Tag: Olympics
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Green Foods Fail Olympics
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2024 (Aug. 22, 2024) — The first occupants of the Olympics village in Paris quickly taught the caterers that athletes did not favour their “climate-friendly” diet of things like avocados on toast plus almond-milk coffee. The athletes demanded more meat and eggs. Paris Olympics CEO, Etienne Thobois,…
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Olympics Gone the Way of the NFL (RR)
by Roving Reporter, ©2021 (Jun. 28, 2021) — “Be Bop A Lula” (2:36) “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ he place to hear it here first. I’m standing in front of a café somewhere in Maryland about to waylay this young lady. Excuse me, Roving for ‘Pulse,’ the…
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Where is Michelle Obama’s Big Smile?
“PROUD OF HER COUNTRY?” by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 29, 2012) — Putative First Lady Michelle Obama placed her hand over her heart during the playing of the national anthem at the 2012 Olympics in Great Britain on Saturday but with a questionably pouting expression on her face. The unidentified woman with her looks much happier,…