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What exactly is a Fortnight?  And, why do I care?  Well, first, a definition.  The fortnight is a unit of time equivalent to fourteen days. The word derives from the Old English feorwertyne niht, meaning “fourteen nights”.[1][2] (taken from Wikipedia).  
Now, why do I really care?  Well, if you are a fan of tennis, as I am (so I am sure BrettCajun [...]

It seems like the most controversial of the Olympic events - women’s gymnastics in particular - has come to a grand ending.  Just to recap - the Chinese women took the gold over the Americans and Romania made a surprise bronze medal showing.  While there were minor scoring questions during the team competition and the [...]

Well, the women’s gymnastics controversy thickens yesterday as the apparatus finals began.  Alicea Sacramone, coming back from a disastrous performance in the team finals, was a medal contender in the vault finals.  (NBC did an interview with her after the team finals that just about broke your heart…)  Anyway, I digress.  So, Alicea is first [...]

I have been asked by Jenny on the Block to address the controversies surrounding the Beijing games - the biggest of which is Age-Gate.  So here goes…
Age-Gate - we will never really know.  See, here’s the story.  The Olympics has a rule that all female gymnasts must turn 16 years old in the year of [...]

The women’s gymnastic team came home with the Silver medal.  There was definitely a fierce competition between the Americans and the Chinese, but the Americans fell shortly - slightly.  Disappointment was definitely apparent on the faces of the American girls.
But, I couldn’t help but be happy for the Chinese women, and all of the other [...]

Now, I know that the headline doesn’t say what they won - but that’s the point.  I am writing this post as the US Men’s Gymnastics team is finishing it’s 5th (of 6) rotations in the team finals.  See, the thing about the men’s gymnastics team is that it had all of the expectations that [...]

Today was the first day of the men’s competition.  Here’s how it works…
The teams compete in 3 divisional rounds.  The top 8 teams make it to the team final.  The top 32(?) individual men make it to the All Around finals.  The top 8 on each apparatus make it to the individual apparatus finals.  So, [...]

Well, it looks like I was on to something last night night while watching the US men during their podium training - Morgan Hamm withdrew from the competition on Thursday with an ankle injury.  It is unclear who will take his spot on the US team.

So, they call the one-time practice allowed in the olympic arena “podium training”.  Well, I have been watching the men’s gymnastics podium training for over an hour now and I haven’t seen one gymnast rehearse getting on a podium!  But, I have seen the US men’s team practice on the parallel bars, the high bar [...]

NBC announced today that they will stream live the US men’s and women’s one chance to practice in the olympic arena before the competition begins.  The men will be practicing tonight, Tuesday, August 5 at midnight and the women will practice on Thursday morning (Wednesday late night) at 1:30pm.  To catch the action live click [...]