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If you’re new here and like what you read, subscribe to my RSS feed. Thank you for visiting!Food training, that is. They’re learning to eat without chopsticks so as to ease the transition once they get to China. Reuters:
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese athletes have begun a spartan, chopstick-free Chinese food training program to help [...]

A nice piece about the Bulldogs that are getting ready for the Olympics at Lake Placid’s Olympic Training Center.
 

Jarrod Shoemaker, ‘04, will represent the United States this summer in Beijing. From The Dartmouth:

Competing in possibly the most grueling sport around today, Jarrod Shoemaker ‘04 has, in all senses of the term, made it. A triathlete and a former runner for the Dartmouth varsity track team, Shoemaker will be representing the United States in [...]

This Olympics has incited more drama than any I can certainly remember, so much so that countries are discussing whether or not to attend the opening ceremonies in Beijing. 
The Associated Press reports:

It would be a “cop-out” for countries to skip the opening ceremonies at the Beijing Olympics as a way of protesting China’s crackdown in [...]

I haven’t been following any aspect of the Olympics until now, so I’ll let Hot Air tell you all about the torch:
Total number of snuffings in modern history prior to today: Two. Total number of snuffings in the past three hours: Three. Thus does the tedious spectacle that is the Olympics momentarily become interesting:

The procession continued but, soon after, [...]