Monday Morning (USA Time) Olympic Tweets: Shawn Johnson is Wearing Hot Pants

 

Wow! We had a real hard time loading these images! They are of: a) Misha the Bear, the mascot of the 1980 Moscow Olympics (we seem to be popular in Russia for some reason) b) Icelandic handball star Arnor Atlason;. Iceland beat the host Great Britain in men's handball today by a score of 41-24 and c) American gymnast Shawn John who won gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics; she is not competing in London, but she has been watching gymnastics events in the stands at the Olympics.

As a Turkish-American, it was interesting to see one Turkish newspaper "The Daily Hurriyet" express optimism as Turkish women's sprinter Nevin Yanit, 26, who competes in hurdles finished first in her preliminary race yesterday, while another Turkish newspaper "Today's Zaman" was expressing pessimism as a tweet from the publication pointed that Turkey has yet to medal at the Olympics so far.

 

So, here are some of the things we have learned about the games on Twitter today; they do or may contain SPOILER ALERTS!

 1) @dominquedawes (Dominique Dawes): "Victoria Komova of RUS is up and ready and she definitely wants to redeem herself after the silver in AA."

2) @AlisonMitchell: "Got a feeling in my stomach like I used to before school. And, I'm not even competing! #goBeth #gymnastics" (This tweet is in reference to British gymnast Beth Tweedle, a contender for the bars event).

3) @bradplumer: "A few Olympic rule changes explain why so many gymnasts have been falling on their faces."

4) @nprnews: "Let's catch p: U.S. women's basketball Blowout, and Maroney's vault woes" (This is in reference to American gymnast Makayla Maroney falling on her second vault).

5) @ISROlympics2012: "Eran and Gideon in 11th place after 8 races" (This is talking about the Israeli men's sailing team of Gideon Kilger and Eran Sela. A later tweet from American tv reporter Christiane Amanpour said that Vojdan Shaherkan, a 16-year old female athlete from Saudi Arabia, one of Israel's main rivals had provided the first win for a female athlete for her country as she upset Melissa Mojica of Puerto Rico in judo. But, the result is not expected to change women's sporting rights in the kingdom.)

6) @shawnJohson (Shawn Johnson): "Hot pants! We're color coordinated."

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com 

http://timesofisrael.com 

http://www.todayszaman.com 

http://www.dominiquedawes.com 

http://www.shawnjohnson.net 

Quote of the Day/Week-Nastia Liukin

Today, we get back to quoting American athletes who won either or both gold and silver medals at the summer Olympics with a quote from Nastia Liukin, 22. Amazingly enough, her mother, former Soviet/Russian rhythmic gymnast Anna Kotchava, 42, is only six weeks older than me. Her father Valeri Liukin, 45, a former Soviet/Kazakh gymnast who won gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics is Nastia's coach.

According to the May 15th edition of "The Inqusitir," Nastia Liukin, a native of Texas, intends to compete at the Olympic women's gymnastics team trials in San Jose, Calif., on June 28th. Those trials will determine which gymnasts get to compete at the 2012 London Olympics.

Here is Nastia's quote; we presume it's in regards to the 2008 Beijing Olympics (Shawn Johnson was one of her Olympic teammates) where she won gold:

"I think it's going to be a little more exciting and a little more confusing."

Image of the Day/Week-Vanilla Latte

Today, we feature an image of something we all love at the office here in Oshkosh, Wisc., (not really where we are at), and that is the vanilla latte. We usually prefer the hot vanilla lattes when the weather is cold or in the morning, and conversely the cold version goes better when the weather is hot or in the afternoon.

A great place to have either version of the beverage for those in the Tarheel State is the Green Bean in downtown Greensboro, NC, an independent coffee shop, which actually has its own blog! (www.thegreenbeancoffeehouse.blogspot.com).

SIDEBAR: We just adored this story in today's edition of "The Onion," a satirical fake news publication which once got in trouble for a story that said American women's Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson from Des Moines, Iowa,www.theonion.comwww.greensborobean.comwww.thegreenbeancoffeehouse.blogspot.com had died from complications due to a gymnastics accident. Of course, we should point out to anyone not reading this carefully, that Johnson is alive and well. Oh, back to what we were talking about; here is the headline: 'Human Feet Originally Used for Walking, Anthropologists Report' the story cites 'sources' from Oxford, England in its current 'story.'

Top 10 Favorite Songs from John Lennon

Since yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the murder of John Lennon, we thought it would be neat to list our ten favorite songs by him. The fact that our intern Javier from Honduras* is inept at remembering song titles made this a bit challenging, but I'd like to think we pulled it off.

We wonder if some of these songs are played on Oldies KVID in Russellville, Ark., but Javier had to arrange an interview with Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson in her hometown of West Des Moines, Iowa, so he is not able to confirm that and we are too busy (or lazy) to fool with, really.

Amazingly enough, Yoko Ono--- of all people, follows us on Twitter (this true!). Ono herself chose "Oh My Love" as her favorite Lennon song for a 'lists' issue in "Rolling Stone."

*-Javier is not an actual person. The joke is that if something is factually wrong in the contents of this blog, we blame him! BTW, since he is fictional, he is not interviewing any Olympic gymnasts.

Here are our favorite Lennon tunes (either solo or with The Plastic Ono Band):

1. "Instant Karma"

2. "No. 9 Dream"

3. "Watching the Wheels"

4. "Imagine"

5. "Nobody Told Me"

6. "Jealous Guy"

7. "Woman is the N of the World"

8. "Oh Yoko"

9. "Mind Games"

10. "Cold Turkey"