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Tag Archives: Olympics
British Cycling at the Beijing Olympics
In which I learn that Ed Clancy was going to take two for the team.
Olympics Parade
So, there’ll be a parade in London on the 16th October for the Beijing Olympians.
Nice of them to pick a thursday so that people from out of town who have to work in the week can’t come in, and people in London can only see the parade in their lunch hour.
Decathalon
The following is blatantly stolen (and slightly adapted) from Cosmic Variance
The decathlon combines ten different track and field events, so to come up with a final score we need some way to tally up all of the scores. You know what that means: an equation. Let’s imagine that you finish the 100 [...]
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Sprint Finals
It’s another good performance from British Cyclists, with three medals in the Sprints guaranteed.
The Men’s final will be Chris Hoy vs. Jason Kenny, and Victoria Pendleton will be in the Women’s final (her opponent is being decided as I type. Oh no! Guo has fallen!)
This means that the race will be reset.
Guo just edged the [...]
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