SPORTS BUZZ: A blog tells the story behind all the athletes who placed last in various events at the Olympics. Sometimes, the losers are so much more interesting than the winners. This is, of course, coming from someone who’s kind of a loser.

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1. DFL - A Blog Celebrating Last-place Finishes at the Olympics. Because They’re There, and You’re Not.
2. Afghan Female Athlete Finished in Last Place
3. From the Idea Factory: a Book about Last Place Losers from the Olympics

TV BUZZ: The gold medalist has delivered NBC with some huge ratings, but he’s yet to trump The Golden Girls , which continues to hold the record for Saturday night numbers. People might like watching Michael Phelps in a Speedo, but nothing beats Bea Arthur in a mauve pleather pantsuit. There’s just no contest.

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1. Bigger Wingspan: Bea Arthur or Michael Phelps?
2. NBC = MPBC?

SPORTS BUZZ: Young wrestler Henry Cejudo, the son of unauthorized migrants, has just won the gold for the U.S. American nativists want him deported. Thanks to the Olympics, I’m having an epiphany that there are a lot of really racist people in the world.

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The Best Links:

1. “Don’t Let Michelle Malkin and Her Horde of Flying Wingnut Monkeys Hear About Henry Cejudo”
2. Get His Profile and Stats Here
3. Video - Henry Cejudo talks about his difficulties and motivation that will help him in the 2008 Beijing Olympics
4. Nativists Want Him Deported
5. Henry Cejudo Epitomizes American Dream
6. What’s an Anchor Baby?
7. Heartwarming Story about Henry’s Family

A round-up of girls kissing at the Olympics. This photo deserves the tagline “Every Parents’ Nightmare” possibly more so than those Gossip Girl ads.

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1. Synchronized Swimming Lesbian Kiss - Aww!
2. YouTube - Awkward Olympic Kiss Between Italian Vaulter and Alicia Sacramone
3. Two Gymnasts Share Lesbian Kiss

SPORTS BUZZ: The fashion model who is reportedly dating Michael Phelps, despite being linked to Amanda Beard , an Olympic swimmer who posed nude in Playboy . They both have such adorably crooked teeth!

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The Best Links:

1. Michael Phelps + Lily Donaldson = Power Couple
2. She’s Ranked as One of the Top 8 Models
3. High-Fashion Lily Donaldson Photos on Style.com
4. Lily Donaldson - Unofficial Fansite
5. But What About Amanda Beard?
6. Amanda Beard - Featured on BuzzFeed
7. Michael Phelps’ girlfriend: Amanda Beard or Lily Donaldson?

Am I the only one who finds these Olympics gymnastics photos kind of risque? For the pedophile in all of us! No, just kidding. Stay away, Humbert Humberts!

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1. Li Shanshan of Team China Mid-air in a Decadent Leotard
2. Jiang Yuyuan Jumps
3. USA Straddle!
4. Upside-Down Straddle!
5. Shantessa Pama (USA) Does a Ring Leap On Beam
6. Alicia Sacramone’s Floor Exercise

SPORTS BUZZ: Disgusted with losing on points in the semi-finals against the later gold medalist Andrea Minguzzi, Abrahamian tossed his bronze medal onto the wrestling mat after receiving it and left. And then he pouted and harrumphed off to his room with his arms crossed.

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1. Swedish wrestler Ara Abrahamian Threatens to Quit During Presentation Ceremony
2. Matt Drudge’s Wrestler Fetish
3. Watch a Video of the Ceremony
4. Ara Abrahamian’s Stats on ESPN.com
5. Ara Abrahamian on Wikipedia

SPORTS BUZZ: She’s the voice behind the patriotic anthem sung at the Opening Ceremony, performed by a cuter, more TV-friendly lip-syncer named Lin Miaoke. People are up in arms about this, but it’s not news that the world is a superficial place. Hasn’t anybody ever seen that movie The Truth About Cats and Dogs ???

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The Best Links:

1. Video: More Attractive Girl Mimes Song at Opening Ceremonies
2. The Milli-Vanilli Truth Behind the Song
3. Yang Peiyi and Hundreds of Little Girls’ Self-Esteem at Stake
4. NPR Listeners Asked to Weigh In
5. Hey, Pavarotti Lip-Synced…But Then Again, He Was Dying of Cancer

SPORTS BUZZ: The Chinese are suspected of fielding underage gymnasts, who are typically lighter and more audacious, to compete in the Olympics. Underage workers, they’re not just in sweatshops!

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The Best Links:

1. IOC Launchs Investigation Into Ages Of Chinese Gymnasts, Could Strip Medals
2. Bela Karolyi Rails about Underage Chinese Gymnasts
3. Online Records Say Chinese Gymnasts May Be Under Age
4. Overworked Underage Gymnasts Breaking My Heart
5. Dicussion: “A couple of those kids didn’t even look like they were ten yet.”
6. Chinese Will Do Anything to Win

There are some awkward photos of George W. Bush hanging out with Olympic volleyball players at the Beijing Olympics. It literally looks like he’s about to tap that ass.

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The Best Links:

1. Slideshow of George Bush, Playing Volleyball, Hanging with Volleyball Chicks
2. “It’s Good to be President”
3. Hot Olympic Volleyball Asses

SPORTS BUZZ: The olympic gold medalist and world record-holder has positioned himself as an advocate and ambassador of swimming for reluctant black children. He’s only the third African-American swimmer to make the U.S. Olympic squad. So far, it seems like the sport of swimming manages to attract a lot of atypical, anomalous athletes (see also: Natalie du Toit , Dara Torres , and Laure Manaudou ).

The Best Links:

1. YouTube - Cullen Jones on BET Show “Ballers”
2. It’s Just a Fact: African-Americans and Hispanic-Americans Are Far Less Likely to Be Swimmers
3. Black Swimmer Cullen Jones Rocks Gold in Beijing
4. Cullen Jones Teaches Black Kids How to Swim
5. Rare for African-Americans to Major Contenders in Swimming
6. He’s Like the Tiger Woods of Swimming

British athletes are showing off their nude bodies in a new advertisement for Powerade. Is it just me or is that blueish lighting really unflattering, kind of casting a dead monster light on Rebecca Romero?

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The Best Links:

1. See More Photos: Britain’s Olympians Strip Down As They Prepare to Make History in Beijing
2. Stuff Worth Seeing: Naked Athletes Push Carb-Laced Sports Drink
3. Ah, A Brief History of Nude Athletes
4. Hot Women Olympians - Featured on BuzzFeed