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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 8, 2010 10:07:06 GMT -8
Gasp posted an article on the Vancouver Olympics thread about Bob Condron, head of Olympic Media since 1997. In his reminiscing, he mentioned a memory he had about Apolo: And then there is Apolo Ohno who lived at the Olympic Training Center for four years preparing for the 2006 games in Torino, Italy where he won a gold medal in speed skating. “He came back to Colorado and went to every person that had ever served him a meal or cared for him. He hugged them and put his medal round their necks. He said if all those people hadn’t cared about him and smiled with him every day, he would have left the sport.”The entire article is interesting, and can be found (Reply #32) on our Vancouver Olympics thread: therockerforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=trips&action=display&thread=338&page=3
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Post by mtnme on Jan 14, 2010 11:54:44 GMT -8
ummmm, the link only lets you see the aol login page. What if you aren't an aol mail member?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2010 20:42:07 GMT -8
I'll see if I can find the alert again, but I'm pretty sure I deleted after posting.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2010 20:47:50 GMT -8
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.Ways to Become an Olympic Sex Symbol* Posted by Qichen Zhang on January 14, 2010 at 1:53 am
As the Vancouver Winter Olympics approach, I become distinctly aware of the fact that network television is conspiratorially trying to vault certain athletes onto a certain pedestal. I’m not referring to different earthly minerals here, but I’m thinking more along the lines of brainwashing the public to believe that certain dudes in sterilizing tights happen to be God’s gift to ice skating aficionados. After years of analyzing Bob “I Only Work Leap Years” Costa’s special reports on NBC about specific athletes, I think I’ve built a pretty comprehensive list of qualities that a gymnast, speed skater, and–Jesus help us all if this ever happens–curler must possess to make it big into the collective consciousness.
Have the name of a Greek god. This one’s pretty obvious. How many gold medalists do you know named Andy Stitzer? Partly the doing of NBC’s prescient obsession with him the year of the Salt Lake City Games, Apolo Ohno definitely benefited from his dad totally freeloading on a pompous and possibly super traumatic naming decision. It’s unsurprising that the Olympic Committee granted him the gold medal even though he finished one of his races second–the man can bend people at sheer will, especially with hair like that. And it doesn’t really matter that Ohno wasn’t named specifically after the god, because really, who can focus on that when your last name is an exclamation in itself? We can all only stop hating him for him winning the genetic lottery when we find out how many times he was beat up in grade school before he started working out for future retribution. (I hope it’s a lot.)
Be a super-dee-duper All-American do-gooder. Pie-eating nationalists will always be predictably easy to please–you give them a wholesome, hardworkin’ teenager from the midwest just hoping to bring some honor to the heartland and they’ll stop being pissed that “My Name is Earl” won’t be the regularly scheduled programming for two weeks. That’s why all of the blond, freckle-faced youngin’s from Texas get all the attention during these two weeks every single time. Shawn Johnson, Sasha Cohen, that one chick who was actually really crappy at diving and yet got more camera time than the non-American gold medalist–they all had one creepy thing in common, and that was America’s capitalization on their patriotic cuteness and absurdly happy-go-lucky cheeriness. With their scarily vehement “GO USA!” chants captured on film for eternity, they might as well have been wearing eagle-emblazoned letter jackets onto the podium. Can we please just lay it all out? Because basically, Paul and Morgan Hamm are just two short dudes in tights wearing some ugly-ass primary colors.
Double the trouble is too much to handle. Read more qualifications (or maybe disqualifications) after the jump.
(Pic of the Hamm brothers here, shirtless, in jeans, draped in medals)
Use as many “stoked’s” and/or “brah’s” in your interviews as possible. “Any medal would be good. A big gold one even better.” “My goal that day was to get a sunburn. That’s all I wanted.” And the best one: “Where would one find a Fabio cutout?” Yes, these words were all physically spoken by Shaun White.
(pic of SW here with mouth wide-open)
I love lamp! Engage unabashedly in douchebaggery out of the arena. Learn the best from Michael Phelps for this one. To be fair (and generous), cocking a baseball cap sideways and being stupid enough to get caught with a bong is probably the best way he knew how to celebrate depleting the earth of gold for centuries to come. Congrats, Phelpers! You’ve won our hearts AND our respect!
(If I have to tell you which picture to insert here, you have FLUNKED the supermarket tabloid test!)
Say nope to dope, kids. Have great hair. Did I mention that Apolo Ohno has great hair?
(and of course the hot RED pic of Apolo w/red bandana, dres pants, barefoot, fake skatinf for Annie L)
Shaun! Over here! We've found Fabio. Compete on Dancing With the Stars in between consecutive Olympics and dance a lot of tango in tight pants. I forget where I was going with this.
(I think this pic is inserted for all the guys. HOT pic of Julianne during the 100th show, May 6th dance.)
Oh, right. I know I’m making it really vague who I’ll be rooting for this time around, but I like to keep things a surprise. GO CANADA!
*(you know, minus the whole being born, naturally endowed with the biceps of a raging roid abuser thing.)
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Post by mtnme on Jan 14, 2010 21:38:09 GMT -8
bwahahaha! Thanks for posting that, gasp! I was starting to feel completely in the dark! LOL
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Post by mtnme on Jan 15, 2010 20:36:05 GMT -8
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 17, 2010 21:32:09 GMT -8
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 20, 2010 1:37:51 GMT -8
This was called to my attention at the Silver Skates competiton on Saturday, and I was reminded of it during my weekly grocery shopping yesterday: Apolo is featured in at least 3 poses on PowerAde bottles... if I was a really good webmistress, I'd go to the store and take a picture of each bottle - but I'm not a really good webmistress...
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 21, 2010 10:39:06 GMT -8
You have to be a subscriber to Sports Business Daily to see the full article (and I'm not), but here are the excerpts that came with the Google Alert: www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=sbd.preview&articleID=136391Turnkey Poll: Sports Execs Looking Forward To Olympic HockeyHockey is the Winter Olympics event that sports execs are most looking forward to watching during next month's Vancouver Games, according to results from a Turnkey Sports Poll taken in December. Following hockey, alpine events set for Whistler also remain popular among sports execs surveyed... ...Among athletes competing in Vancouver, US short track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno ranks as the athlete sports execs are most looking forward to seeing.------------------------------------------- Annnnnd... here's a promo video from Universal Sports with an interview by Summer Sanders. The first half is about Apolo, the second half is about JR Celski: 2010 Winter Olympics Short Track Speedskating Preview - from Universal Sports
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Post by mtnme on Jan 21, 2010 10:58:49 GMT -8
This was called to my attention at the Silver Skates competiton on Saturday, and I was reminded of it during my weekly grocery shopping yesterday: Apolo is featured in at least 3 poses on PowerAde bottles... if I was a really good webmistress, I'd go to the store and take a picture of each bottle - but I'm not a really good webmistress... Well, if you were a REALLY good webmistress...you would go out and BUY the bottles, and THEN take a picture of them...
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 21, 2010 16:29:40 GMT -8
World Champ Taking Olympic Aim at OhnoApolo Anton Ohno has known all along that he will have a target on his back when he arrives to compete in short-track speedskating at the Vancouver Olympics. Now, here's proof. World champion Lee Ho-suk of South Korea named Ohno specifically when asked about his medal aspirations in Vancouver. “My goal is to win a gold by beating Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States and Canada’s Charles Hamelin,” he said. “When I get my first gold, I will then aim at another.” Read more: blogs.sltrib.com/olympics/index.php?p=9667&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 21, 2010 23:19:23 GMT -8
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Post by Laura (Lori) on Jan 22, 2010 0:11:20 GMT -8
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ronjuddsolympicsinsider/2010845857_doing_a_pop-in_on_apolo_ohno_a.htmlDoing a 'pop-in' on Apolo Ohno and J.R. CelskiBy Ron Judd / Seattle Times / January 20, 2010 KEARNS, Utah -- Well, I can save "Mythbusters" the trouble. As it turns out, it is possible to take a bad photo of Apolo Anton Ohno, and I have proven it, right here on this post. (Sorry, Apolo. You should have seen the other ones.) We're in Kearns during a lull (insert your own "How can you tell? joke here) in the U.S. Figure Skating Trials, meeting up with local short-track racers Ohno and J.R. Celski. We'll have an in-depth feature on Ohno, the five-time medalist, and Celski, the Olympic newbie, in our upcoming Winter Olympics special section on Feb. 7. We also have some highly unprofessional, but fairly entertaining, "Quick Question" video segments with both athletes, which we'll post here when we solve a couple minor technical challenges, namely slow wi-fi connections. Check back for that later. Meantime, here's some news from the Olympic Oval in Kearns: -- Ohno looks lean, fit, and super-fast -- and a little tired. He's been doing thrice-daily workouts for two months, and says he's in the best condition of his life. Having covered Ohno on the Olympic warpath for more than a decade now, all I can say is: Watch out, world. We'll post the Apolo video -- which includes updates on his current social life, as well as his favorite Washington State Potato recipe. -- Celski is progressing nicely in his recovery from the sliced-leg incident at the Olympic Trials. It's a minor miracle that he's out there skating. But he's gone far beyond that, skating at about 95 percent of his pre-crash level, his coaches say. Celski, too, looks tired, but the kid has an indefatigable spirit. His teammates, Ohno included, expect him to be back in full race form by the time the Games begin. More on all this later.
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