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… When Dick Pound called out the sport just a month from the opening of the Vancouver Olympics, claiming figure skating hadn’t yet cleaned up its potential for corruption, his words struck a nerve with fans and athletes.

Some said the former boss of the World Anti-Doping Agency doesn’t understand the new judging system. Most agreed it was lousy timing. …

Pound, a Montreal lawyer and a member of the International Olympic Committee, blasted the sport, saying there was no guarantee the new judging system has removed the potential for controversy in Vancouver. …

News Talk 610

I pay very little attention to figure skating, myself. It seems to me that controversies are more entertaining to fans than the athletics.

Besides … once you’ve seen the Iron Lotus in competition, you’ve already seen the ultimate the sport has to offer.

Click PLAY or watch the IRON LOTUS on YouTube.

North Koreans invented this combination … It resulted in a decapitation.

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robot gymnast doing Kovacs

February 1st, 2010 — Gymnastics, bars, biomechanics, horizontal bar, humour

Gymbits posted an update on that Japanese robot that swings on a bar.

Uchimura watch out. Japanese robot enthusiast Hinamitetu has a mechanical competitor improving rapidly.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I saved this video to use as an example of the biomechanics of swing and release.

Long term goal of this project? A Cylon gymnast?

… The intermediate step would be a robot assisted gymnast?

(via Gymnastics Examiner)

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dead fly circus

January 25th, 2010 — circus, humour

I got this email today.

1. Collect some dead flies from the office windowsills.

2. Put them in the sun to dry for one hour

3. Once they are dry, pick up a pencil and paper… Let your imagination run free

What to do when you are bored at work …

Thanks George.

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Stephen Colbert – Olympic Sport Psychologist

January 23rd, 2010 — Olympics, humour, snow and ice

NBC is hoping their Winter Olympics TV coverage will help viewers forget about Conan O’Brien.

On Wednesday’s episode of The Colbert Report, comedian Stephen missed out on his personal bid to qualify to the Vancouver Games as a U.S. Olympic athlete. (He thought it owed to him after he led a fundraising drive that collected $300,000 for USA Speedskating.)

It came down to this: a race between world champion speedskater Shani Davis and Colbert. The winner would get the last position on the U.S. Olympic Speedskating Team to Vancouver.

Shani had called Colbert “a Jerk”. This was a grudge match.

Davis won by 13 minutes.

On the bright side, after the loss Colbert was named “Assistant Sports Psychologist” to the Team. He’s coming to Vancouver.

Event better, on the same T.V. show, NBC Olympics chairman Dick Ebersol invited Colbert to join NBC as a colour commentator, saying he could give updates on Shani Davis.

Colbert will be one of the highlights of these Games for me.

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Harlem Globetrotter at Gymnastics

January 16th, 2010 — humour

Harlem Globetrotter star Moo Moo Evans exchanged workout tips and showed off his basketball wizardry with Olympic silver medalists Samantha Peszek and Bridget Sloan. …

photos and more videos – USAG

There’s no audio for the first 1min 30sec.

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