Best observation about the Summer Olympics? Look to Salon’s King Kaufman:

What a day for Ahmed Almaktoum, who routed the field to win the gold in the men’s double trap final, thus becoming the first person from the United Arab Emerates ever to win a medal.

I did a double-take when I saw him celebrating his victory — a Middle Eastern man in a head scarf and an ammo vest jubilantly holding a shotgun over his head. Whoa! Did I switch to a news channel? Oh, I see.

Classic.

Posted on 18 August 2004