Pirates steal sport

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.

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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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Run up for Jah

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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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.

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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.

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Pool brouhaha splashes at the shallow end

Olympic Rant #8 Dopey blasts dwarf win

‘YOU’RE a drug cheat.’

‘No you’re a drug cheat.’

‘You’re a druggie.’

Nah, you’re a druggie; nah, nah, nah.’

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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.

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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.

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