I'm sorry; I have to. #olympictorchrelay more » Steve U: BREAKING: World Anti-Doping Agency reports that Canadian torch-bearing sled dogs have tested positive for abnormal quantities of Canine Growth Hormon... more » Bobby Big Wheel: I would have chosen a different Foreigner song for a story about Canada. #olympictorchrelay more » dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: [goes to address bar] [types: urbandictionary.com] [clicks add] [types in word field: dog sledding] [types in definition field: having sex with Canadi... more » Civil Negligence: On the sled: native son of Canada, Alan Thicke. #olympictorchrelay more » Kid Canada: On a related note, did you know that Canada is really fucking big? The country itself ain't the only thing that's really fucking big, my man. I'm re... more » AzureTexan: Re: photo Isn't that Sarah Palin and her four apostles? #olympictorchrelay more » StuScott Booyahs: She made the best time of all the torch-runners despite sporting a boner the whole way. #olympictorchrelay more » Weed Against Speed: Is it a coincidence that the Wendy's ad has returned and is directly above this post? I think not. #canada more » Steve U: Rebagliati is running as an anti-corporate, pro-labor candidate from the Weed Against Greed party. #canada more » ClueHeywood: His first bill will require all Tim Horton's to serve burritos. #canada more » sir_pantsalot: Someone should tell him that Canada's parliament has nothing to do with George Clinton. #canada more » Phintastic: This is why we haven't seen much of Spud around here lately isn't it? That's him, right? #canada more » Chris Hanson's Axe: His opponent has already taken to referring to him only as Ross Dimebagliati. #canada more » UkraineNotWeak: Don't forget to bring a towel when campaigning. #canada more » -
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No, Vancouver Is The Other Way!
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Olympic Torch Carried By Athlete On Steroids
The Vancouver games are only starting the torch relay, and we've already got a doping controversy. Oh, Olympics, how we've missed you. More » -
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Olympic Pothead Is Now High On Civil Service
Ross Rebagliati—everyone's favorite dope smoking Olympic snowboarder—is running for a seat in Canada's parliament. You see, in Canada, election districts are called "ridings" and he probably just got confused because he was so freakin' high. [CTV/Victoria Times] -
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This Time I Think They Really Are Made Of Chocolate
The Winter Olympics medals were unveiled, and they appear to be a melty psychedelic horror straight out of a Dali painting. It could have been worse; I was expecting all Vancouver medals to have loons on them. [Canadian Press] -
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You Have Less Than A Decade To Learn How To Curl
Only three cities—Munich, Germany; Annecy, France; and Pyeongchang, South Korea—have applied to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Guess no one wants all those snowboarders taking all their weed. [AP] -
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Not To Mention The Radioactive Mutant Athletes
Hiroshima and Nagasaki are preparing a joint bid for the 2020 Olympics in the name of world peace. Well, it worked for Sarajevo. (Note: picture definitely not the Olympic Rings.[AP] -
#riolympics
Who Really Chose Rio To Host The 2016 Olympics
Naturally the New Yorker does its best to bury the lead, but there are plenty of clues in this week's cover story "Gangs of Rio" as to why the world's #1 city for "violent international deaths" won the 2016 Olympics. More » -
#counterpoint
Why Obama's Olympic Loss Is Freedom's Gain
No surprise here: the simpering cultural sycophants of the granola media are declaring the Obamajunta's disastrous loss of the Olympics bid a victory for bossa nova music and that poor man's Hugo Chavez. How quaint! More » -
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Obama's Agony of Defeat
Our President found one community his thugs couldn't organize into submission: the International Olympic Committee. Without their usual control of the ballots, Obama's adoptive hometown cronies found themselves, for once, on the losing side of an election. More » -
#2016olympics
Who Is To Blame For Chicago's Olympic-Sized Failure?
Chicago did everything it could to bring the Olympics home....or did it? After all that time, effort and money wasted, someone needs to pay—and there are plenty of places to point your fingers. So let's assign some blame! More » -
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Chicago Mourns The Loss Of Civic Nuisance, Massive Boondoggle Known As The Olympics
Chicago had this thing and it was fucking golden and then, suddenly, it wasn't. And even though Jacques Rogge and the IOC saved the city the enormous, crippling burden of hosting their big track meet, some people were very sad. More » -
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Your 2016 Olympic City Is....
Rio de Janeiro! The Olympics will be held in South America for the first time ever (and only the third time in the Southern Hemisphere.) More » -
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Handicapping The 2016 Olympic Vote
Four cities are vying for the right to punish their own citizens with higher taxes, crippling transportation problems, and acres of over-priced and underused infrastructure projects that will blight the landscape for decades to come. Let the torch burn bright! More » -
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Canada Bogarting Its 2010 Olympic Venues
Canada—a country known planet-wide for its legendary rudeness and treachery—is denying foreign athletes access to Olympics sites in the run-up to the Vancouver Games, in order to protect their precious home-snow advantage. Oh....it is on, hosers. More » -
#trackandfield
Legless Runner Declares War On Bipeds
Track and field nerds may remember the name of Oscar Pistorius, the double amputee who fought to get into the Olympic Games (and then didn't qualify.) Apparently, he has turned his aggression on people who still have their legs. More » -
#mediameltdowns
Vancouver, On The Rocks
John Branch of The New York Times filed not one, but two stories about ice this weekend. Apparently, the Winter Olympics needs a lot of it, and not just in their Scotch. [NYT] -
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Golfers To Trade Cash For Gold
The IOC is planning to include golf and rugby in the 2016 Olympics. Finally! All of the world's best golfers can compete against each other in one event, just like every single weekend of the year. [MSNBC] -
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New Zealand Athlete Needs Escort To The Olympics
Logan Campbell, a taekwando fighter from New Zealand, needs money to fund his bid for the 2012 Olympics, because $NZ300,000 is a lot of money, currency calculator reveals. Campbell's plan? Open a brothel. But of course! More » -
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The Olympics Get Cash For Gold
Thanks to the rousing success of Beijing, the International Olympic Committee turned a $383 million profit in 2008. (Their current net worth is $1.15 billion.) Yay, amateurs! [Sports Business Journal] -
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The Laws Of Patriotism Will Require You To Root For Coach K In 2012
So, we learned yesterday, Mike Krzyzewski is expected to supplement his day job with a Team USA summer gig for the next three years. "All leads point to Coach K coming back," Jerry Colangelo said. And isn't that joyous! More »
