it ain't over til the fat lady moans

and boy am i moaning.  and yes, fat! 

*in photo: maria sharapova at the atp players party held before the USO kicked off last aug 20 (photo courtesy of tennis.com)

shining bright and it ain't over yet!

it's the kind of thing that makes me break into side A's LSS-inducing line, "so many questions but the answers are so few..."

answer the questions on my latest sports post and the top 3 answers get a special reward from the ultimate sports fan!

*in photo: liu xiang of china breaks 1.3 billion hearts as he limps off the track in the first heat of the 110-m hurdles earlier this week (photo courtesy of AP)

#1 glorified with gold

today, rafael nadal is officially the world number 1. vamos mi rafalito! as he is joined by ana ivanovic of serbia atop the tennis rankings, the sight of the olympic gold medal dangling around his neck has validated, with definitive authority, his ascendancy in the sport in 2008.

the biggest weekend for tennis in olympics ended in big smiles and joy for all winners.

in photo: roger federer and stanislas wawrinka with their doubles gold (photo courtesy of tennis.com)

beijing newsmakers

my brain's about to explode. the coming together of all my sporting favourites and sports favourites is just absorbing beyond belief.

*in photo: michael phelps erupts into celebration with his relay teammate when the USA pips france by .07 of a second to snare gold in the 4x100 metre freestyle event (photo courtesy of the canadian press)

svelte sightings

and the games have begun! i'm in sports paradise. the biggest sporting event on the planet --- my favourite celebs of all are the stars for the next 16 days! totally orgazzzzmic.

check out my parade of faves HERE.

and then there was four

it's not enough to have a trifecta of rafa (yeah baby, he'll be the official number one on 18 august 2008, after 160 weeks as #2, the longest record ever for a #2!), roger ("only no. 1 matters"), and nole ("my dream is to be the number 1 in the world, ever since i was a child of 9...") ruling men's tennis right now, and things are exciting enough with these three.

sometimes, exciting just ain't enough. if three's a crowd, four's a major party. way to go, flower of scotland!

yet another loss

losing to his 6 foot 9 inches opponent with the most fearsome serve on the tour, with his own serve never getting broken was painful for the world number 1. losing by three crucial points in the final tiebreaker is going to hurt for a long long time.