Fun Fact: In the 1936 Olympics, two Japanese pole vaulters and close friends tied for the Silver Medal. Unable to break the tie for 5 hours of fierce competition, the two friends had their Silver and Bronze medals cut in half and welded together to form a pair of mixed medals. These became known as the Medals of Eternal Friendship.
North Korean and South Korean table tennis players shake hands after South Korea won
….wow. And nbc didn’t cover that at all.
This is a huge symbolic gesture, and ONCE AGAIN, NBC drops the ball. It’s so incredibly, fucking unfortunate that Olympic coverage in the United States has been sold to a corporation that doesn’t understand symbolism in the slightest.
Seriously, NBC, are you trying to become FOX News?
These two played together as a team in a exhibition match for peace a few months ago. To me, that’s a bigger deal, but YMMV. I just thought people might want to know.
Russians Viktoria Komova and Aliya Mustafina, who won silver and bronze respectively in the women’s gymnastics all-around competition Thursday evening, were in good spirits as they answered questions from reporters during post-meet press conference at the 02 Arena.
The two Russians were complimentary of American Gabrielle Douglas, who won the gold medal by 0.259 over Komova, the reigning World all-around silver medalist. “She performed beautifully today,” 17-year-old Komova said through a translator. “And I believe that she earned her gold medal. She was very, very good tonight.”
Echoed Mustafina: “I absolutely agree with Viktoria. She was fantastic. She didn’t make a single mistake. She became the leading athlete from the very beginning.”
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one time she beat me at the olympics, it was awesome
Raise your hand if your country has been personally victimized by Regina George.
That is so fetch.
On Fridays we wear gold.
I hear her legs are insured for 10 million dollars
Neil deGrasse Tyson tweets about what the Olympics would be like on Mars, doing the best coverage of the games so far.
Dear Olympics - Please replace every last one of your uninteresting, incompetent commentators with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
More reasons why Neil DeGrasse Tyson is my Science Hero.
replace NBC with Neil Tyson
His enthusiasm for women’s weightlifting has gotten ME into it. Gotta love him. And it.
has anyone noticed we brits literally take nothing seriously
#we parachuted our queen into the olympic stadium
#we made hundreds of Mary Poppins’ battle Voldemort
is it a little late to bring in the boston tea party because you guys took that pretty harsh
