Summer Olympian

Did you get your mother a card and some flowers for her special day? Well here’s another gift from the…

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While your watching the your favorite athlete at the Beijing Olympics this year the cameras will inevitably flash to his/her nervous parents. Maybe one of them has left their seat out of anxiety, maybe one has their eyes covered, or maybe they’re…

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No one would ever accuse American swimming phenom Michael Phelps of not being able to prove a point. Sunday’s Boston Globe lengthy profile of Phelps begins with a quote: “‘I’m far, far from being a morning person,’…

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The 2008 U.S. Softball team was announced last week. It’s a fearsome squad. 10 of its 15 members return from 2004’s all-conquering fast-pitchers. The team, including its three alternates, owns 18 Olympic golds, 10 collegiate National Championships and myriad Pan Am Games…

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Passport information for 437 British Broadcasting Corporation journalists, presenters, translators, and other staff was stolen from the BBC offices in early March, the Guardian reports. What trait did those dispossessed share (other than being BBC…

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This week at SummerOlympian.com sees a brief look at the field for the XXIX Olympiad. Nine teams have qualified for the Games thus far, with continental tournament placers from Argentina, the United States, Russia, Lithuania, Iran, Angola and Australia in. Defending champions Spain…

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My personal Olympics villain has emerged.  It’s a multi-headed animal full of America-disparaging quotes and replete with shady performance-enhancing rumors. They’re cocky, they…

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Which athlete is going to unexpectedly steal your heart at the Beijing Olympics? Our guess is Great Britain’s 13-year-old diving champion Tom Daley.…

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The Olympic torch was lit yesterday in Olympia, Greece site of the Temple of Hera and the legendary birth of the Olympic Games. A bombastic ceremony of Greek actors in ancient costume lit the torch and passed it along while Jacques…

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Ever wonder what Harvard University thinks about the Beijing Olympics? You mean that angle never even crossed your mind? Well we wondered and thankfully last Saturday the Harvard Graduate School of Public Design held a day-long symposium…

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Frenchman Alain Bernard has had five competitive swims so far this week at the 2008 European Swimming Championships held in Eindhoven, Holland – Two first round heats,…

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China. Violence. Tibet. Rioting. Dalai Lama. Protest. Gunfire. Blame. Deaths. Freedom. Responsible. Beijing. Summer Olympics. Thuggish Regime. Boycott.

If you’ve watched the news or read a paper over the last fews days we are sure…

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The United States Men’s U-23 Soccer Team booked their place in Beijing Thursday night with an assured 3-0 victory against northern rivals Canada. 18-year old phenom Freddy Adu led the way by scoring two goals, setting up another, and infusing his teammates…

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Sing along everyone with The Hollies and seemingly every prospective Beijing Olympian: “All I Need is the Air That I Breath”.

You’ve read the stories here at the summerolympian.com, or in sources as the…

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One month ago Australian Eamon Sullivan smashed the eight-year old 50m freestyle swimming world record, the aquatic version of the 100m dash, lowering the record time from 21.64 to 21.56. From there the accusations, trashtalking, and sharply barbed slurs began.

Two-time…

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