Olympic Rant #17 IOC what you are up to
Pirates of the High-O Sea
REDCLIFFE Musical Theatre rendered the Gilbert & Sullivan musical The Pirates of Penzance as if it were carried on an invigorating ocean breeze.
Pirates steal sport
Category: London Olympics
Phoney war on drugs
Olympic rant #16 Journalism 101 Create a furore
THE Bolt v Lewis drug brouhaha was a classic media beat-up. It raced across international television screens and newspaper front pages with a speed worthy of the central characters.
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Olympic Rant #15 The Mailman delivers
OLYMPIC coverage by the U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail is ranging from traditional adolescent-male nonsense to the downright weird.
… Go to Article Winners and sinners
Olympic Rant #15 Third-rate Stuporpowers declare war
THE rivalry for Olympic medals between Great Britain and Australia is difficult to understand if you are not from one of the two countries.
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Olympic Rant #14 Celebrate Jamaican Independence
OLYMPIC athletes Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake provided a thrilling prelude to today’s Jamaican Independence Day with a combined four medals in the marquee 100m sprints.
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Olympic Rant #12 Fast men are gone in well under 10
THE power of words is more than a casual contribution to the living mythology that is Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt.
… Go to Article Games people play
Olympic Rant #11 Games reputation on the chopping block
WHEN I heard the IOC had booted out a referee and the coppers had lumbered an Olympic tweeter, I thought it best to turn my attention to an alternative spectacular, the annual Pine Rivers Show.
… Go to Article Badminton should be good mittens one of my favourite things
Illympic Rant #10 Do those Commie bastards!!!
IN an earlier rant I portrayed the efficiently murderous missiles being developed by a Russian-Indian partnership as shuttlecocks for the impending Illympic sport of water badminton.
… Go to Article Pay a wet tribute to Phelps
Olympic Rant #9 Give the pool cleaner a medal
ONE important thing which sets sporting champions apart from the rest of us is they hat3e to lose.
… Go to Article How the West has lost
Olympic Rant #7 More surprises than at a Tea Party Geography Quiz
UPSETS are the order of the first daze of the 2012 Games.
… Go to Article Shoot and Poke at the Olympics
Olympic rant *6 Asia tops the West
They like to start the killing sports early at the Olympics.
China’s Siling Yi took gold in the 1om women’s air-rifle shooting-at-things and South Korean Jongoh Jin won the men’s 10m air-pistol shooting-at-things.
… Go to Article Rand and rand the Olympic track
Olympic Ayn Rant # 3: The American Anthem
I AM a big fan of political and corporate leaders aligning themselves with arts and literature to the merriment of the general public.
… Go to Article Mad Mayor forgets it is all Greek
Olympic Rant #2: The London Games Anthem
WE all might worry about the London Lord Mayor’s insistence on an Olympic anthem in the style of an ancient Greek ode if we did not know Boris Johnson is a total loop-de-loop.… Go to Article
Gonzoid rants on the London Olympics 2012
Olympic Rant #1 The Patron
THESE Olympic reports are written from the edge of the city and the jaws of hell.
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