More photos of the London 2012 Olympic Games from a different angle
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Not that this needed mentioning, but wow, Usain Bolt is fast. Click the link below to see how he stacks up against all previous 100m medalists.
(via One Race, Every Medalist Ever - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com)
I think the part of Andy Murray in an Andy Murray biopic would be played by Michael Cera (with a bad Scottish accent).
Gabrielle Douglas captures gold in the women’s gymnastics all-around competition. She becomes the first African-American woman to win this title and the first American woman to capture gold in both individual and team events in the same Olympics.
While I knew this all afternoon yesterday, it was good to (finally) watch her performance last night.
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"Dear China,
You may have won way more medals than us and we may owe you tons of money but we still have way better cookies."
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You may have won way more medals than us and we may owe you tons of money but we still have way better cookies."
Because everyone needs at least one gif set of Mr. Bean at the Opening Ceremonies on their tumblr.
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NASA Goes to the Olympics – View all the cities that have hosted the modern Summer Olympics, starting with Athens in 1896 thru London in 2012. There have been 29 Summer Olympic Games held in 22 different cities. Repeating host cities include Athens, Paris, London and Los Angeles.
Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Them: “So-and-so won a bronze medals!”
You: “That’s fascinating. Did you know bronze is composed of roughly 88 percent copper and 12 percent tin? Its melting point is about 1742 degrees Fahrenheit.”
Them: “I wonder how London’s dealing with the Olympics.”
You: “That’s fascinating. More fascinating is how London dealt with World War II aerial bombardment. Working people basically forced their way into the tube stations during the Blitzkrieg, where they slept on the platforms.”
While I generally get Olympic fever, I’m looking forward to adding these to my useless knowledge stores.
In case you were wondering, an Olympic record was set today (two in archery, one by a man who happens to be blind), according to the Guardian’s new site, “Was an Olympic record set today?”
Important.
Odds are currently 1,000:1 that a flying saucer will appear over the Olympics opening ceremony. And that’s not the only outlandish bet British bookies have cooked up — you can also put money on Prince William’s wig!
London betting houses will offer odds on almost anything during the Olympic Games, and expect to handle a record $155 million in wagers during the competition that begins Friday and ends Aug. 12.
The British betting industry is one of the biggest in the world, worth an estimated $9 billion a year.
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Olympics Sponsorship of the Day: This is “just a taster of the mountain of weirdness we’re dealing with pre-Olympics. 16 days to go…” reports The Times Opinion.
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Olympics Sponsorship of the Day: This is “just a taster of the mountain of weirdness we’re dealing with pre-Olympics. 16 days to go…” reports The Times Opinion.
[thanks, james!]
(Source: thedailywhat)
Nothing to see here, just the Olympic rings floating down the River Thames.
(via nationalpost)
London’s new logo for the 2012 Olympics. I am intrigued by the concept, but not sure they got it quite right on execution. (As evidenced by this comment from theneilshow:
OH MY GOD! The Olympics have been taken over by the evil alien overlord Zolzdon! What will this mean for synchronized swimming?
My initial thought is that it doesn’t really say “London” to me. In addition to the legibility challenge, it doesn’t really strike me as having any visual component that grounds it in the location, don’t like it as much as the Vancouver logo, which had a real sense of place:
And it’s definitely not as great as the Stephen Colbert proposal:
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