Athletes Gear Up For Paralympics In 2012

The White House Calls Out Beck

By: amalgam80

Sen. Lindsay Graham was not the only one dissing the mentally unstable Glenn Beck today. On the official White House blog, Online Programs Director Jesse Lee calls out Fox News for perpetuating lies about President Obama's push to bring the Olympics to the city of Chicago. Lee wrotes that Fox News, and in particular Beck, contin

2 months ago

Blind sled dog set to retire

By: hunter420

Isobel the sled dog is hanging up her harness in Churchill, Man. The nine-year-old Siberian husky-malamute cross is set to retire in January. What makes her well-deserved rest remarkable is that she has been running for the past five years completely blind. She lost her vision but not her spirit, said owner Gerald Azure. Everything seemed ...

6 days ago

IOC Strips Men's 1500m Winner of Gold, 4 Others Disqualified

By: nathanielinbrazil

The International Olympic Committee stripped a gold medal from a Bahraini middle-distance runner Wednesday along with disqualifying four other Olympic athletes because of confirmed doping results at the 2008 Beijing Games. The Moroccan-born Ramzi was the only gold medalist from Beijing caught using performance-enhancing drugs. He had given ...

13 days ago

Obama Olympics pledge after America's treatment of foreigners is ...

By: dustgeer

President Barack Obama said he would use the Olympics to restore the image of the United States as an accessible and multi-ethnic nation after an impassioned pitch to win the 2016 Games for Chicago. The President told the International Olympic Committee (IOC), gathered today in Copenhagen to decide between his hometown, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid and ...

2 months ago