Last night we saw at least two sets of sibling Olympians, leading us to wonder (as we’ve been wondering things all Olympics long): Musn’t families of multiple Olympic competitors be, like, really…
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The Gawker Olympic Village: Day 12 (Now with 100% More Hate Mail!) [Olympics]
Welcome to your weekday Olympic village. Tonight: Ice dancing has one final chance to offend. Freestyle skiing! Team ski jumping! Crank up your old Jock Jams Vol. III cassette, pull up a beanbag and…
Ladies Figure Skating Prize Arrives in Vancouver [Open Caption]
[And the gents' too, I suppose! That's Jon Hamm at the Vancouver airport today; image via Bauer-Griffin]
How Awkward Is the Olympic Village? [Olympic Mysteries]
Watching the brave dudes of ice dancing last night (jovial Agosto! dashing Moir!) and then considering the rowdy antics of snowboarders, we got to wondering: What is it like when two very different…
Depressed Growing Pains Star Andrew Koenig Vanishes in Vancouver [Missing]
The parents of Andrew Koenig—who played Growing Pains neighbor Boner Stabone—say their son was “suffering from depression” at the time of his disappearance. Last seen on Valentine’s Day,…
More Adventures in Olympic Racial Drag [Figure Skating]
We finally figured out why the Russian ice dancers thought they could get away with their brownface “Aboriginal Dance” routine: This year, everyone did racial drag. Americans in bindi. Germans in…
Everyone Cares About Hockey All of a Sudden [Olympics]
We just finished the last quarter (or whatever it’s called) of the USA/Canada hockey game. We won! But all anyone could talk about was how pissed they were that the game was shown on MSNBC and not…
The Gawker Olympic Village: Day 10 [Olympics]
Ice-dancing (LIVE). Speedskating! Bobsledding! Men’s super G! Got an Olympics hangover? Hair-of-the-dog-that-bit-you: More Olympics. On this lazy Sunday, let’s chat and watch the Olympics together…
Kreepie Kats in "Follow Us Into The Dreaded Anus of Death" [Kreepie Kats]
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Is the Most Interesting Event at the Olympics Already Over? [Olympic Mysteries]
Oh last night was a corker. The girls snowboarded and Julia Mancuso continued her silver rush, but mostly men twirled around on ice and we all clapped and swooned. Now that it’s over, we’re worried….