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Posts tagged Olympic games
TOI Article - 'Why Blacks outrace...
September 4, 2008
This was supposed to be posted in the “Olympic season” but better late than never. I think any study that starts with the central assumption that there is some great tangible genetic difference between a “black” or “white” person is bound to leave out other possible... [+]
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04Sep
It's Over. Top 10 Moments of the...
August 24, 2008
(Image Source – Times of India – Click to Enlarge) The 2008 Beijing Olympics are over. The winner is China and mass consumption and among the losers are the actual rural and migrant workers of China, the ones doing the clean-up and well, us for watching... [+]
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24Aug
IOC censoring videos of the Beijing...
August 19, 2008
The IOC is threatening Pirate Bay for allowing users to share (upload and download) videos of the Beijing Olympics and is especially concerned that videos of the Closing Ceremony would be up shortly after the event. If IOC thinks it can prevent technologically-equipped people from catching... [+]
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19Aug
The Invisibles that Made the Beijing...
August 19, 2008
I mentioned earlier that the computer-generated 55-second video footage of giant fireworks on film at the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics was pure simulacrum–with no relation to ‘reality.’ It turns out that there was more “staging” than meets the eye at the 2008 Beijing... [+]
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Raj Bhavsar does us proud - Third...
August 19, 2008
The Times of India reports: BEIJING: In a perfect world, Raj Bhavsar should have won an Olympic medal for India. Instead, the gymnast did America proud in Beijing. The 28-year-old Houston lad, born to Gujarati parents Bob and Sue, was part of the sixmember American men’s... [+]
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Deport Olympic Gold Medalist Henry...
August 19, 2008
“I’m here and this is my dream. So it’s cool.” Cejudo, crying the moment the match ended and wrapping himself in an American flag, defeated Tomohiro Matsunaga of Japan 2-2 on tiebreaker and 3-0 in the best-of-three match. He is the son of undocumented Mexican immigrants... [+]
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Beijing Olympics - Is anyone else...
August 18, 2008
Too much of a good thing syndrome? Congratulations to him though, for becoming the “greatest Olympian ever.” However, I would like it if that label was used to describe winners of the decathlon event, all-round athletes, rather than someone participating in aquatic events differentiated by strokes and... [+]
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18Aug
Immigrants Coming Up Big at the...
August 14, 2008
This was published in the Toronto Sun, August 8. Article: Open-door policy at work; Immigrants have history of excelling for Canada at the Olympics Lennox Lewis, who left England for Kitchener at age 12. A decade later, he stepped on to the podium in Seoul to accept gold.... [+]
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14Aug