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Dear David Leyva, You Didn’t Win a Medal Today, But You Look a Lot Like Drake, So Hey
Dear David,
I am sorry you and your boys did not win a medal today. But my little sister alerted me to how much you look like Drake and she is right. Now, I am a Drake fan just as much as they next person, which is to say who knows how much of a Drake fan I am, but the point is, he did come out with an inspirational song with the lyric “I’m so, I’m so, I’m so, I’m so, I’m so proud a you,” and even though you did not win today, that is how we all feel about you. You had a crazy awesome high bar on Saturday, so we all know that you have serious skills, and besides, you did your best, which is what the Olympics is all about (and this of course has been proven by how little the media cares about how Michael Phelps lost that one time, they just care that he did his best when he won 17 gold medals!).  Despite the loss today, we will all spend the remainder of the Olympics drinking every night because we drink to your accomplishments, just like we drink to Drizzy’s. Though of course everyone would understand if you wanted to choose some other, body-friendly celebratory practice, given that it is precisely drinking every night (and smoking, and never working out, and staying up until 3am watching Breaking Bad) that makes the rest of us non-Olympians.
I know there are some people in the world that, for various legitimate reasons, would be like “Ugh, why must you compare me to Drake!?” But I think your website indicates that you are not someone who is intimidated by fanciness, nor are you someone who is afraid to look really incredibly handsome while doing really hard things, nor are you afraid to do them naked! As far as America is concerned, you are a victory. 
Love,
Catherine
-Catherine, boofboofboof, @cathyprovy

thetickr:

Dear David Leyva, You Didn’t Win a Medal Today, But You Look a Lot Like Drake, So Hey

Dear David,

I am sorry you and your boys did not win a medal today. But my little sister alerted me to how much you look like Drake and she is right. Now, I am a Drake fan just as much as they next person, which is to say who knows how much of a Drake fan I am, but the point is, he did come out with an inspirational song with the lyric “I’m so, I’m so, I’m so, I’m so, I’m so proud a you,” and even though you did not win today, that is how we all feel about you. You had a crazy awesome high bar on Saturday, so we all know that you have serious skills, and besides, you did your best, which is what the Olympics is all about (and this of course has been proven by how little the media cares about how Michael Phelps lost that one time, they just care that he did his best when he won 17 gold medals!).  Despite the loss today, we will all spend the remainder of the Olympics drinking every night because we drink to your accomplishments, just like we drink to Drizzy’s. Though of course everyone would understand if you wanted to choose some other, body-friendly celebratory practice, given that it is precisely drinking every night (and smoking, and never working out, and staying up until 3am watching Breaking Bad) that makes the rest of us non-Olympians.

I know there are some people in the world that, for various legitimate reasons, would be like “Ugh, why must you compare me to Drake!?” But I think your website indicates that you are not someone who is intimidated by fanciness, nor are you someone who is afraid to look really incredibly handsome while doing really hard things, nor are you afraid to do them naked! As far as America is concerned, you are a victory. 

Love,

Catherine

-Catherine, boofboofboof, @cathyprovy

thetickr:

Introducing The Tickr’s London 2012 Olympic Blogging Team
We’re thrilled about the team we brought together and the Olympic coverage they’re going to bring to the masses. It was a tough decision, but in the end we went with 6 diverse and multifaceted bloggers. A group of individuals that we thought would deliver Olympic content you wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else.
From top left to right we have:
Sean Yoo A Korean-American college senior at Ithaca College studying Television/Radio with a dream to be a sports anchor on ESPN. Currently interning at NBC at 30 Rock, for the highlights factory, which amazingly is located in the same studio as SNL.
Mike McGrath Graphic Designer and artist born and raised in the beautiful Cleveland, OH. Enjoyer of beer, sports, music and classic video games in that order. Fan of all sports with basketball serving as a first love which led to the Co-Founding of Double Scribble, the world’s leading daily basketball art blog, which will host it’s first charity gallery show October 21st at BuckBuck gallery in Cleveland. Still has posters of Andre Agassi and Scottie Pippen hanging in his bedroom.
Neeraj Grover 17 year old sports-junkie or whatever you call a sports-addicted person from Chandigarh, India. Founder of the Tumblr sports blog Culture of Sports.
Josh Eisenberg Creator/writer of obitoftheday.com, named one of the forty best history blogs by Tumblr. You can also find him posting occasionally on mlboffseason.com, named one of the 25 best sports blogs on Tumblr by Bleacher Report. When he is not writing about, quadrennial athletic competitions, the National Pastime, dead people, Josh is a stay-at-home dad of five in Oak Park, Illinois and a professional tour guide in Chicago.
Catherine Provenzano A resident of New York and a doctoral student in ethnomusicology. But what she’s really interested in is athletes and how they know how to be athletic.
Nathan Hayhoe An English teacher currently residing in Montréal, Quebec. An avid sports fan and has proudly watched every Olympic games since Ben Johnson won (and then lost) his gold in Soeul. Nathan uses his hobby, sports card collecting, as a means of writing about his favorite athletes and teams on his blog, Canadian Cardboard.
Happy Olympics everyone! See you at the opening ceremonies!

thetickr:

Introducing The Tickr’s London 2012 Olympic Blogging Team

We’re thrilled about the team we brought together and the Olympic coverage they’re going to bring to the masses. It was a tough decision, but in the end we went with 6 diverse and multifaceted bloggers. A group of individuals that we thought would deliver Olympic content you wouldn’t be able to get anywhere else.

From top left to right we have:

Sean Yoo
A Korean-American college senior at Ithaca College studying Television/Radio with a dream to be a sports anchor on ESPN. Currently interning at NBC at 30 Rock, for the highlights factory, which amazingly is located in the same studio as SNL.

Mike McGrath
Graphic Designer and artist born and raised in the beautiful Cleveland, OH. Enjoyer of beer, sports, music and classic video games in that order. Fan of all sports with basketball serving as a first love which led to the Co-Founding of Double Scribble, the world’s leading daily basketball art blog, which will host it’s first charity gallery show October 21st at BuckBuck gallery in Cleveland. Still has posters of Andre Agassi and Scottie Pippen hanging in his bedroom.

Neeraj Grover
17 year old sports-junkie or whatever you call a sports-addicted person from Chandigarh, India. Founder of the Tumblr sports blog Culture of Sports.

Josh Eisenberg
Creator/writer of obitoftheday.com, named one of the forty best history blogs by Tumblr. You can also find him posting occasionally on mlboffseason.com, named one of the 25 best sports blogs on Tumblr by Bleacher Report. When he is not writing about, quadrennial athletic competitions, the National Pastime, dead people, Josh is a stay-at-home dad of five in Oak Park, Illinois and a professional tour guide in Chicago.

Catherine Provenzano
A resident of New York and a doctoral student in ethnomusicology. But what she’s really interested in is athletes and how they know how to be athletic.

Nathan Hayhoe
An English teacher currently residing in Montréal, Quebec. An avid sports fan and has proudly watched every Olympic games since Ben Johnson won (and then lost) his gold in Soeul. Nathan uses his hobby, sports card collecting, as a means of writing about his favorite athletes and teams on his blog, Canadian Cardboard.

Happy Olympics everyone! See you at the opening ceremonies!

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