remember when her shoelace broke right before her go at the olympics!

this is an interview with the director of an ESPN documentary about tonya harding and the you-know-what with nancy kerrigan.  im going to watch that

 

never forget : the olympics are coming.

FIVE-time Olympic champion Ian Thorpe has bombed out of the 200m freestyle, finishing 12th at the Australian Swimming Championships in Adelaide.

Thorpe, who only announced he was making a comeback 14 months ago, now needs to finish in the top six of the 100m freestyle if his Olympic dream is to be realised.

After a strong start, Thorpe faded in the last 100m, stopping the clock in 1:49.91s, slower than the 1:49.18 he swam this morning in the heat.

"I'm terribly disappointed with that, I had a really good heat swim and I thought I could swim a lot quicker," Thorpe said.

"The last 100 was a struggle, I'm not sure why.

"This was slower than what I swam this morning, probably the inexperience of racing in the last 18 months held me up.

"The fairytale has turned into a nightmare." (via)

nerd alert!

this is the olympic velodrome in berlin by dominique perrault. kylie sent me the hanna trailer, and it makes an appearance as some kind of fancy secret government building. but it's really used for bicycles. the more you know...