Anyone remember this idiot? Ashley Gill-Webb was at the final of the men’s 100m in London at the 2012 Olympics when he decided to throw a bottle at the runners getting ready to start the race.  Not only is he super classy, Gill-Webb is also super lucky because his bottle-tossing perch happened to be directly beside world champion Dutch… [read article]

  While skateboarding is not yet an Olympic sport, two-time Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White still got to come enjoy the show at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.  And it looks like the 12-time X-Games gold medalist definitely gets to enjoy the VIP Olympic experience. In this video, shot on, what else, GoPro cams, White not only gets… [read article]

(via Wikipedia)   In this report from London: Lochte v. Phelps volume 1, the Wieber fever hits a setback, and two awesome new Olympians to get to know – swimmer Lea Neal and gold medalist skeet shooter Kim Rhode.   Welcome back to the DailyHouse Sports Show! Once the London Olympics end, the mainstream coverage stops – but the sports still… [read article]

  I’ve thought for years that the Olympic sports world desperately needed its own version of SportsCenter. There should be a place to tune in and get quick, interesting, and fun pieces of news that could get you up to speed the other 3 years and 11 months.  The idea of doing a ‘network’ has been a goal of mine for… [read article]

Like everyone in the free world, we are super pumped that the Olympics are about to start – like, this weekend about to start.  That’s right, this Friday the world will tune in as the 2012 Summer Olympics kick off with the opening ceremonies.  And even though NBC owns the rights to the Games time footage, every conceivable media outlet… [read article]

(Photo by LOCOG via Getty Images) Well, heck.  It appears sometimes the Olympic flame does go out during its long journey from Greece to its temporary home in the host nation.  Yesterday, The Telegraph posted this video of an ill-fated adventure in which the Olympic flame, which has traveled more than 50 days as part of the Olympic Torch Relay, was… [read article]

(Photo by Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)   There are about thirty days until the start of the track events at the 2012 Olympic Games and Fastest Man in the History of Ever™ Usain Bolt has recently suffered two big losses to teammate Yohan Blake. Bolt was beaten head to head by Blake in both the 100m and 200m finals at the… [read article]

(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) (In case this embedded video gets yanked, we have a link to the NBC Olympics video below) Nastia Liukin came up short in her attempt to comeback for the 2012 Olympic Games, but she had an amazing run. In the last event of her career, the 2012 Olympic trials, the ’08 Olympic champ had a… [read article]

(Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)   16-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps announced that he was dropping the 200m freestyle event from his program in London, meaning the international superstar will only be competing in seven (only!) events at the 2012 Games.  The announcement was made through Phelps’ coach, Bob Bowman’s twitter account earlier today: Phelps originally qualified to compete in… [read article]

(Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)   If you haven’t heard of her yet, you will.  Gabby Douglas is the 16-year-old phenom who is rocketing to the top of the gymnastics world and just upset 2011 World All-Around Champion Jordyn Wieber at the Olympic Trials. Douglas is on the perfect track to be the woman to beat heading into London. Over… [read article]