Olympic post-mortem
Personally, less viewing was more fun. It was a shame though, to see "home-cooking" in the Men's 500m short-track race, where a Canadian judge made a marginal call to disqualify ...Allan Sanderson: Consider the Options
Allan Sanderson tells his readers that TANSTAAFO (Olympics, not lunch). Whether to support the Games themselves or merely the city's official bid, the latter carrying a price tag of $50 ...Olympic Stew
A few random thoughts related to the Olympics: 400 Implosion for U.S. For the first time since WWII (excepting 1980), the U.S. will not medal in the men's 400 meters. ...Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
The Room for Debate blog at the New York Times runs a series of short opinion pieces today about the lack of snow in Vancouver at the opening of the ...Vancouver Olympic Blitz
Paragraph 4 of this from the Sports Business Daily is priceless. Can you say substitution effect? Or, as Craig Depken calls this particular example, the "skedaddle effect". Thanks to Craig ...Olympic-sized crowds?
Less than one week away from the opening ceremonies of the world's largest sporting event, the Beijing tourism bureau predicts that the city will attract nearly half a million visitors ...Going Juantorena
The current IAAF Track and Field World Championships and the 800m final inspired me to reflect on Alberto Juantorena' unusual 800m/400m gold medal "double" in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal ...About that economic impact...
Shocking news in a front page article in today's Washington Post: There aren't many tourists in Beijing this month. "Business is worse than at this time last year," said a ...Mega Event Update: Beijing Bird's Nest Stadium
Stop me if you have heard this one before... Remember all those claims about the continuing benefits that flow from the lavish sports facilities constructed for mega sporting events for ...
