The Globe and Mail - Christie Blatchford Columns

I'm not blogging this, mark my words

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 04:43 EDT

With 20,000 journalists in the same approximate place, it is impossible to overlook the phenomenon

I'm not blogging this, mark my words

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

The unofficial end to journalism as I know it may have come earlier this week, when my Globe and Mail sporty colleague Matt Sekeres and I were at the triathlon venue in the north end of the city, waiting for the event to start.

New breed of athlete is higher, faster and scrappier

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:02 EDT

Fighting spirit is everywhere in red and white

New breed of athlete is higher, faster and scrappier

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

As Canada raked in another fistful of Olympic medals, surpassing the total of 12 the country won in Athens four years ago, the face of a new breed of Canadian athlete has begun to emerge.

Wear and tear lead to more hardware

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

This was, as Dave Ross knew too well, the beginning of an end.Karen Cockburn had just won a medal in her third consecutive Olympics - one of a handful to do it - as one of the world's best and most endurable bouncers, those gymnasts who pack 10 complicated aerial moves (triple front pikes, twists, tucks, flips, somersaults and the like) into about 20 seconds of controlled madness on the trampoline.

Cockburn's silver lining

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:34 EDT

In what may well be her last Games, trampolinist fights through the pain for her third Olympic medal in three tries

Zero to seven in 24 glorious hours

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:56 EDT

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Zero to seven in 24 glorious hours

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

Okay, so it wasn't Ten Days that Shook the World, the book about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia.But the 24 hours and 58 minutes that changed Canada's Olympics - from the time Dave Calder and Scott Frandsen turned in a near-perfect race in the men's pair and broke the jinx to the moment yesterday that the men's rowing eights charged first across the finish line and straight for redemption from a crushing fifth-place finish in Athens- will have to do.

CANADA JUST MISSES SHOT AT MEDAL

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

Canada literally came within a centimetre of winning its first medal and ending an Olympic-sized drought on Saturday morning.Shot putter Dylan Armstrong was sitting in the bronze position until American Christian Cantwell got up to take his last of six throws.