Y'aint #1 till you walk away with the gold, so be careful.

Fair point; you can thump your chest and hoot and holler, but making the #1 sign could bite you in the ass.

The bronze medalist in men's hurdles is from Cincinnati, and he kept chanting "5-1-3" after the race was over, and it seriously took me a full minute to realize it was the Cincy area code. I was thinking it was how he placed in his previous 3 races or something.

Duhhhhhh.

(I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty, is all. Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.)

Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.)

SO if we ever get another Teppy here, we can call you Nati!Teppy?

I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty,

Really? I've heard it a lot. Mostly in rap songs.

Today is day 2 of "OK,no, seriously? You've got to be kidding."

(or is it Day 25? I can't tell anymore.)

The bronze medalist in men's hurdles is from Cincinnati, and he kept chanting "5-1-3" after the race was over, and it seriously took me a full minute to realize it was the Cincy area code. I was thinking it was how he placed in his previous 3 races or something.

Ha! I was wondering what that was.

And yeah, I think of area codes as being A Thing. Like, you know, hoes in different area codes.

My fave use of an area code was in the movie Go when one girl said to another, "Don't go 818 on me, Claire." HAHAHA! Made funnier by the fact that I'm in the 818! Go Valley!

(I've just never heard people chant an area code as a sign of city loyalty, is all. Some people call Cincinnati "The 'Nati," but I think it's ironically.

Yeah, what David said--definitely in rap songs.

Though my brother in law's sister is trying to be a singer, and style herself as the "princess of 'The Lou'" (sp?). Apparently she is from St. Louis. But I heard this and went "princess of the LOO???" and though of the bathroom. Never having heard of a nickname for St. Louis being "the Lou".

I think my favorite area code shout out is in "Peaches and Cream". Heh....from the 404 to the 212....

beth, that link was fabulous! i'm now watching all his other vids.

It also led me to Olga Korbut's high bar routine from 1972, which, damn.

The CBC has had some athletes and journalists keep blogs of their Olympic experience. The swimming commentator, who competed for Canada in the '72 Olympics, has a great post about a near miss with the hostage-takers in Munich.

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The movie “Munich” by Stephen Spielberg opens with the terrorists readying to hop the Athletes Village fence at 4 a.m. There are also four American athletes in the movie version who, after some jovial chatter, all jump the fence.

This is not accurate. They were not American athletes; it was me and three other Canadians. And there was most certainly no camaraderie among the two groups, who stayed 50 metres apart from one another.