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  • Five to watch at the 2010 Olympics

    20 Nov 2009 | 7:50 pm
    A look at the U.S. athletes expected to shine at the Vancouver Games.   

  • Lund's love of speed

    20 Nov 2009 | 11:31 am
    American slider Zach Lund -- who's earned two top 10 finishes in World Cup competition so far this season -- describes the thrilling feeling of speeding down a skeleton track.   

  • Men's skeleton: Park City

    20 Nov 2009 | 6:47 am
    Watch Latvia's Martins Dukurs slide to a gold-place finish and more from the first FIBT Skeleton World Cup season opener at Utah Olympic Park.

  • Katie Uhlaender's worst skeleton crash

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:32 am
    A corner on a World Cup track in Latvia left Katie Uhlaender with a broken sternum. The two-time World Cup champ remembers it as the worst crash of her career.

  • Pikus-Pace on missing Torino

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:31 am
    Skeleton athlete Noelle Pikus-Pace talks about the freak bobsled accident that kept her out of the Torino Games.
 
 
 
 
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  • Sentimental Journey

    mrswatersmill
    21 Nov 2009 | 9:12 am
    Sentimental Journey……   It’s that time of year again….leaves have all fallen and the evenings are crisp and lately we have been blessed with moderate temps during the day.  Just right for Thanksgiving!   It’s hard to believe but next week is Thanksgiving which means engagement season for those of us in the business.  This time of year floods my thoughts with nostalgia as I think about my own engagement.   In 1997, my father was killed in a tragic automobile accident on Hwy 52 just less than a mile from our house.  It had been a very rainy October and…

  • Japanese 2600th National Foundation Festival 1940

    imperialjapan
    11 Nov 2009 | 7:36 pm
    In 1940 the Summer Olympics were scheduled to come to Japan and at the same time the lavish Tokyo Exposition was planned. However, these grand plans were dashed by the escalting wars in Europe and China. Though disheartened (I imagine), the Japanese, being resilient, decided to expend all of that pent up festival energy on the 2600th anniversary of the founding of Japan by the mythical Emperor Jimmu. Although National Foundation festivals and celebrations had been held every year since 1872, the 1940 version was to be a pumped-up version of what had gone on before. In my last few posts I have…

  • We aren't the losers

    Ryan Starr
    7 Nov 2009 | 1:38 pm
    TORONTO WAS awarded the 2015 Pan Am Games Friday, walloping its competitors Lima, Peru and Bogota, Colombia. Pan Am Games: We'll take em! This will be the first time Toronto hosts a serious international sports event, with the exception of the 1992 and 1993 World Series and the odd indoor track and field championship, or something of similar calibre. A number of infrastructure projects will get done around town now. New sports facilities, too. There will be lots of other economic spin-offs for Toronto and surrounding municipalities. Though taxpayers will ultimately end up with the big…

  • Glory of the Grind

    Leadership Dynamics
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:24 am
    “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson “How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.” Lou Holtz _________________________________________ Someone recently described his job description as being written in “…two parts caffeine, one part adrenaline and four parts blood.” Now, I’m not sure if that describes your personal experience or philosophy of ministry, but it certainly is descriptive of at least some weeks! Life and leadership is full of…

  • Pictograms: 2012 London Olympics

    wiedemar
    19 Oct 2009 | 9:51 am
    The pictograms for the 2012 Olympics – those tiny stick figures swimming and shooting guns – have been unveiled: The modern pentathlon is pretty cool. There’s also what they’re calling the “dynamic” version: Some vintage editions: Tokyo 1964. Mexico 1968. Munich 1980. Barcelona 1992. Sydney 2000. Beijing 2008. (Via CR Blog)
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  • Winter Snow in Beijing

    21 Nov 2009 | 6:44 am
    The weather has turned decidedly wintry in Beijing.Evening temperatures are below freezing.Hotels in BeijingTagsBeijing Weather China Weather

  • Viva Now Photography Studio

    20 Nov 2009 | 3:55 am
    November 21 - December 12, 2009 VivaNow Gallery. Patty Hudak will exhibit her black & white drawings.Click on the image to enlarge it.Hotels in BeijingBooks on China and BeijingBeijing PersonalsTagsPhotography

  • Chinggis Beer

    14 Nov 2009 | 6:33 am
    Chinggis Beer is the local brew in Mongolia, named, of course, after Mongolia's greatest hero, Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan).Chinggis Beer is brewed according to the regulations of the Reinheitsgebot - the historic German Purity Law. Enjoy and watch your steppe after you've had a few.Chinggis BeerHotels in BeijingBooks on China and BeijingBeijing PersonalsTagsMongolia Beer

  • JZ Club Shanghai

    11 Nov 2009 | 5:04 am
    JZ Club46 West Fuxing RoadTel: +86 21 6431 0269上海市徐汇区复兴西With live music daily and a great atmosphere, this is Shanghai's premiere jazz venue.Image © Daniel AllenHotels in ShanghaiBooks on China and BeijingShanghai PersonalsTagsShanghai Jazz

  • The Beijing Kung Fu Show

    4 Nov 2009 | 5:08 pm
    Discount Kung Fu Show Tickets - Red TheaterAt Diana’s Ticket Agency – The cheapest tickets in BeijingPhone number: (+86) 13671369234E-mail: bookingticket@hotmail.comThe Beijing Kung Fu Show The Legend of Kung Fu The Legend of Kung Fu follows the story of a young boy found wandering outside an ancient temple. Like every boy in China, he dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master. On the road to enlightenment the young monk encounters many difficulties and temptations.The show has English subtitles shown above the stage to keep you informed of the story line. The actors do not speak, the show is…
 
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  • Liverpool Tickets Fast and Easy

    22 Nov 2009 | 5:47 am
    Tradition and a huge fan base has been Liverpool FC's saving grace despite the fact that the football team's English title drought has spanned for almost two decades. Fans have snapped up Liverpool tickets year in and year out because their followers firmly believe that the 3rd winningest Premier league team can once again reign supreme and overtake AC Milan and Real Madrid in the European titles race. A 19th English title is also another goal in sight for the boys of Liverpool. Liverpool FC tickets however, are very hard to come by especially away games where only limited seats are available…

  • Choosing the Right Business Entity [Digg]

    10 Nov 2009 | 1:07 pm
    A look at the advantages and disadvantages of five business entities.

  • VP Biden Leads Discussion on Middle Class Families in D.C. [Digg]

    9 Nov 2009 | 11:33 pm
    On Thursday at the Center for American Progress in Washington D.C., Vice President Biden moderated an in-depth discussion focusing on the long-term, structural challenges facing middle class families in today’s economy. Joined by a panel of policy experts, the group focused on broader issues such as the overall labor market in recent decades...

  • Rockface Rescue [Digg]

    9 Nov 2009 | 11:13 pm
    It is a very well presented game of balance where it is necessary to steer a helicopter and recover victims.

  • Arthur Benjamin, The Mathemagician Or Man Calculator, Wow [Digg]

    9 Nov 2009 | 10:59 am
    The man calls himself a mathemagician and can do 5 digit squares faster than you can type it in a calculator.
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  • Eagle and Drake soar off to Canada

    Ollie Williams (BBC Sport)
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:45 am
    The winter season is now going strong, and athletes all over the world have a chance to show that their Winter Olympic ambitions are more than just talk. It is up to the GB team to prove, as the Winter Olympics is threatened with relegation from UK TV's free-to-air list, that the British public have plenty to get excited about from their sofas come February. Last week, Eleanor Oldroyd suggested one reason to watch: the propensity for Winter Olympic events to go horribly, entertainingly, wrong. As she was writing that, British skeleton's Kristan Bromley produced another reason: the chance of a…

  • How important are big sports events to a country's identity?

    Roger Mosey (BBC Sport)
    16 Nov 2009 | 2:15 am
    Most of the people I meet - and last week's itinerary included Southampton, Manchester and Leeds - are in favour of the Olympic Games being staged in London. It's the circles I move in, I know: in the nature of my job I comparatively rarely come across the sport-rejectors and 2012 sceptics. But there's polling evidence that the UK's pro-Olympians are in a majority - and these Games are, in any case, emphatically on their way. You can see just how much progress is being made on the official webcams.The 2012 Aquatics Centre recently saw its roof lifted into place The question popping up often…

  • British sport can have its own Berlin Wall moment

    Adrian Warner (BBC Sport)
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:45 am
    I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on 9 November - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics. I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn, when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode. The story that flashed around the world in seconds had a simple message - East German citizens could now leave the country without a visa. But what it really meant was that the Berlin Wall had just crashed down before our…

  • Winter Olympians back in action

    Ollie Williams (BBC Sport)
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:41 am
    We're now less than 100 days away from the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin in the Canadian city of Vancouver on 12 February. As a member of our Olympics reporting team and an ice hockey commentator, I'll be in Vancouver (and Whistler) alongside Rob Hodgetts and Anna Thompson, covering the Games for the BBC Sport website. But the Games won't just emerge out of nothing. The world's top winter sports athletes are already getting stuck into the winter season - there is action all over the place as they cram in training sessions and try to get the kind of results, and confidence, that will see…

  • Vancouver lights the way for London

    Roger Mosey (BBC Sport)
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:12 am
    Another big milestone has been passed. The population's getting excited, and a key symbol of the Olympic movement is on its way to the site of the next Games. Yep, things are moving in Canada. It's now fewer than 100 days to the start of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the journey of the Olympic torch has begun. I should say I love Canada. How can you not be won over by a country with places called Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat? I've had a number of holidays over there and I'm particularly fond of British Columbia, the province that will be hosting the games in Vancouver and up in the…
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  • By the numbers, Alissa Czisny's short program adds up to excellence

    Newsdesk
    20 Nov 2009 | 1:35 pm
    In the for-what-it's-worth department, a few points of reference about the personal-best score reigning U.S. champion Alissa Czisny racked up in today's short program at Skate Canada in Kitchener: 1. Skate Canada is the last of the six regular-season Grand Prix events, and Czisny's short-program total, 63.52, has been topped by just two other women on the circuit this season: Yuna Kim of South Korea (76.08 in Paris, 76.28 in Lake Placid) and Joannie Rochette of Canada (70.0 today to beat Czisny.) 2. It bettered Czisny's previous personal best, which came in 2005, by a…

  • Belbin looks like an Olympic medalist. But we say the winner is . . .

    Newsdesk
    19 Nov 2009 | 4:02 pm
    (Judge for yourself whether ice dancer Tanith Belbin gets style points for this.  Photo courtesy Men's Health magazine.) A few figure skating observations as the Grand Prix series heads into its last event before the Dec. 4-5 final in Tokyo: *Over dinner Sunday night in Lake Placid, five reporters who will be covering figure skating at the 2010 Olympics agreed to hazard predictions on the Winter Games medals. I decided to come up with an aggregate of our picks by assigning five points for a prediction of gold, three for silver, one for bronze. I know the whole thing is very…

  • Feathers flying, gender bending ... only in figure skating

    Newsdesk
    15 Nov 2009 | 12:11 pm
    Ten things I have learned after three days at Skate America: 1. Vera Wang designed the costume that reigning world champion Evan Lysacek is wearing while performing his short program to Stravinsky's "Firebird.'' Lysacek was skeptical about the feathers Wang hung from the gloved wrists when he first saw them, but now thinks of them as a good fit with the Stravinsky piece. "Stravinsky is sort of a bizarre artist,'' Lysacek said. "The accent of the feathers adds to that.'' 2. Bizarre hand coverings are hardly unusual in men's figure…

  • Stephen Colbert endorsement has fast effect on U.S. Speedskating coffers

    Newsdesk
    10 Nov 2009 | 4:13 pm
    By Philip Hersh The deal all but fell into U.S. Speedskating's lap. And it quickly has made the sport's athletes feel more confident they won't be lapped by the competition in this Olympic year for financial reasons. I'm talking about the fundraising arrangement between the Colbert Report and the speedskating federation, making the Colbert Nation the official sponsor of U.S. Speedskating. It was announced Nov. 2 on the show, barely a week after the U.S. media -- me among them -- reported that the collapse of Dutch bank DSB had left a $300,000 hole in the federation's…

  • To gain long-term clout, U.S. needs longer term for Olympic boss

    Newsdesk
    9 Nov 2009 | 9:50 am
    Larry Probst needs to be the U.S. Olympic Committee chairman for at least eight years. That is the only way to begin addressing issues highlighted in postmortems after the dismal failures of the last two U.S. bids to host a Summer Olympics. 1.  The United States has no clout in the Olympic world. 2.  The U.S. Olympic Committee leadership has changed so frequently in the past decade it has developed none of the relationships to create such clout. The current situation: The United States has ZERO presidents of international federations with sports still on the Olympic program. And ZERO places…
 
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