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When Your Kid Wants To Quit
After about 800 intoxicating hours of Olympic coverage, I'm sure I'm not the only parent imagining myself in the stands cheering my kids on as they pursue Olympic gold in swimming, or tennis, or athletics, or gymnastics, or beach volleyball (although I'm not a huge fan of beach volleyball — if the swimmers don't have to compet...
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Aussie Rower keeps his kids close
Australian crewman won a gold medal in men's pairs rowing. For inspiration, he kept a photo of his kids tucked away in his shorts:So he's a gold-medal winning father, and has been keeping a blog at drewginn.blogspot.com.It seems like there are more parents competing at the games this year, but it's possible that there always were and I...
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Should Countries be Allowed to Ban Women from the Olympics?
Some women's rights activists are calling to ban Saudi Arabia and Brunei from the Olympics — unless they start allowing women to participate. Right now, Saudi Arabia and Brunei are the only two countries that forbid women from competing in the Olympics. The two countries justify the ban on the grounds that some conservative Muslims see wome...
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Olympics Opening Uses One Girl’s Voice, Another Girl’s Face
I'm going to try very hard to report this story without swearing.While watching a live rehearsal of the Olympics opening ceremony, a high-ranking Chinese official decided that the seven-year-old singing the national anthem was not cute enough to make a live appearance, in part because she has crooked baby teeth. (Right, because only seven-year-ol...
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Athletes To Be Tested… For Gender
Olympic athletes are probably used to being tested, for steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. But an entire lab in Beijing will be dedicated to testing suspicious athletes for gender.This is actually nothing new - the first Olympics to test for sex was the Mexico City Games, in 1968. Officials feared Eastern European countries...
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