http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics Just another irishtimes.com weblog Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:29:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 12:21: And so our Olympic odyssey draws to a close. It has been a strange sort of odyssey, being entirely sedentary apart from those intervals in which All Night Olympics left the couch to replace the matchsticks propping up his eyelids and refill the drip supplying his intravenous caffeine line. 12:30: ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/24/the-utterly-arbitrary-a-z-of-the-games-of-the-xxix-olympiad/ 02:02: Our penultimate night at the Olympic couchface. We must first commend boxer Kenny Egan, who proved again that what we saints and scholars do best as a nation is beat the lard out of people from other countries. Verily, it makes us want to weep tears of patriotic pride. 02:10: ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/23/good-night-good-night-parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow-or-barry-davies-last-night-of-commentary-from-beijing/ 01:40: Strictly speaking, this falls outside our remit. However, a matter of such gravity must not be ignored. For the record, we are shocked, appalled and dismayed at yesterday’s news that Irish rider Denis Lynch’s horse Lantinus tested positive for a banned substance. Lynch said he was ‘shattered’ and well ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/22/a-horse-a-horse-my-kingdom-for-a-clean-horse/ 01:41: Strange thoughts arrive unbidden in the watches of the night. The spectre of rickets has been haunting All Night Olympics. Deprived by our nocturnal existence of the nourishing Vitamin D provided by the sun’s rays, and hopped up on caffeine, we have been more than usually neurotically concerned. Could ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/21/the-strange-tale-of-marty-morrissey-and-the-praying-mantises/ 01:30: Let us be clear about one thing. All Night Olympics is not in the business of aggravating Ireland’s highly proficient pugilists. No, sir. Ours is a cowardly sort of satire extending only to those we feel do not have the capacity to beat us to a bloody pulp. It ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/20/i-paid-e160-for-a-tv-licence-and-i-expect-to-be-able-to-watch-live-womens-49kg-taekwondo-at-three-in-the-morning/ 01:20: Regular readers (Hi Mam, Dad) will be pleased to hear that the dulcet tones of Mr Barry Davies are currently gracing a screening of the GB v US women’s hockey match.   01:29: ‘There’s the gang, doing their Last Night of the Proms thing a little early.’ Barry sees a ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/19/me-and-barry-davies-part-four/ 01:12: All Night Olympics was putting in some overtime yesterday evening, watching RTE’s highlights programme. Yes, we know you worry we’re working too hard. We watched bashful analyst Eamonn Coghlan’s famed modesty shine through as he listed himself among a list of great and charismatic runners of yesteryear. 01:32: Because the ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/18/world-exclusive-gateshead-is-nothing-like-brazil/ 01:01: Forgive us, dear reader, if we are (even more) frazzled this morning but we are still reeling from Dublin’s meltdown in the face of a disgracefully superb Tyrone performance. Still, of what import are mere parochial sporting affairs when the global games of the Olympiad proceed? 01:07: The women’s marathon ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/17/michael-phelps-becomes-the-greatest-human-being-in-recorded-history/ 01:30: Be brave, for we bear ill tidings. Are you sitting? Good. All archery competition in the XXIX Olympiad has ceased. Deep breaths now. We knew you would be upset. We hadn’t even got started on the Robin Hood jokes. 01:37: On reflection, it may be no bad thing the bows-and-arrows game is ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/16/o-archery-archery-where-art-thou-archery/ 01:18: We received a comment yesterday from ‘Disraelite.’ It read: ‘What is the point of all this?’ Be assured, Disraelite, we ask ourself that very question each night. When we have arrived at a satisfactory answer, you will be first to know. 01:28: Splendid. Barry Davies is commentating on a replay of the ... http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/allnightolympics/2008/08/15/archery-for-dummies-and-the-sad-elimination-of-george-bovell-iii/