Comments on: Olympic Urban Legends Revealed #1

By: Denmark at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Red tape

Denmark at the 2006 Winter Olympics at Red tape — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:18:49 +0000

[...] Olympic Legends Revealed #1 [...]

By: Eldric IV

Eldric IV — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:30:57 +0000

I believe the “has been” portion of the rule was to rule out the “I just quit my job so I am not a mechanic right now” technicality.

By: LV

LV — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:00:52 +0000

Oops. Screwed up my italics there.

By: LV

LV — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:00:05 +0000

If the original rule banning Pearce from competition banned “who is or has beeni by trade or employment for wages et cetera et cetera”, shouldn’t it have not mattered that he became a salesman by the 1931 Diamond Challenge? He still had been supported as a carpenter. Seems like maybe it was less that he was a salesman and more that Lord Dewar told the board of governors that Pearce was competing and they better smile about it.

Enjoyable work as always.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:28:31 +0000

The “World Record” thing in Cool Runnings always annoyed me, since Bobsled isn’t run on a consistent course. Calgary’s course was different than Sarajevo’s course, which was different than Albertville’s course. You could get the COURSE record, but there’s no such thing as a world record.

The Jamaicans got plenty of play here in Toronto back in the day, probably because there’s an enormous Carribean community in the city.