The media can't figure out why Alicia Sacramone is so popular

Alicia Sacramone has become one of the most popular athletes on the US Olympics team - a fact that the mainstream media seems to find puzzling.

During the broadcast of the first day of individual event finals, lead gymnastics announcer Al Trautwig was seemingly flabbergasted that Sacramone was the second-most searched for athlete on NBCOlympics.com, behind only Michael Phelps.

These talking heads are really mental midgets....unless you're gay, do you need an explanation? I mean do a simple google search of Alicia Sacramone....and she's not even naked

IT TAKES A LOT TO IMPRESS THE CHURCH

Even though Michael Phelps made Olympic history, one church doesn’t think the 8-time gold-winning swimmer is all that high and mighty.

HOLA!

It’s not often in this day and age of political correctness to see a large group of people being totally racist. Unless you live in Spain. According to the Guardian:
Spain’s Olympic basketball teams have risked upsetting their Chinese hosts by posing for a pre-Games advert making slit-eyed gestures.

The advert for a courier company, which is an official sponsor of the Spanish Basketball Federation, occupied a full page in the sports daily Marca, the country’s best-selling newspaper.

I’m not sure what’s worse, the fact that they’re doing the slant-eye move (which is popular only among third graders) or the fact that they are completely oblivious to the fact that it’s offensive to over a billion people. Spain is kind of like the world’s grandpa. When everyone gets together, he still tells really uncomfortable jokes that usually involve some racial slur. And when your mom tells him to stop his only response is, “What’d I say? What? So the Nippers are good at math. It’s a compliment. I didn’t say nothin’ bad. Pass the mashed potatoes.”

Buster Martin is a STUD!

World marathon record holder, Haile Gebrselassie, is pulling out of the marathon at this summer's Beijing Olympics. Gebrselassie is fearful Beijing's notorious smog will affect his asthma. Upon hearing of this news, 101 year old Buster Martin commented, "Use your inhaler and quit being a friggin wimp!"

Britain’s oldest employee, plumbing company worker Buster Martin is going to attempt to run the London Marathon, he’s already completed a half marathon. How does he plan on celebrating?:
“If I finish, I’ll do what I always do and have a pint and a fag, he said. “People ask what is my secret but I haven’t got one. They say fags and booze are bad for you—but I’m still here, aren’t I?”

He drinks, smokes, enjoys music and runs marathons, not bad for man who has lived for over a century! I'm seriously impressed. Check out the BBC News article and the excellent the Who cover of My Generation performed by his 3000 year old group the Zimmers.

Olympics Discrimination Drama

This is one of those "problems" where I don't think I'm going to like the solution:
Beijing Olympic organisers are discriminating by hiring only young, tall, slim and attractive women to present medals at the 2008 Games, a human rights group has charged....

First, are there really people out there who are "professionally qualified" to present medals at award ceremonies? Is that a good gig, and where can I sign up? I'm tall.
Second, doesn't Human Rights Watch have better priorities in China than protecting ugly, fat professional medal presenters?