Posts under ‘Olympics’

I’m not a big Michael Phelps fan, but even I would agree 100% with this selection. Sports Illustrated has named Phelps their Sportsman of the Year for his eight gold medals in Beijing and for his work with kids since the Olympics. I don’t know about all the “greatest Olympian ever” talk, but no athlete [...]

That Anderson Cooper, the newly muscular and somewhat openly closeted CNN anchor and “60 Minutes” contributor, would get topped by an Olympic athlete isn’t much of a surprise. But that it was Michael Phelps and it unfolded on TV last night in a pool with both in bathing suits and shirtless, provided a nice perk [...]

From Down Under comes news that Olympics diving goldist Matt Mitcham has added yet another major award to his fistful of medals.  The coveted Sports Performer of the Year award came to him the other night in Melbourne.  Mitcham was one of eight outstanding athletes who were nominated for the 2008 award, including triathlete Emma Snowsill, swimmer Stephanie Rice [...]

How are sports dealing with that new game in town, called recession?  That depends on whom you talk to.  Some are optimistic, and think that sports will weather the storm.  According to John Moag, investment banker who specializes in sports,   “It’s kind of like booze and movies.  Psychologically, people do not want to give it up.”  [...]

Our reader friend in Australia, Lawrie Fabian, has this report on Matthew Mitcham.  Outsports readers will remember Lawrie as founding President and Coach of Melbourne’s Glamourhead Sharks Aquatic Club, the first gay and lesbian swim team in Victoria. He has coached swimmers and triathletes to personal bests at World Masters Games and Gay Games.  We [...]

Matthew Mitcham, the gay Australian diver who made Olympic history, says he was surprised to be the only out male among the more than 10,000 Olympic athletes during the Beijing Games. He spoke out this week in his first press conference since leaving Beijing about his status, his vacation and the future.

Mt. Olive Pickle Company and Vlasic take note: Michael Phelps won’t be endorsing you anytime soon. The record-setting Olympian hates pickles. He also must have a cellphone, his worst habit is sleeping through the alarm and Michael Jordan is his biggest influence.

Matthew Mitcham’s bum may soon be adorned with assusieBum. Fresh off of signing a management deal with Grand Slam International, speculation is swirling that the gay Aussie diver might ink a deal to become the new face and bum of aussieBum.

Jamaican sprint sensation Usain Bolt won the Olympic 100 meters in a world record time of 9.69, but he showboated the final 20 meters. Now, some physicists have calculated that Bolt could have run a mind-blowing 9.55 had he sprinted full on until the end. They have submitted their findings to the American Journal of [...]

There’s nothing quite like getting your day started munching on some Wheaties and staring at the orange box featuring decathlete Bryan Clay, who’s ripples and bulges tranfixed many a gay Olympic fan this month. Starting in September, you’ll get just that chance.
General Mills, maker of the crispy flakes, announced that Clay and gymnast Nastia Liukin [...]

5 reasons why American Olympians rule and the rest of the world is just jealous.
- The President personally inspects the ass of every beach volleyball player to make sure it meets Constitutional standards for American athletes. I think it’s in the 34th Amendment or something.
- Complain about us, and we’ll have our sabre athletes slice [...]

From the “We Can’t Make This Up” file: The U.S. Olympic Committee sent a cease-and-desist letter to the gay group The Northwest Bears after they called their summer campout the ‘Kamp Kodiak 2008 Olympic Village.’ The USOC owns all the trademarks, rights and imagry surrounding the Olympics and did not take kindly to a group [...]

More signs that the Beijing Olympics may be among the strangest ever held, in a cultural sense:
Chinese authorities have ordered the hot Beijing gay club Destination to shut its dance floor until further notice, in another sign of a crackdown prior to the Aug. 8 start of the Olympics.

Get ready for the blackout Games if China has its way. With the Olympics less than three weeks away, news organizations are nervous, including host U.S. broadcaster NBC, about the restrictions being imposed on news coverage as the communist country with a capitalist bent seeks to put the best light possible on itself.

One of [...]

- Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter who spent years in court fighting for the right to participate in the Olympics, failed to make the South African team, missing the qualifying 400-meter time of 45.55 by 0.70 seconds and not being selected for the relay team. He blames the court fight for taking him away from [...]