Press Clippings: A schedule of events for Tuesday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing.
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Olympic Briefing: Ski Cross
Press Clippings: Ski Cross is considered a “freestyle skiing” discipline (i.e. like slope style, aerials) even though it also requires the skills typically associated with Alpine Skiing (expert navigation down a course and timed competition against other skiers). A ski cross course includes natural downhill runs combined with jumps and other man-made obstacles. On television, …
Olympic Briefing: Schedule 17 February 2014
Press Clippings: A schedule of events for Monday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing. Also-Please note that this schedule does not necessarily reflect the postponements of the …
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The Olympic Film Festival
The Olympics are in full swing and we’re at the mid-point of the games. We’ve all seen enough know to know the big stories and big players. Through the Olympic Briefing series of Posts, we’ve been able to highlight the key elements of each of the big competition groups in the games, the concept …
Olympic Briefing: Curling
Press Clippings: Curling is–surprise–one of the most popular Olympic sports, even though it may not be one of the most widely or instantly understood. The best analogy for curling is shuffleboard. The idea is simple: slide a highly polished stone (known as a “rock”) across a sheet of ice and into a target area. But …
Olymic Briefing: Schedule 16 February
Press Clippings: A great schedule of events for Sunday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing.
Olympic Briefing: Slalom Skiing
Press Clippings: Ted Ligety is one of the top U.S. Alpine skiers and one of our best hopes for an Alpine medal in the Sochi Olympics. Ligety was 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist in the combined and four time World Cup giant slalom champion. To give you some perspective of what’s involved in the alpine skiing …
Olympic Briefing: Medal Count
2014 Sochi Olympics Results as of 6 PM CST, 14 February 2014
Olympic Briefing: Say What?
Press Clippings: As the Olympics get deeper into the heart of the competition schedule, figure skating is going to move to the head of the line. Along with figure skating will come the figure skating commentators, who will toss out a series of terms, nomenclatures, and phrases that are indecipherable to anyone but…..figure skating commentators. …
Olympic Briefing: Figure Skating
Press Clippings: The next wave of endorsement queens is headed your way from Sochi. Although the formal name in the United States is the Women’s Figure Skating Competition at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, we in America already know–or will soon know–these competitors as endorsers for everything from breakfast cereal to energy drinks to airlines. Hey, …