America’s newest Olympics gymnastics star Gabby Douglas got scolded Monday night by first lady Michelle Obama for eating a celebratory Egg McMuffin at McDonald’s after the competition was over.
This occurred on NBC’s Tonight Show with host Jay Leno acting as the devil on Douglas’s shoulder congratulating her for the splurge.
Michelle Obama gives Gabby Douglas a quarter pounding..
Prized Olympic tickets entrusted to foreign delegations are being openly sold by touts on the streets of Britain, it emerged last night. They are cashing in on the huge demand for seats by selling tickets sent overseas by Games organisers.The revelation came as a row raged over embarrassing scenes of banks of empty seating at many Games venues – including last night’s swimming finals.
Last night Scotland Yard said every illegal seller arrested so far had held tickets despatched overseas to national committees and official re-sellers. One of the touts held is from Germany, another from Slovakia. The discovery raises further questions about the way in which precious tickets are allocated by the International Olympic Committee. And it will fuel anger among millions of British sport fans who have been left watching events on TV because they failed to get a seat in last year’s ballot. The Yard confirmed that about 20 people had been arrested attempting to sell tickets since the opening ceremony on Friday.
Yesterday spectators who bought tickets for the Olympic Park, because all venues inside were sold out of lower-priced tickets, had the frustration of watching pictures on the big screen of unfilled seats.
Military at parade rest filling empty Olympic seating..
Danny Boyle’s secretive Opening Ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics has finally been revealed.
However, while much of the world watched live as the 2012 London Olympics began, American audiences had to wait until primetime to watch the lighting of the flames. Looking to make up much of the $1.3 billion that NBC spent on the rights to the Olympics, the Opening Ceremony that American audiences watched was vastly different than what the rest of the world witnessed.
Continuously cutting to commercials throughout, the subtle, nuanced program that Danny Boyle planned out was all but eviscerated, as a need to recoup some of the money spent on the Olympic rights took its toll on a ceremony that the world was raving about just hours before.
Appropriately complaining about not being able to watch the Olympic Ceremony live with the rest of the world, many complaints quickly turned to the abundance of commentary that was provided by Today Show hosts Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer – and later NBC Sports commentator Bob Costas, taking over for Vieira.
NBC coverage with massive commercials and ongoing commentators changes NBC peacock to Macy’s Day turkey…
Top Australian beach volleyballer Claire Kelly is so committed to getting her and partner Carla Kleverlaan to the London Olympics that she is offering potential sponsors tattoo space on her body, the Sunday Herald Sun reported.
For $10,000 (US$10,500) sponsors can have a 0.8 x 0.8 inch (2 x 2cm) piece of Kelly’s toned and tanned left limb, while $50,000 (US$52,490) buys a 1.9 x 1.9 inch (5 x 5cm) space on her right arm or shoulder. Other so-called “packages” are also being offered for sale on auction website eBay.
“It’s taken me months to get the courage to do this and now I’m going through with it,” Kelly said. “I was thinking, ‘Tattoo my body with a business logo just so I can have a chance to play for my country at the Olympics? I’m crazy’!
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