Olympics Mosaic_ Canada Wins First Gold on Trampoline

With so much going on at once, it is virtually impossible to keep track, yet alone blog about the 2012 London Olympics. And, since we are in Providence, Rhode Island, (not where we're really at) we are virtually the last people in the world to see the Olympics live.

But, we will try our best here:

1) In the women's trampoline final, Rosannagh MacLennan, 23, (pictured above) won Canada's first gold medal thanks in part to a hop from China's Huang Shanshan, who finished with silver. Another Chinese trampolinist He Wenna got bronze. And, Canada's Karen Cockburn finished fourth. MacLennan cried as she heard the playing of "O Canada," the country's national anthem.

2) An Aryan white supremacist in the United States boasted of his attraction to the very gorgeous Czech Republic beach volleyball players Kristina Kolocova (center, left) and Marketa Slukova (center right) who upset the Brazilian duo of Maria Antonelli and Talita Antunes yesterday in Olympic play. The fringe right-wing extremist will undoubtedly have to reconcile the fact that the Czech team will next face the American duo of Jennifer Kessy and April Ross.

3) Iranian men's weightlifter Saed Mohammadpourkarkaragh, 19,  has perhaps assured himself of having the longest name of any athlete at the games, but gold in his event went to Ilya Ilyin of Kazakhstan, a country with a reputation of long surnames of their own.

4) Chinese women's diver He Zi, 21, has perhaps assured herself of having the shortest name of any athlete at the games and she will be taking a silver medal home too; we were amused when the NBC announcer said the diver, quite an attractive athlete, did not have a boyfriend because she doesn't have time for that. Her teammate Wu Minixa won the gold, while Laura Sanchez Soto of Mexico came in the third today. Italian diver Tania Lagnotto finished a respectable close fourth. We were also impressed with American diver Cassidy Krug (pictured below), a Stanford University alum and one of our favorite American athletes; she finished seventh in an event that featured many amazing dives.

5) We conclude with another water sport as the United States beat Italy 9-6 in women's water polo in a quarter-final match. Melissa Seidemann, who like Cassidy Krug is a graduate of Stanford University, had a hat trick in the win.

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