Comments on: Après le déluge

By: RetRsvMike

RetRsvMike — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:20:34 +0000

MaxD: fruity drinks with umbrellas? then evidently any Navy O’Club will serve as a location.

By: Indy

Indy — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:03:55 +0000

Yes, the swimming at Beijing is over………..

(From today’s New York Post)

+++ Michael Phelps doesn’t have a girlfriend, but he celebrated his record-breaking eight gold medals in Beijing by sneaking off for a sizzling game of tonsil hockey with one of Australia’s hottest Olympians.

Phelps, fresh from shattering Mark Spitz’s 36-year-old record, was spotted Monday night in a hot make-out session with Down Under swimmer Stephanie Rice, a source tells The Post’s Clemente Lisi and Luke Dennehy. The pumped-up pair clinched and swapped spit at a celebratory bash outside the Olympic Village.

The Baltimore Bullet swooped in for the lip-lock with the 20-year-old brunette just weeks after she split from Aussie swimmer Eamon Sullivan. “All the swimmers are talking about it, and [Sullivan] is cut up about what happened,” the source said.

The day after the face-sucking frolics, Phelps and Rice cheekily posed together for Speedo – laughing and playfully groping each other as a photographer snapped them in their swimsuits. “I definitely admire him for his athletic ability and everything he’s achieved,” gushed Rice, who won three gold medals of her own. “I’m just really glad to be in the mix with that.”

Whether the dynamic duo is now a couple isn’t known. Phelps’ rep didn’t return our calls.+++

I think the paper got it all wrong, and they were just comparing gold medals in an innocent and wholesome manner.

By: MaxDamage

MaxDamage — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:49:18 +0000

XBradTC has an absolutely wonderful idea. I would only offer that if we’re going to compete (by which I mean people other than I are going to compete) in the nude then the winter games should be held in a different location than Greece.

Brazil comes to mind…

Or anyplace with a beach and those fruity drinks served with umbrellas. I’m not very picky…

– Max

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:34:53 +0000

“Stripped down and greased up like the wily Pathan”, eh?

I’m not certain, however, how many would be interested in watching nude weightlifting. I’m not certain I would want them for my friends, either…

By: XBradTC

XBradTC — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:06:13 +0000

Tim, throw in the original “compete in the nude” and I think you’re there. I’ll watch the womens track and field and the Lex Babes can watch the rest.

By: AW1 Tim

AW1 Tim — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:41:36 +0000

Lookit, I am all in favour of sports and competitions. My beef is that the Olympics have lost their collective way. It used to be that the games reflected competitions in skill sets that were required for combat. Archery, discus, shot put, running, javelin, rowing, swimming, etc. Now we have volleyball, basketball, softball, ballroom dancing, curling, hockey, ping pong, etc. Can “Magic the Gathering” card competition be far behind? How about adding some D&D RPG’s? Tractor pulling? WOW? Texas Hold’em?

Where does it stop? the Olympics, IMHO, are a joke, a sell-out to the almighty dollar and nothing short of scrapping the IOC and starting all over again will ever bring back it’s credibility.

Mandatory drug testing, NO commercial endorsements. NO government support. Pure Amateurs. Make a huge venue in Greece, in memory of the original games, and let it be held there in perpetuity. Make the games MEAN something more than who can cheat the best and get away with it, and who can make the most money and gain the propaganda edge.

I stopped being interested in the Olympics long ago. Maybe I am just jaded, but it seems to me to represent every nuance of the word “hypocrisy”.

Respects,