Tuesday, 7 August 2012

Olympics trivia

Somethings which caught my eye from Olympics in the last few days...

Michael Phelps has a diet of 10,000 -12,000 Calories per day!! Mind boggling, given that the average Indian man would eat not more than 3000 cal.

Wu Minxia, the Chinese diver. Her parents concealed the fact that her grandmother diet a year ago and that her mother has breast cancer, for fear of upsetting her Olympic medal hopes. That sounds crazy but then people have their reasons.

Yao Jie, Netherlands shuttler. Some Chinese badminton players have emigrated to European countries because the level of competition in Chinese badminton is so high that you cant make it to the national team top rankings. This is how Yao Jie came to play for Netherlands. I was intrigued seeing her play Saina Nehwal. The name, the appearance and the country dint quite go together ad hence I googled her!

That's it for now, will keep updating as more and more things catch my eye in the days to come  :-)

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