New Zealand’s Sarah Walker managed a 4th in the women’s BMX final at the Beijing Olympics. Since she is presently the most successful Oceania women’s BMXer and apparently lives and trains in Australia, we better claim her as our own. Isn’t that what we do with all the good Kiwi’s. Channel 7 tried as much in presenting the Olympic BMX coverage.

Actually, how about a swap. We’ll take Sarah Walker and you can have have Russell Crowe back (and we will throw in the South Sydney Rabbitoughs).

I would like to be able to run the contest of the Swedish Women’s Soccer team vs. the Polish Women’s Volleyball team in context (ie. pictures from the pitch/court), but there isn’t a lot around for the Swedes. So here’s a little gallery of a few of the Swedish Women’s Soccer team just for you to enjoy (and by you, I mean Glenn!).

Oh, and while I think of it, here is their Olympic team roster.

No, it’s not the opener to a bad joke.

This one is more about much discussion that has been around the traps today after SBS’s Olympic broadcast last night that featured an women’s indoor volleyball game between Poland and China. The point of the discussion….are these the hottest women in the entire Olympic competition this year? So far, they have my vote, but there is a suggestion the Swedish women’s soccer team will give them a run for their money.

Judge for yourself…

Oh, and there is a bit more information on the team at Polish Blog.

The LOLCATS aren’t going to be left out of the Olympic competition, even if their equipment is invisible. Look for them at the Opening Ceremony in Beijing.

moar funny pictures

I hadn’t seen any footage or even heard much about the 4X World Championship final until I read Jared Graves’ Blog. All I knew was that he had come in 4th and there was a bit of bad luck involved. But when you watch the replay below, I’m sure you’ll agree that it was more than bad luck that kept Graves from the podium.

I hope for Jared’s sake, he is allowed to get down to business when he hits the Olympic BMX track.

I caught the UCI Supercross from Denmark on ESPN today (yeah, I know…old news). I thought it was worthy of a post. Watch Graves through the second straight. He overjumps one of the doubles and completely misses the backside. In the interview on ESPN after the race, he said he is going to work on it for the Olympics. If he can stick it there, he will own the gold medal position on the podium.

Hmmm…it appears they want that Olympic gold. In fact the mighty USA want to pick up the BMX Olympic gold medal so much, they built a replica of the Beijing SX BMX track at their training centre. Well hopefully the Aussies, or any other nation for that matter, can knock them off their perch. I wonder how much of the money for the track came from GT, Red Bull or other interested private entities??