I can’t add anything original but…

…Richard Castles (a Melbourne writer) wrote in The Age newspaper today:

I'm sorry, but coming first in the beach volleyball competition is just not the same as winning the marathon. One belongs in the Hall of Heroes, the other at Club Med.

The fastest man on earth gets one gold, the ping-pong champ the same? Come on. It's like comparing Miss Universe with Miss Congeniality, Best Director with Best Achievement in Costume Design…

… walking continues to be the stupidest event at the Olympic Games. Why don't they just run? As one commentator said during the Sydney Games, a contest to see who can walk the fastest is like a contest to see who can whisper the loudest.

When are we going to see the gold medal for juggling?

The big Olympic swindle....

By: pplater : August 10th, 2008-06:50

The Olympic games, it seems, are the new warfare: athletes, like soldiers before them, march behind the flag of their nation in order to do battle and win medals. It’s more of an economic war now: the host nation is ritually crippled by the cost of organi...

… do they all drown? Brilliant post my friend. I just cracked up laughing reading through the list while eating lunch. A dangerous thing to do, particularly when I got to Badminton. My secretary rushed in to make sure I was alright! A

Apologies for the scare Andrew...

By: pplater : August 10th, 2008-19:52

...any others you'd care to add to the list? Cheers, pplater.