The Canadian Olympic Team is certainly doing some things right.  This series of videos about their athletes giving everything they have to be successful in London are beautiful and inspirational.  Adam Van Koeverden is a heck of an inspiration himself.  The Canadian kayaker has won gold, silver and bronze medals in two Olympic Games and is looking to add to… [read article]

(2011 US World Team.  Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images)   The US Olympic Committee’s 2012 Media Summit ended this week and in covering the massive three-day event, it’s hard to know where to begin.  More than 100 of the top US Olympic athletes and hopefuls along with more than 450 members of the media came together to learn the most… [read article]

  “Ohhh yeah… lovely ladies I… wha??? What the?  Lovely.. fellas?  What does it all mean!!!!  Arrrrgghhhhh!!!!” Clearly, these are the greatest speedskating skinsuits ever made.  This image, posted a few days ago by former inline champ Matt Halbreich and his buddy Christian Abad, shows two skaters rocking what we can only describe as an ultra-HOTTTT speedskating racing suit. Sure, most people… [read article]

(Photo by Ronald Martinez/Getty Images)   The 2012 US Olympic Team Media Summit is in full swing, bringing 120 of the top athletes in the US together with over 400 members of the media for a three-day, super concentrated, Olympic mega-interview. Athletes from over twenty sports have flown to Dallas, TX to be poked, prodded, interviewed and photographed so that their… [read article]

(Michael Phelps and coach Bob Bowman on stage at 2012 Media Summit. Photo by Brandon Wade/Getty Images)   Stories, where do they come from, huh? Obviously in the years running up to an Olympic Games the athletes of the world are preparing and training and dreaming. However, before the Olympic loving public can enjoy stories of grief and gratitude, reporters,… [read article]

(Allyson Felix winning at Kawasaki Grand Prix, Photo by Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images)   Whooooo boy.  The US was looking nice today in Doha, Qatar at the first Samsung Diamond League meet of the 2012 season.  Today’s race was the first of the international series’ fourteen events and is particularly important for prep work and to provide a barometer for athletes leading… [read article]

  Amanda Beard has had a busy year.  In addition to releasing her best-selling biography and rearing her two-year-old son, the Olympic gold medalist has been competing and training to try and qualify for the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games in London.  If she makes the team it will be her 5th Olympic Games. People often wonder what the life of an Olympic… [read article]

(Photo by Bryn Lennon/Getty Images)   In what might be the most bizarre way possible to conclude the more than a decade long saga of doping allegations against 7-time Tour de France champion Lance Armstrong, the cyclist just told Men’s Journal that he was done fighting against accusations of performance enhancing drugs.  Only months after a federal investigation into illegal… [read article]

(Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)   Let’s do this! With just 78 days to go until the start of the 2012 Olympics, the Olympic Torch was lit today to begin its long journey from Greece to the Olympic stadium in London. The torch will travel through ancient sites in Greece before arriving in the UK in one week.  It will… [read article]

  It’s been a while since we’ve seen an extreme video that really made our jaws drop, but this video of Red Bull Air Race World Champion Kirby Chambliss piloting his Zivko Edge aerobatic plane is crazy intense. Chambliss has been competing in the Red Bull Air Race World Series since 2003, but he’s been doing aerial acrobatics since the 80′s…. [read article]