In the words of Just South of the Dot blog “I HATE YOU NBC. I. HATE. YOU.”
Then Mike shows exactly how to get around their inane obsession with Beach Volleyball. Is it entertaining? A little. Olympic? Not really. Especially when you show BV instead of ancient tradtions like Hammer and Pentathlon. Some of us suspect [...]

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Watching NBC’s nightly Olympic coverage of the same three sports and the 4 same people again and again forces huge groans out of me each night. The made-for-TV prime time soap opera is once again so melodramatic and drawn out, that it doesn’t even feel like I am watching sports.
I guess enough of us have [...]

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I read a lot about the FUWA when they were first unveiled as the 2008 Beijing Olympic mascots about a year ago. Thought now, on this opening day might be a good time to review how the mascots came to be.
According to the Olympic site, each of Fuwa has a rhyming two-syllable name -a traditional [...]

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China has had to face its own environmental nightmares on the global stage. Air pollution from automobiles has changed driving restrictions, factories are being threatened to shut down, and now the lake in Qingdao being used for aquatic competitions is filled with algae. In some areas the lake may be several feet deep in algae [...]

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