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Archive for August, 2008
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2008 Olympic Asthma Profiles – Park Tae-hwan
I imagine it feels pretty wonderful to be Michael Phelps right about now, but South Korea’s Park Tae-hwan will probably remember the Beijing Olympics forever as well, as he earned the first gold medal ever in swimming for his country. At just 18 years-old, he won the men 400m freestyle this week. (Start watching [...] -
2008 Olympic Asthma Profiles – Matt Reed
Matt Reed is both a U.S. triathlete and, at 6 and a half feet, the world’s tallest professional triathlete. Reed used to race for his home country of New Zealand until 2004 and finished 2007 as the top-ranking male in the U.S. He’s won a slew of awards, including the U.S. Elite National Championship Title [...] -
2008 Olympic Asthma Profiles – Haile Gebrselassie
Haile Gebrselassie is a history-making distance runner from Ethiopia. Most people consider him the best distance runner of all time, as he holds an incredible four consecutive world titles, three world records, and two gold medals in the 10,000m. Last September, he set a new world record of 2:04:26 at the Berlin Marathon. That’s 26.2 [...] -
Friday Links: Olympics Pollution and U.S. Masks, Climate Change and Allergies, Stem Cell Breakthrough
Let’s start off with Beijing. U.S. Cyclists Wear Pollution Masks in Airport, Then Apologize This is a ridiculous story. Not because the athletes wore the masks in the airport, where the air is filtered and the move therefore struck some as unnecessary and even inflammatory, and not because the thick, thick tension surrounding Beijing’s air problem prompted [...] -
Weird Health Wednesdays: Olympics Edition, Including a Colbert Clip
Here’s the biggest Chinese restaurant in the world in Hunan Province and subject of a Sundance channel documentary running this week. The West Lake Restaurant has 300 chefs, 5,000 seats, and floor shows. (via Serious Eats) Weird Former Olympics Sports Solo synchronized swimming, anyone? Yes, that’s solo. How about hands-only rope climbing or live pigeon shooting? Puts [...] -
Olympics Round-Up – Beijing Air Quality, the Border Attack, Olympics Architecture, Athletes to Watch
(This is Torino, not Beijing.) Opening ceremonies are Friday, and I’m a sucker for the Games like everyone else. There’s the draw of international goodwill and friendly global competition, but I can’t lie. The bendy people doing tricks on the balance beam and the high dive sucker me in just as much. Apparently, even in the wake [...] -
Sending Asthma Kids Back to School
It’s 105 degrees with the heat index here and the midday air resembles soup more than anything else, but I’m still in a fine, fine mood this morning. School starts exactly two weeks from today, and I get to stop juggling writing and editing projects with the summer entertainment of two children. If you’re an Asthma [...]
