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“Honestly, We Just Sort of Make This Shit Up as We Go… I Mean, Who Cares, it’s Track and Field, for God’s Sakes’

By oddSeth ⋅ November 15, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Marion Jones’ recent admission to loving the ‘roids and other performance enhancing drugs has put the IOC in quite the bind as far as what to do with official results for past events she medaled in.
“IOC officials said Thursday they are considering the unprecedented step of leaving the gold-medal spot vacant following Marion Jones’ confession […]

Marion Jones Is Raging

By oddJoe ⋅ October 5, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

In the latest big-time sports scandal to hit the headlines, Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones has admitted she used steroids before competing in the Sydney games in 2000 and is pleading guilty to federal charges related to an investigation into steroid use. She’ll also probably lose those medals she won there in Australia. But didn’t […]

Astronaut Suni Williams to Run Boston Marathon From Space

By oddSeth ⋅ March 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Astronaut Suni Williams is registered for next month’s Boston Marathon but unfortunately even though she’ll still be be stuck on the international space station when the other marathoners crazy running people not being chased by bears line up for the race. So she’s going to run it from space on a treadmill, and the Boston […]

Medal Detectives Find Grigorieva’s Gold

By oddJoe ⋅ August 4, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

How about some good news to carry you into the weekend? Earlier this week, police were able to recover an Olympic silver medal that had been stolen from Australian pole vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva. The medal, which the Russian-born athlete won at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, was among a stash of personal mementos stored […]

Justin Gatlin is Faster Than You Are

By oddSeth ⋅ May 12, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Justin Gatlin just broke the 100-meter world record Friday with a time of 9.76 seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix, bettering the previous time by a scant .01 seconds.
This means that, whoever you are, you’re slower than Justin Gatlin. Yes, it’s true. Deal with it.
The following people are also slower than Justin Gatlin, so […]

Tamsin Lewis: Australian 500M runner

By oddSeth ⋅ November 11, 2005 ⋅ Post a comment

Cons: Yet to win an Olympic medal.
Pros: Trains hard on the beach every single day.

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