Slog - Comments on Today in the Olympics http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics The women's breaststroke. Organizers of the Beijing Olympics have set up a sex-determination laboratory to evaluate “suspect” female athletes, the official Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Sunday. The lab is similar to ones set up at previous Olympics in Sydney and Athens, and will draw on the resources of the Peking Union Medical College Hospital to evaluate an athlete’s external appearance, hormones and genes. … Despite decades of rigorous testing of women athletes, only one known case of gender cheating exists in the history of the modern Olympics — and it was not uncovered by a sex-determination test. Internet high... Copyright 2008 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:02:47 -0800 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:30:39 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle I miss those days. Tug of War as an olympic sport and ring toss using garlands of grape leaves.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1087993 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1087993 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:22:21 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 Every time I visit China, just for fun I try to visit Amnesty's website and get an "Error 404 - Page Not Found".

Trying to use Wikipedia gives the same result (serves me right, I suppose).

However, I was able to read Slog without any censorship. Go figure.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088019 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088019 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:35:29 -0800 Comment by PopTart Well, cause you know the journalists back in the other countries, it's not like they can get to those websites and add information to stories, right China? I mean by blocking the journalists while in China you are definitely preventing any negative information getting into the world press, right? And its not like the act of blocking journalists from information would be perceived in any way as negative, right?

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088023 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088023 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:37:51 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways fuck, they're going to stamp their little bound feet the first time Jesse Owens wins a medal!

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088085 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088085 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:21:40 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle The funniest things to watch are the "journalists" from Hong Kong getting beat up by the Chinese police as they learn that they too are subject to the pro-Bush Nanny State of Red China.

N00bz.

All your freedom are belong to Beijing.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088157 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088157 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:57:30 -0800 Comment by Ryan If it's a choice between introducing golf or bringing back tug-o-war, I say bring back tug-o-war. National pride at it's finest!

]]> Ryan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088351 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088351 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:46:05 -0800 Comment by Greg China censors the internet? AM TEH SURPRIZED.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088373 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088373 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:01:32 -0800 Comment by scharrera That just makes me miss the Battle of the Network Stars. Robert Conrad, *sigh*.

]]> scharrera http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088447 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088447 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:02:19 -0800 Comment by CP Glenn Greenwald did a good piece on this, titled:

"Those privacy-hating Chinese communist tyrants"

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/30/china/index.html

]]> CP http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088558 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1088558 Sports Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:53:54 -0800 Comment by GK Who get to pick out who is inspected?

]]> GK http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1089949 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/today_in_the_olympics#c1089949 Sports Thu, 31 Jul 2008 13:30:39 -0800