That is so awesome! Great picture too.

jane!

that is a great forking picture – and i get so mad when the news includes spoilers without a spoiler alert, dammit.

I don’t care about a medal, I want a body like that!

Hey Jane!
I remember this time every 4 years: Soon, there will be no Olympics to watch – what will I do?

Evening. Have to say, even though I am not an Olympics junkie, that was really cool.

My body didn’t look like that before I had the baby. No fair.

Hey Jane!

At least my local NPR station tells me to cover my ears…

My body has never looked like that (even leaving aside the obvious gender differences).

You probably didn’t have a staff of eight helping you work out, eat right, and stretch, either.

Parts of resistance stretching are really very painful. That’s all I got.

Great picture too.

umm – yeah.

“don’t have to put an age limit on your dreams” – how cool is that?

Down boy.

I got to watch the men’s saber finals, and just as I thought, totally cool.

Well, I know what the Gynmastics Federation will be doing: designing yet another complex, inaccessible system for scoring Olympic gymnastics that includes no perfect tens, “incompetent judging”* and bizarre tie-breaking procedures because medals can’t be shared. Also, carbon-dating for child athletes.

After Athens, you’d think they’d have learned. Apparently not.

*Bela, not me.

(hiya, Jane!)

Sssshhhhhhhhhhhhhh, McSturgis may be lurking.

Jose Antonio Vargas (WaPo0 Politix and Tech reporter) chatz tomorrow about both campaigns’ online efforts, at noon eastern. Questions accepted anytime.

I’d settle for that.

Hi Teddy!

Hmmmm. Carbon dating only works on materials older than 500 years. Don’t really think it would be helpful here. Do think they need to do something about the exploitation of child athletes though. It is not just China.

OT: Dave Matthews’ sax player just died from injuries stemming from an ATV accident.

I have been waiting for Bob Costas to shoot tranquilizer darts into Mr. Karolyi, who just gets progressively more annoying.

Doesn’t mean gymnastics isn’t screwed up, but still…

More time for resistance stretching?

I think you could use a medal.

Yet another reason to hate ATVs.

accident was in june per the ap

Mr. Karolyi is a big part of the problem I alluded to earlier. 60 Minutes did a piece on his training camp for young gymnasts several years ago. Brutal is the kindest word I can think of and these were grade schoolers.

Ms. Sey would agree with you…,

Wow, the American women kicked butt on the balance beam.

still track and field on the west coast

OT – Rachel Maddow gets her own show on MSNBC to replace Dan Abrams Neocon Apologist.

Don’t get me started about the 3 hour west coast delay.

I’m into the equestrian and gymnastics…here’s the gold medal dressage ride…from earlier today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3–mgg7QL8

I won’t be a spoiler but watch it if you can.

Hey LS. Bad link I think.

Try this Newton..:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3–mgg7QL8

Still a bad link…dagnabitt…

Go to the “bad” link, and go to dressage olympics 2008 anke van grunsvegen or however her name is spelled…you’ll see it if you type in “dressage olympics 2008 anke”..

Must be me – no dice on that one either.
I wondered where the equestrian events went…

I thought Abrahams was a network VP and this gig was temp

i think that is the offical story

Abrahams will remain at the network, but without his own show. Maddow now takes over permanently in that slot.

I heard it long before the gig started

I wonder if he’ll take over Russert’s Meet the Press???? Or will it be Chuckie Todd…?

Probably be some one like Gwen Ifill

ooooh, diving on the west coast

You’re not entered?

Between Dara Torres and 33 year old gymnast Oksana Chusivitina (Germany; born in USSR) who took silver on the vault, the old vets did OK at these games.

Lots of cheering for those two at La Casa Peterr.

ooooh, diving on the west coast

Feel free to throw a rolled-up sock at the Bulgarian judge…

had to move to oregon and could not compete in bejing

Dara Torres’ achievement is tremendous, but as some have pointed out, she is fortunate to be able to focus full time on her training. She works _very_ hard at it.
It’s great that she has come away with an individual medal. I hope that she decides to retire on her laurels. I;m concerned for her health – she looks drawn.

had to move to oregon and could not compete in bejing

Doesn’t Phil Knight have his own Olympic team up there?

that sounds so much nicer than the reality of not being anywhere near good enough to compete

That, and FDL is probably on the “do not blog” list in Beijing. Maybe even other lists, too . . .

“I’m sorry, what did you say your name was? . . . Hmmmm . . . I don’t see it on the list of athletes anywhere. If you’d just step over here, into this little waiting area, I’ll call my supervisor. . . And pay no attention to the bars on the door — it’s just a little architectural whimsy for our most honored guests.”

Dugg

thank you, ThomasMiffin

that sounds so much nicer than the reality of not being anywhere near good enough to compete

dozens of flawless dives into the lake notwithstanding…

the bulgarian judge would be watching it all from the 2 way mirror, wearing that dayam white linen suit that turns transparent when it gets wet (innocent look)

dugg and thanks for the reminder neuro

Early night for me. Have to go back to work tomorrow. A delightful “faculty retreat” (all day faculty meeting) awaits me. I will need all my energy just to survive. Take care and enjoy.

that sounds so much nicer than the reality of not being anywhere near good enough to compete

think London – 2012 !!

g’nite dr (pause) dick

Suz, you know the only reason he scores you so bad is because he likes you. He’s like a 3rd grade boy, emotionally.

nite Doc.

The WaPo has a story up for tomorrow’s paper on another lesser-known event at the Olympics.

I think my mother could do quite well in this one, though she might have to knock over her sister to get the gold.

unfortunately, my fake knee would cause the metal detector at the airport to beep and the tsa would stick me in a little room (see peterr’s #51)

details….

besides, you could meet some, er, *interesting* new people…

i always played bad cop better than victim.

I need to sign off. OT, and sadly, I want to give a shout out to my dear departed cat Ray…

(((mp and ray)))

i’m so sorry mp

g’nite

Ya know…

I am 46, have four kids, ages ranging from 23 to 11, and I weight train and do an aerobic activity at least 11/2 hours, 4 to 6 days a week. I ran 10ks into my early thirties, and even ran up to 4 miles per day during my third pregnancy at age 33.

With all my activity and genetics, I am a very healthy, muscle-y 5′6”/160 lbs at age 46.

But there is NO WAY IN HELL I would ever pose in a fucking bikini, no matter how skinny I get.

You can’t beat genetics, folks.

Orientation on Thursday for new grad students. Wow, another start to the academic year… again!

Ya didn’t even attempt the ‘good cop’ role…? ;-)

(((Ray)))

i always played bad cop better than victim.

is that what put you over the top in your FDL Mod interview? *g*

i just never was able to pull it off as good as bad cop, ct. i guess i’m just really in touch with my inner bitch with a badge.

Suz probably showed up for the interview wearing a rugby shirt…

No one would dare argue the point with ya, eh? ;-)

then what explains lurk?

hey

(((Ray))) (((MP)))

Get back to the 10Ks. Nothing rips off fast faster than serious running.

if i have a baby, will my body look like Dara’s

mine sure as hell didn’t

hey kirk – how is sf tonight? raining and windy tonight on the oregon coast. i am so enjoying the weather up here.

Our Veep pick?
Biden Prepares 50,000-Word Acceptance Speech

In an indication that he expects to be Barack Obama’s vice-presidential pick, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del) has begun writing a 50,000-word acceptance speech, aides to the senator confirmed today.

The address, which Mr. Biden has been working on around the clock, is an abridged version of a 200,000-word acceptance speech that Mr. Biden wrote when he ran for President in 1988.

Also, an hour and a half 4 to 6? Impressive.

i think joe is a red herring (or a bright shiny thong as lhp would say), meant to distract us from the choice

Jane recognized immediately that Suzanne was exactly the person she needed to keep the Lurkmeister in line?

rats. having a baby seems so much easier than exercise [ducks]

it actually was (visibly) raining this AM- real water falling down from the sky (as opposed to the usual big sponge of fog wiping over everything). This afternoon got up to 70ish with sun. FOr SF in August, quite nice….

OC sounds lovely… so glad you are enjoying your new state…

i tend to think that lurk is around to keep me in line (laughing)

so, does that make him the good cop?

that sounds so much nicer than minder (laughing)

all kidding aside, lurk does a magnificent job around here

During Ian’s “Who Would Represent You Best As VP?” post, the name of Barbara Jordan came up (h/t wobbly).
Yeah, Constitutional Swoon, but besides the obvious (Congresswoman Jordan no longer being alive), there’s one other problem – Congresswoman Jordan was a Democrat.

I thought I was going to leave the rain in AZ and have some summer…… Ya’d think it was already fall and starting the 300 days of rain ……. this is the AZ version of Oregon whine….. where is the sun?

((MP and Ray))

I love your tale of the brothers Bob and Ray. RIP Ray

we gotta watch out for dino’s in the vp slot for sure newton. i worry about vp much more after seeing what darth did to the slot.

hey margot

My theory is to pick a bad a*s VP which will prevent the wackos from doing anything that we do not talk or think about to Obama…… a BIG prevention tool…. a firewall…

such as who?

It’s not the VP slot I’m worried about.
I want a bitterly partisan Liberal Democrat for a President who swings a scythe and goes to war with the Republicans. And I would be pleased as punch with a “warm bucket of spit” in the VP slot.

Go along, get along is over.

obama has not shown any sign of a willingness to go to the mattresses, as it were. do you think his vp slot will be the person that plays bad cop to his good cop?

too much Oregon whine tonight…. someone that would be considered a boogie man to the Repugs…… Webb, Feingold, Wes Clark…..

murtha?

Kuchinich?

I think he is older than McBush and Murtha has already said that McBush is too old to be Prez…… Howard Dean can and does kick a*s…. since they have tried to feminized every Democrat….. grrr

Oh…. Paul Hacket …..

Wexler!

I tell ya, it hit me today when the gabbers were blabbing about a return to Illinois for Obama and his veep on Saturday.

Isn’t Hillary originally from Illinois?

-G

scurrying over to wiki to find out

yeap. A native of Illinois, Hillary Rodham first attracted national attention in 1969 for her remarks as the first student to deliver the commencement address at Wellesley College.

yep

Makes on wonder.

-G

music upstairs

Simple, ignore chronological age and examine whether the athlete has fused epiphyses certain joints by either CAT-scans or X-Rays. If those joints are unfused, they could be permanently damaged, thus a “slow bloomer” would not be eligible until they bloom…and are safer. Of course, younger athletes with “double jointedness” (unfused epiphyses) are more limber, as well. But by repeatedly over extending their joints they risk permanent impairment.

Then there is gold medal marathoner Constantina Tomescu from Romania…age 38. And one of the British Equestrian silver medallist John Whitaker is 53. But Equestrian seems to be an event where age really has no boundary.
Whitaker oldest Brit…but is decades younger than some riders