Malaysia Made D-Listed!

Mention of Malaysia at my favorite guilty pleasure website D-Listed. Not the kind of publicity you want, but is usually isn't anyway on D-Listed ;)

Coolest Gymnast @ Beijing

Oksana Chusovitina! At 33 years old, she's competing in her fifth Olympics. Her first was the '92 Barcelona games - that's the year the youngest gymnasts competing at these Olympics were born! It's truly admirable that she has been able to remain competitive for so many years, and in the face of adversity no less. Check out her full bio at Wikipedia.

This year she's competing for Germany (previously for the former Soviet Union and Uzbekistan). She's a vault specialist and qualified for the vault event finals this Sunday. Looking forward to seeing her perform. Go Oksana!

Masam At The Olympics

So I stayed up to watch live feed (courtesy of nbcolympics.com - fabulous coverage!) of the Malaysian women competing in the badminton doubles last night. They lost to Korea, and the vibe I got from them the entire match was just so ... *masam. Dirty looks, lack of encouraging words between each other. Maybe I'm reading this wrong because I don't watch badminton usually? Just seemed like a complete lack of camaraderie between the two. Am I completely off on this?

*sour