Let the kids play, and call the games straight Gentle Readers, Dr. J. always believed that referees are best not noticed. Invisibility correlates with quality officiating, especially in high stakes settings. There are two example that he would like to … Continue reading →
Dr. J is not the only Olympics aficionado in the Castle. GorT loves him some Olympics…especially the Winter Olympics. The Summer is cool – you get some of GorT’s favorites like soccer, archery, shooting (the last two getting hardly any … Continue reading →
See what happens when a USA bobsledder gets mad: Well, actually, it’s what happens when they get locked/stuck in the shower without their phone. ‘Puter does this all the time. We’re considering making his bathroom door a screendoor. GorTGorT is … Continue reading →
“The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.” … Continue reading →
Island Dweller unfortunately helps to confirm something the Czar is suspecting: Dear Czarness – and Most Esteemed Puter – There are things an increasingly resurgent and formerly hostile European power should be confronted about, but isn’t – and things that … Continue reading →
Uncle Jay, as many of you know, travels the world going from major sporting event to major sporting event, and rigging them to win insignificant amounts of money. Last year alone, he confided to Borepatch that he raked in over … Continue reading →
Gentle Readers, Dr. J. was torn between two posts as to which he was going to pick as his ‘Best of’ post. His true ‘Best-of’ article will go up later today. The runner up was his review of the 2012 … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin locks himself away in the lab for a couple of months and he emerges to find out that the International Olympic Committee has removed wrestling from the core list of sports for the 2020 Olympic games. According to … Continue reading →
Your Gormogons masters, the puppet-masters of the puppet-masters we are, have chosen to reveal to you, our devoted readers, a picture obtained from the Romney ’12 VP announcement pre-party this evening… With a name like Maroney, how could he take … Continue reading →
What? Did you expect pictures of badminton players or the dude from Algeria? Walsh-Jennings and May-Treanor are the role models here! This may sound like Dr. J. coming to the subject late, but Dr. J. has been pondering this issue … Continue reading →
GorT and family are big fans of soccer (sorry, we’re Americans, so it’s soccer – or fútbol, but not football) and we watched the highly contentious US Women versus Canadian soccer semi-final game earlier this week. I then re-watched portions of … Continue reading →
Kirani James of Grenada! Dr. J. was up late last night watching Olympic coverage, including the semifinals of the 400m dash. Grenada’s Kirani James placed first in the race while South African runner Oscar Pistorius came in last. For those … Continue reading →
Dr. J. had the same look on his face on a rainy November Saturday in fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh grade… Dr. J. played recreational soccer growing up. After an undefeated inaugural season, followed by an ever-defeated second season, Papa … Continue reading →
Operative FJR writes in on a cocktail napkin from a lil beer joint off the Lee Highway: Dr J, I don’t know if you have watched any of the women’s boxing but I happened to be watching a match when … Continue reading →
You wouldn’t know it by following the coverage of the Olympics in all of the main stream media outlets, but there was an Olympic first yesterday. But you are saying to yourself, “Oh great Mandarin, we are completely aware of … Continue reading →
Dr. J. found these videos at the U.K. guardian website. They are a series of LEGOified highlight reels. The first was highlights of the US v. France men’s basketball game. The second was a replay of the Germany v. South … Continue reading →
Dr. J. has a touch of the insomnia, so he went to the London 2012 results page and ran the numbers on the Ye/Lochte controversy. This graph represents Ye and Lochte’s split times for each pool length. This is where … Continue reading →
The thrill of victory… This article was linked to on Drudge, the other day. Basically, Ye Shiwen, a female Chinese swimmer and 2012 gold medalist enjoyed a 28.9(3) split in the last 50 m of the women’s 400 IM, compared … Continue reading →
Dread Czar, Further to your discussion with Dr. J on opening ceremony nonsense, did you notice that when NBC showed banners from past Olympics, the two recent American games went down the memory hole? I noticed it in the TV … Continue reading →
Citius, Altius, Fortius, unless you put in the third best performance on your team. Clan J. gathered around the holoscreen last night to watch the women’s gymnastics qualification round. NBC’s coverage was only trivially problematic, because the United States were … Continue reading →
Our beloved Dr. J. (who really is the nicest guy, provided he isnt’t electrocuting you with force lightning, in which case your opinion may fairly differ) grouses that the Olympics’ opening ceremony had a very pro-Leftist feel to them. The … Continue reading →
Five Rings for Foolish Progressives in their Posh Salons… The Opening Ceremonies are intended to be a window onto the history and culture of the sponsor nation. Indeed, the Vancouver Opening Ceremony was a celebration of the Inuit culture, the … Continue reading →
Not that Doctor, Dr. J., and you know how he’ll light the torch! ZZZZZZZZAP! A broken clock is right twice a day and a bat-shit crazy one-world-government progressive type can sure throw a terrific party once every two years. Tonight … Continue reading →
It’s hard to shut down the positronic brain at times and so I had a few musings that struck me last night as I drifted off to the Matrix to shoot at some recognizers. Mmmm, tasty. It’s menu item #34 … Continue reading →
Dr. J. knows the Dream Team, the Dream Team are friends of his…Kobe, you are no Dream Teamer Back in 1989, Dr. J. spent the summer with a family in Spain as part of an exchange. Dr. J.’s amigo, who … Continue reading →
Your Mandarin has taken the time out of his busy day performing experiments on replacing the creamy filling in Twinkies with a synthetic polymer – although some would say there really is no difference – to award the coveted and … Continue reading →
Confucius says: Chicago was never a shoo-in. The Southern Hemisphere has only had one Olympics, and that was in a country full of white people. The IOC really wants to establish its cred as a “global” player, so when Brazil … Continue reading →
The Mandarin and the Czar wonder what would happen if the City of Chicago had won the 2016 Olympics? One week before the opening ceremonies, the CTA would announce a funding crisis and cut all bus and train routes to … Continue reading →
The Obamas can celebrate another humiliating waste of his valuable time. Dropping incredible matters of international importance (like Afghanistan and Iran), the President raced to Copenhagen to push the Olympic site selection committee to pick Chicago as the site of … Continue reading →
GorT, call your office. An article in Time (dateline — Beijing (Peking, for you old timers)) is calling for the Olympics to dump two women-only sports: rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming. Ms. Beech aptly states in reference to synchronized swimming … Continue reading →
So, while Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps are clearly the top stories of these Olympics, attention should be paid to the photogenic and charismatic Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh (pictured). Now, as little regard as the Notorious ŒV had for … Continue reading →
So when Anton Fokin won Uzbekistan’s first medal in gymnastics, I clicked over to NBC’s page on the country. Here’s a live link to the map graphic on the page. Notice anything? (I’ll leave the link live…if they fix it, … Continue reading →
Abe Greenwald finds proof of the origins of China’s cool, creepy, inhuman Opening Ceremony aesthetic. So they hired Albert Speer’s son to do the architecture (just a coincidence, I’m sure), and aspired to Kim Il-Sung’s parade drill. It’s amazing their … Continue reading →
Baseball and softball are the first two sports dropped from the Olympics since, like, 1936, and they’re keeping trampoline?! Could it be anti-Americanism? Sí. Ja. Oui. Speaking of anti-Americanism, the Gormogons would like to thank the iconoclastic Britons at America … Continue reading →
Hands down. Make sure to read all the way through. Confucius, Œc. Vol.Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu. www.gormogons.com
Continue reading →I know the Olympics are generally GorT’s beat, but holy cow, what a crazy race the men’s 100m butterfly was. All credit to Serbia’s Milorad Čavić for taking it to Phelps without the slightest sign of fear or hesitation. One … Continue reading →
Besides the fact that Michael Phelps is physically pretty close to the perfect swimmer (length of legs, torso, size of hands, feet, double joints, etc.) the US Swim Team also has science on their side. Hear that, kids? Science. Go … Continue reading →
In keeping with the Olympic fever (there’s only one cure — more cowbell!) sweeping our fine Nation, ‘Puter rushes in where angels fear to tread. That’s right, boys and girls, it’s time to set straight, once and for all, which … Continue reading →
Sticking with our “what are they doing on vacation” theme, ‘Puter humbly offers up this synposis of the first portion of GorT’s vacation. GorT claims to be on vacation in the Palmetto (Bug) State, enjoying peaches and fireworks. The remaining … Continue reading →
Over at NRO’s Corner, Punditissimo Jonah Goldberg wonders why the heck Obama’s response is to refer the Ossetian War to the UN Security Council. I’d have thought the answer was obvious: the left’s innate aversion to any sort of positive … Continue reading →
So it appears that NBC and the Chinese have done some things with the Olympic presentations that might be less that openly honest. First, according to various sources, the fireworks during the opening ceremony were faked at least for the … Continue reading →
They’ve got 3,600 hours of Olympics on tap. And, as you say, maybe they’ll bother showing the shooting sports rather than thinking, in some bizarro leap of logic, “If people see shooters using $10,000 target pistols to punch holes in … Continue reading →
I’m a big fan of the Olympics, I watch just about any Olympic event, yes, any…try me. Plus, it’s a great excuse to enjoy HiDef channels. Hopefully, NBC won’t disappoint by showing Law & Order:ReRun while there are plenty of … Continue reading →
