Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Five-Ringed Circus Day 11: Swimmer cheats, and both a medal race and another swimmer heat up...

Cameron van der Burgh needs to return his gold medal now.

The South African has admitted that he took two illegal extra dolphin kicks in his 100m breaststroke victory and world-record.

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Stephanie Rice is back in the news again.

After the sexpot crashed out of the Olympics after all the controversies she's started, she now reveals that one of her training regimens involved...

... a stripper pole.

Men, I'll let you process that one for yourselves.

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While everyone is bemoaning the first medal-less Olympics for the US Boxing Team (Protip:  Boxing has lost most of it's credibility in this country over the last 20 years, and now basically represents occasional PPV and ESPN-filler material!), the Canada-USA women's soccer classic has had more controversy!

Turns out that Melissa Tancredi curb-stomped the head of the USA's Cali Lloyd, without foul, penalty, or red, during the match.

And Canada might be in more trouble:  FIFA's investigating the aftermath of the match, where Tancredi is claimed to have said the following:

"When asked what she said to Pederson after the call [that led to the penalty], she said: “I hope you can sleep tonight and put on your American jersey because that’s who you played for today. I was honest.”"

 I hope Tancredi is ready for a long vacation.  That's at least two sending-off offenses the ref ignored.

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And the medal count has heated up after a couple slow days.

Total:

China 73
USA  70
GBR  48

Gold:

China 34
USA  30
GBR  22

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