We must have missed the part where they took Upchuck’s Olympic medal away for a little while, but then took it off Valerie Adams and gave it back to Upchuck again.
So who do you think is responsible for this sterling bit of journalism?
You get zero guesses, of course.
Eric Young has gotten off the hook for sledging out the Beast of Belarus:
Award-winning journalist Eric Young has satisfied his bosses with an apology on Twitter for an expletive-laden tweet calling for an Olympics drug cheat to hand over her shot put gold medal.
Bosses at Sky News Australia, who employ Young as a broadcaster on Prime TV, said there was no further discipline for his angry comments on the social networking site last month.
The veteran reporter has not tweeted since August 14 when he caused a stir with his comments directed at Belarusian Nadzeya Ostapchuk, who was stripped of her gold medal and the prize awarded to Kiwi Valerie Adams.
His tweet that attracted criticism called Ostapchuk a “f***ing cheating cow” and told her to “hand it [the gold medal] over you b****”.
“Sky News views these matters very seriously. Senior management has spoken with Eric and the matter is now closed,” director of news and programs Ian Ferguson said today.
Young declined to comment when contacted by APNZ.
People are rebelling against silly tax laws.
Wealthy French are looking to move overseas because of it. They wish to steal 75% of income above a million Euros.
Olympic hero Usain Bolt refuses to compete again in the UK until the UK changes its tax law.
And despite setting a new world record during the Olympics, the 25 year-old, who earns an estimated $20m (£12.7m) a year, says his UK-based fans won’t see him compete until the tax laws are loosened.
Bolt had not raced in the UK for three years prior to this year’s Olympics. He only agreed to run in London after HMRC announced a tax amnesty for competitors.
In 2010 Bolt pulled out of the Aviva London Grand Prix because of his stance on UK tax, instead deciding to compete in Paris – for which he was paid $250,000.
Amazing. The UK Revenue changed the rules for the Olympics? Lucky for some people. Next they’ll be handing out tax breaks to make films to subsidise “the Arts”. Cough.
You all know what a snoozefest I found the Olympics but here is a gem of a tweet I thought I would share with you as it explains the silliness of the taxation and welfare distribution system.
Surprisingly simple from a tax accountant. We don’t take a percentage of medals and give them to non-medal winners so why do we do it to people who are leaders in business or hard workers?
Eric Young is in trouble..though I can;t see why, he simply spoke the truth, perhaps in intemperate language, but it was the truth nonetheless:
Veteran broadcaster Eric Young has been scolded for an expletive-laden tweet calling for Olympics drug cheat Nadzeya Ostapchuk to hand over her shot put gold medal.
Young, who was contracted by Sky Television for its Olympics coverage on Prime, was pressured into deleting the Twitter comment, which he posted last night when it was announced New Zealand Valerie Adams was awarded the gold medal.
Young’s bosses are still deciding on whether Young should be disciplined for his tweet, which was directed at the Belarussian shot putter who was stripped of her gold medal after testing positive for an anabolic steroid.
“Dear Nadzeya,” the tweet read. “You f***ing cheating cow. Hand it over you b****. Love, New Zealand.”
After later deleting it, Young, who tweets under the username @RealEricYoung to 1500 followers, posted: “Sorry if some of you didn’t appreciate my passionate language but the truth is Val had her moment stolen by a cheat.”
I’m not a big fan of the Olympics, but I have found a damn good reason to support them, it is a celebration of everything the left wing hates:
The Olympics were an unapologetic festival of competitiveness, pursuit of individual excellence, almost superhuman self-discipline, and uncompromising reward for merit. They were, in other words, a celebration of all those aspects of the human condition which the political fashion and educational ideology of the past 40 years has attempted to denigrate. And the country loved it. Indeed, it was ecstatically untroubled by the fact that some people – who were exceptionally talented and phenomenally dedicated – won, and some other people, with considerable courage and no dishonour, lost.
Just a thought: I wonder if this is why, notwithstanding Ed Miliband’s effusion in our pages, the rest of the Labour front bench have been largely invisible during the events. Was there something about the unashamed glorification of personal achievement – of winning because you were the very best that it was possible to be – that made them feel uncomfortable?
The Left generally has not known quite how to position itself in all this. There was some rather mean-minded bleating among the Left-wing commentariat about “elitism” when there turned out to be a disproportionate number of private school people among the winners – but why should this surprise anybody? Since the collapse of standards in state education there have been a disproportionate number of private school people succeeding in every walk of life. Which brings us to the “lessons to be learnt”.
David Cameron has got characteristically bogged down in a squabble with the teaching unions over whose fault it is that sport has declined so much in state schools. Accusations about the Government selling off playing fields and abandoning targets for mandatory PE have been flung across the barricades only to be countered with evidence of the teachers’ refusal to supervise out-of-hours activities.
It was all hugely unedifying and utterly beside the point. The “lesson to be learnt” is much bigger than the availability of sports facilities, although that – and the attitude of teachers towards competitive sport – certainly does come into it.
Forget performance enhancing drugs, how about genetically modified athletes? Forget the pretence…let’s have the Freak Olympics with no restrictions at all…it would be freakin’ awesome:
After Ye Shiwen shocked the Olympics with her performance in the 400 meter individual medley, swimming the last 50 meters faster than Ryan Lochte, the men’s champion in the event, a long-time American coach ominously hinted that perhaps a new kind of performance enhancement had arrived on the athletic scene.
“If there is something unusual going on in terms of genetic manipulation or something else, I would suspect over eight years science will move fast enough to catch it,” John Leonard, the American executive director of the World Swimming Coaches Association, said.
It’s important to note that there is no evidence that Ye engaged in any doping practice, let alone something as new and high-tech as genetic manipulation.
But, the fact that genetic manipulation was even on the table or in the ether as the example Leonard gave in his accusation is remarkable. So I set out to find out how scientifically plausible it might be for Ye — or any athlete — to enhance his or her performance with current gene doping technology.
The Herald asks if there is a limit to athletic performance…there is to a point…no one can run 100m in zero seconds…but there must be a theoretical limit to genetics. Technology will impact on times and results hugely…track technology, shoe technology, swimsuit technology.
We once thought no-one could run a mile in less than four minutes – and yet the current world record stands at three minutes, 43 seconds. So will records keep tumbling as people get fitter and technology takes off? Or is there a limit to human performance?
For physiologists, human performance is limited by the processes involved in energy production and muscle contraction.
Performance in a 100m sprint depends on many processes, including the rate at which energy can be produced and used, the speed at which electrical signals can reach muscles, and the rate at which calcium can initiate muscle contraction and relaxation.
By comparison, marathon performance is dependent on the ability to use oxygen, store and use fat and glycogen for energy, and to keep muscle calcium levels high to maintain contractions. In hot conditions, the ability to sweat is also important for endurance performance.
Based on current knowledge, there should be a limit to these processes, and therefore a limit to human performance. But athletic performance does not depend solely on physiological processes, and improvements in other factors have helped us to far exceed the limits previously placed on human performance.
I really want to see if some can run 100m in 4 seconds…but I suspect we are only ever going to get there if we get rid of the facade of drug free Olympics…let’s have the Freak Olympics where there are no rules…may the best chemist win…it would be truly awesome.
The Herald’s standards really have fallen. This was a headline yesterday:
The leftwing pommy rag can be funny sometimes…like this headline about Ann Romney’s horse:
Short of mocking Shetland ponies over their lack of stature or laying into zebras for their failure to make a significant contribution to the world of equine culture, Ann Romney’s horse Rafalca was always going to struggle to match the sheer incredulity that her husband managed to provoke on his recent overseas trip.
And in the event – the event in question being the individual dressage – the 15-year-old bay Oldenburg mare acquitted herself rather well. True, she and her rider, Jan Ebeling, may have been left well behind by Britain’s Carl Hester, Germany’s Dorothee Schneider and Denmark’s Anna Kasprzak but, by Romney standards, her performance was a positive triumph.
Never for a second during her seven-minute performance did a hoof stray dangerously mouthwards, nor did she do anything at all to offend or upset the host nation. From the moment she entered the Greenwich Park equestrian arena at 12.15 on Thursday afternoon, the most famous political horse since Caligula toyed with making a consul of Incitatus seemed in her element.
