Wednesday August 18… I missed alot of the Olympics action last night because I got sick (yes, I missed Judo). I had Taco Bell for lunch and Andrea brought home Tierra Grill for dinner. I risk potential stomach illness by eating at Taco Bell alone, but it seems having two Mexican meals in one day is too much for me. I must have instinctively been celebrating Mexico yesterday. So here’s some Mexican Olympic info courtesy NBC Sports. Viva la Taco Bell!
OLYMPIC LEGENDS: Diver Joaquin Capilla Perez won four medals between 1948 and 1956 while earning a complete set in platform; his gold came in Melbourne. Race walker Raul Gonzalez went gold-silver in the 50km and 20km events, respectively, in 1948. Humberto Mariles Cortes is one of four people to win three medals in equestrian at a single Games; in 1948, he won two golds (individual and team show jumping) and a bronze (team three-day).
ATHENS OUTLOOK: In Athens, reigning 400m world champion Ana Guevara could become Mexico’s first Olympic medalist in women’s track and field. Also, Noe Hernandez, who won silver in the men’s 20km walk in 2000, could pick up another medal in that event. Like Guevara, but on a different type of track, cyclist Nancy Contreras has a chance to become the first Mexican woman to win a medal in her sport; Contrerast won the 2001 world title in the 500m time trial and is a medal contender in that event as well as the sprint. Mexico also has podium potential in diving (teenager Rommel Pacheco was sixth on platform at the 2003 Worlds) and will participate in both men’s and women’s soccer.
this mexican olympic info is putting me to sleep. I need some more spicy commentary. What do you think of those peace head things they put on the medal winners on the medal stand things?
i was thinking the same thing when I copied and pasted the text above. It’s quite boring to read all that. The head thingies are neat. I am happy to see almost everyone puts them on the right way. The chick who won fencing put her’s on the back the back of her head ala graduation caps of the 80s and early 90s. Remember when girls would put their graduation hats on the back of their head? They had to use pins to hold it in place. STUPID! I think it’s neat too when some of the Americans take the… Read more »
i don’t think that Taco Bell qualifies [there’s an Olympic word for you] as “Mexican.” it’s in the same category as Chipotle – good Mexican-type food, but not actually food you would find in Mexico. it’s what Americans want to believe that Mexicans eat. i think that Mexicans snicker at our “Mexican-type” eateries.
for the record, i wore my graduation hat correctly, no pins required!
i knew someone would chipe in with the old “Taco Bell is not Mexican food”. Anyone want to add how the fortune cookie isn’t chinese?
Since you asked … OK! The fortune cookie did not originate in China. But it can now be found in China. The U.S. exports fortune cookies to China. I’m not sure if China also makes them, but we started exporting fortune cookies to China in the late 90’s.
Now who wants to add that Starbucks coffee isn’t coffee? ;]
i learned last night that the fortune cooke originated in San Francisco. It was on the Travel Channel. Though they said it was invented um er… it was like 1918 or 1912… somewhere around there.
did the fortune cookie predict itself?
how very auspicious.