Okay, I'm a bit of a nerd. I'm one of those freaks that will notice spelling mistakes and the occasional grammatical error (though sometimes I am guilty of those...)
I can also pick out a factual error now and then, and this one caught my eye as I was reading an article about Clara Hughes.
For those who don't know, Hughes is a Canadian athlete who started out in speed skating, switched to cycling, and then switched back to long track speed skating. She's also one of Canada's most decorated Olympic athletes.
At this weekend's World Cup event in Russia, Hughes placed second. Here's what CBC wrote:
Hughes claimed silver in speed skating's team pursuit at the Olympics in Turin
last year, to go with two bronzes she won in cycling at the 1996 Atlanta Summer
Games and a bronze in speed skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games.
Okay, all of the above info is true. Hughes did win two bronze medals in Atlanta in cycling, a bronze in speed skating in Salt Lake, and a silver in Torino. But how in the world did they miss her GOLD medal in the 5000 m event in Torino??? I can still see her collapsing from exhaustion after her race.
Looks like somebody needed a fact checker for their article...
2 comments:
Missing the Gold medal is kinda like a smack in the face for her, isn't it? Dumbheads!
yeah definitely...especially since the article was about Hughes winning the silver in the 5000 m...and she's the Olympic champion in that distance.
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