Articles by Tim Carlson

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Butterfingers!

Witnesses are sworn in and asked to identify the guilty party in a lineup of Olympic athletic catastrophes. Roll tape. One by one, they watch a series of mind boggling disasters.

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Rhodes and Granger claim 2008 Ironman Canada

Australia’s Belinda Granger and New Zealand’s Bryan Rhodes both won the 26th Ironman Canada titles with strong bike splits Sunday on the classic Penticton, British Columbia course.

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Let us now praise Sheila Taormina – The One and Only Three Sport Olympian

Sheila Taormina wrapped up an amazing career by placing 19th of 36 entrants at the modern pentathlon at the Beijing Olympics Friday. This simple statement of the planned final fact in her athletic career does her no justice.

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Upstart Frodeno outkicks the Whitfield Time Machine to snatch Olympic Gold

When all the shouting at Shinsanling Reservoir was over, a surprise longshot German outkicked a triathlon murderer's row to take gold in the Olympic men's triathlon.

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Emma the Great: Triathlon’s Mighty Mite Eclipses All Resistance at Beijing

It came first, and was very much unlike the men’s electric, exciting, adrenaline-rich Olympic four-man duel that would take place a day later.

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Timothy Carlson sets Olympic Odds

These things are almost always impossible to predict. Which makes this endeavor an amusing fantasy, not unlike playing the lottery. But honestly speaking, there are only 8 to 10 men in the field of 56 who have the foot speed and leg power to win.

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Politics versus Purity of Purpose

Are the Beijing Olympics just another totalitarian infomercial? Or do they signal something hopeful—China reaching out to free world values? Granting the Games to countries with mixed human rights records is not new.