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What went wrong*: London 2012 in gaffes, fails and controversies

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It all started so well
What a clanger
Who’s that girl? No, really
Romney’s foreign policy master-class
There are two different Koreas?
Welsh/English/whatever
“N O D N O L O T E M O C L E W” to London 2012
Sold out tickets + ? = empty seats
Ready? Set? No
The more mobile phones, the harder it is to communicate
Don’t play that again, Sam
The day that time stood still
#NBCFail
It must be drugs
It actually is drugs
I can’t find my keys
No politics, please
You think you have a ticket? THERE ARE NO TICKETS
“Almost as good as the Moscow metro”
Olympic brand police outfoxed by Dr Dre
The more you cycle, the worse you get, right?
Athlete gets sent home after doing something stupid on a social network #1
Athlete gets sent home after doing something stupid on a social network #2
Athlete gets sent home after doing something stupid on a social network #3
Non-athlete gets arrested after doing something stupid on a social network
Athletes do something faintly intelligent on a social network
Oops, optimism
“China control everything”
They think it’s all over the line
No maths, no medals, kids!
“Avoid London if possible”, says Boris
Okay, say general public 
Don’t leave me hanging
Evander who?
Loser claims it was a fix (wait for it…)
…he’s right
Sit down and shut up, Fox Sports
London feels too much like home
Swimmer admits dolphin tendencies
So rules aren’t made to be broken?
Team GB win historic dressage gold, nobody cares
The gold for most fitting surname goes to
But this is a close silver
Not a good week for Spain’s mechanics (1, 2, 3)
America’s bid for freedom
‘Injured’ horse not allowed to compete
‘Injured’ athlete takes gold
“It was definitely an ‘oh shoot’ moment”
Note to self: you can’t be an Olympian if your significant other is a Nazi
Note to self 2: you can’t be an Olympian if you have sex with your significant other
How is this even a story
This is definitely not a story
Ouch
We’ve all been there, man
Beware the perilous pole vault
There’s always one
You can’t say that!
(Even if you’re right)
Premature celebration #1
Premature celebration #2
Stay classy, America

*not perfectly

Olympi-shambles of the Day: Shin v Heidemann South Korea’s Shin A-Lam was defeated by Germany’s Britta Heidemann in the semi-final of the Women’s Individual Epee competition after a clock malfunction added an extra second to the match, allowing Heidemann the chance to score the decisive hit in her 6-5 victory. A crying Shin was then forced to wait on the piste as her team attempted to lodge an appeal; after half an hour she was led away by officials, only to be brought back minutes later to compete in the bronze medal match against China’s Sun Yujie.Unsurprisingly, Shin lost. High-res

Olympi-shambles of the Day: Shin v Heidemann

South Korea’s Shin A-Lam was defeated by Germany’s Britta Heidemann in the semi-final of the Women’s Individual Epee competition after a clock malfunction added an extra second to the match, allowing Heidemann the chance to score the decisive hit in her 6-5 victory.

A crying Shin was then forced to wait on the piste as her team attempted to lodge an appeal; after half an hour she was led away by officials, only to be brought back minutes later to compete in the bronze medal match against China’s Sun Yujie.

Unsurprisingly, Shin lost.

“Those victims who were slaughtered are people that I knew well. These children I knew well, personally. I ate with their families. I had social ties with them. The regime cannot lie about these people, who they were and what they did to them. It was a brutal act by the regime against people who were with the revolution.”

Senior Syrian military officer Major Jihad Raslan, who has defected from Assad’s forces after witnessing the Houla massacre. He spoke to the Guardian. The full article is here. (via thepoliticalnotebook)

(via thepoliticalnotebook)