Tag Archives: track and field

Doin Hurdling

We haven’t really been on top of giving our readers very many funny clips lately, and when I saw this one today, I couldn’t resist posting it. We are fond of all things that come from Asia since three of us are Asian, and this guy in the clip had the spirit of the Panda with him in this race (literally), because that’s how a Panda would attack these hurdles too. I’m not sure if it was because he couldn’t jump or if it was some kind of special Olympics event, but whatever his reasons were for plowing through the hurdles, he brightened up my otherwise rainy and gloomy Monday. I couldn’t stop laughing when he knocked over the hurdle in the lane next to him right at the end making it so the other guy couldn’t even finish. As far as I can tell from homeboy’s celebration after crossing the finish line he must have won!!


Conclusions We Can Draw From the Semenya Gender Test

Making headlines this week is South African runner, Caster Semenya, who raised eyebrows by winning the World Championship in the 800 meters, and then raised doubts by, well, looking like a dude.  One can only speculate what the outcome will be, but there are a few observations I’ve come up with to this point that I’d like to share.

  • Dude does look like a lady man.
  • Quite an embarrassing ordeal for him/her to go through, regardless of the result.
  • You can’t spell Semenya without Semen!
  • Her/his name totally reminds me of Juwanna Mann.
  • Lastly, this is precisely why we shouldn’t have women’s sports (except those which men do not compete in e.g. field hockey, gymnastics, curling, etc.) Clearly, some “men” see the women’s ranks as a secondary division, where they can chop their junk off and still get a taste of Olympic glory.  Eliminate women’s track, basketball, whatever… and we don’t have this problem! (yes, i’m completely kidding)