sidelined

There is only one word by which we can described Australia’s overall performance so far in the Bejing Olympics. Disgraceful. Bloody disgraceful. Not only are we slipping backwards since Athens, we have been overtaken by the bloody poms. People from a country where sporting success is a common as a cold beer. Already, the Brits [...]

I’m not that much into the whole swimming bizzo but there was a piece of such pure stupidity in today’s SMH that has turned my attention (momentarily) away from the footy. It was a piece featuring quotes from Brian Stehr, the coach of Nick D’Arcy who is facing charges for assaulting another swimmer in a [...]

Loudly whispered suspicions have been confirmed that Olympian Marion Jones used performance enhancing substances in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics. Jones has said that “tapped around the truth for too long”. Tapped around the truth? Ms Jones, you have stomped on the truth then run it over with a steam roller before burying [...]

What fun. This from The IOC. This evening about 10,000 people were present at a ceremony on Tianan’men Square, where the IOC President, Jacques Rogge, invited the world to come and join the Beijing 2008 party. In a spectacular ceremony in front of the Forbidden City, one of China’s most famous historical landmarks, the IOC [...]

The has been a lot of interesting sporting news to come out of the 119th Olympic Session held in Guatemala. Firstly there was the announcement that Sochi, Russia is the next host city of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today elected Sochi (Russian Federation) as the host city of the [...]

“I only hoped that I wanted to swim half as much as other people want me to.” So a glittering swimming career ends, at the tender age of 24. As Thorpe has apparently said, ‘I’m a 24 year old, and I’m only just 24 as well.’ I guess it’s a ripe old age if one [...]

There has been a lot of gnashing of teeth, regarding the scheduling of the finals of some Olympic events to the morning in order to satisfy American TV commitments. I can’t say I disagree with the sentiment, but the Olympic story is now about paying the piper, having prostituted themselves on the alter of the [...]