Olympics 2008
I know you all are desperately waiting for the results.
We thought it’d be easy to predict the top 5 winners. However, surprisingly, out of the 1073 entries we received, only one user could predict the exact order of the final medals tally at...
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Number of gay and lesbian athletes at the 2008 Games is on par with 2004 but includes only one man. In addition, there is one bisexual softball player.
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Do not sleep outdoors to save money at the Olympics. It is banned to “maintain public hygiene and the cultured image of cities.”
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Argentina’s Lionel Messi walks by Chinese elite police soldiers on his way to a training session at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Shanghai, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. Argentina will play Australia in a Group A first round men’s soccer match on Sunday.
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