[identity profile] dry-2olives.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
What's with these athletes biting their medals? I think this is the second or third photo I've seen from these olympics of someone biting their medal.

[identity profile] ceebeegee.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably some kind of childlike visceral need to experience the medal. I could see doing that.

[identity profile] dry-2olives.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Or, in the case of Chinese gymnasts, perhaps they're just teething.

[identity profile] dry-2olives.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! The photographers are telling them to bite it!

http://uk.reuters.com/article/olympicsNews/idUKSHA27199520080820

[identity profile] wonderpanther.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
I was watching the diving last night and he was such a pleasure to watch. Also, I feel horribly guilty saying this, but I actually did not know that he was gay, but he set off my gaydar. It was just the way that he would skip and saunter off after each dive. I know, that sounds horrible.
Edited 2008-08-24 11:28 (UTC)

[identity profile] ceebeegee.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I actually didn't watch it (NBC's site is weird, and I've been able to watch very little), I just came across the story. Apparently he was the first diver (or maybe the first athlete period) who competed while openly gay.

[identity profile] dry-2olives.livejournal.com 2008-08-24 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, from what I've read, he's the first olympic athlete to compete while openly gay.