Category Archives: Sports

Easily Confused (16) – Tour de France

Posted on 2012-12-19 by Andreas Moser

Number of Tour de France victories by Lance Armstrong: zero Number of my Tour de France victories: zero But I achieved the same result as Lance Armstrong with much less sweat and toil and with fewer lawsuits.

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Easily Confused, # 11

Posted on 2012-11-05 by Andreas Moser

New York Marathon in 2011: New York Marathon in 2012:

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Palestinians at the Olympic Games, now and then

Posted on 2012-08-15 by Andreas Moser

Palestinians at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich: Palestinians at the 2012 Olympic Games in London: That’s quite an improvement, I would say.

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Easily confused, # 2

Posted on 2012-08-14 by Andreas Moser

British teenagers playing with fire in August 2011: British teenagers playing with fire in August 2012: I found 2011 more exciting.

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Not so fast, Usain Bolt

Posted on 2012-08-06 by Andreas Moser

Whenever somebody says “Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world”, I cringe. My sense of logic feels under attack by this sentence – and by similar outrageous statements. I am not saying that Usain Bolt could not be … Continue reading →

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You can’t copy Paris

Posted on 2012-07-27 by Andreas Moser

London, you should not have tried to copy the Eiffel Tower. Even with immense good will on the part of the beholder, it does not look anything like this: With an effort like this, France still doesn’t need to worry … Continue reading →

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Football Germany vs. Greece

Posted on 2012-06-22 by Andreas Moser

Tonight, at 2045 CEST: Germany meets Greece in the quarter finals of the European Football Championship 2012. In a sense only a football match, this encounter is completely overcharged with expectations, hopes and fears. After years of the financial crisis in … Continue reading →

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London Olympics vs. Human Rights

Posted on 2012-05-29 by Andreas Moser

We have become accustomed to undemocratic countries being awarded Football World Cups or to European Football Championships being held in countries like Ukraine with less than optimal respect for human rights. (Although Ukraine at least has the hottest political protesters … Continue reading →

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London is ready for World War III

Posted on 2012-05-07 by Andreas Moser

So we have the 2012 Summer Olympics coming to town. As a Londoner, I am not excited. A busy, crowded and polluted city like London needs two more weeks of a massive rumpus like a hole in its head. And … Continue reading →

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Organisations which may want to change their name, # 1

Posted on 2012-04-01 by Andreas Moser

When I was in Dingli, Malta today I saw that their football club is called “Dingli Swallows”. Well, as long as I am the only one to misunderstand this club’s name (until I saw the logo), it shouldn’t be a … Continue reading →

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