Olympic Briefing: Giant Slalom

Press Clippings: The Giant Slalom, along with slalom, is considered one of the two technical disciplines of Alpine skiing. The difference between the two is that slalom gates are very closely spaced, requiring extremely quick changes in direction and giant slalom (GS) gates are more widely spaced and taken at a higher speed. Some experts …

Ain’t Nothing You Can Do

“When you got a headache Headache powder soothes the pain Go right back to sleep And you feel all right again When you got a backache A little rubbin’ ‘ll see you through When you got a heartache There ain’t nothin’ you can do There ain’t nothin’ you can do There ain’t nothin’ you can …

Ain't Nothing You Can Do

“When you got a headache Headache powder soothes the pain Go right back to sleep And you feel all right again When you got a backache A little rubbin’ ‘ll see you through When you got a heartache There ain’t nothin’ you can do There ain’t nothin’ you can do There ain’t nothin’ you can …

Olympic Briefing: Spectator ClickPack Update

Press Clippings: About a week ago, we posted the first Spectator ClickPack. The idea was to gather, in one spot,lots of the key information necessary to get the most/see the most/learn the most from the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Time marches on and since we’re in continual research mode here in the Media Bunker, we …

Olympic Briefing: The Cresta Run

Deep Background: In the previous post, I mentioned the legendary Cresta Run, (the previous link to the wiki is repeated)  located in St. Moritz, Switzerland. It was, for a time, the only place where the skeleton sleds ran (1928 and 1948) as an Olympic sport;prior to Olympic inclusion (Skeleton became a permanent Winter Olympic Sport …

Olympic Briefing: Skeleton

Press Clippings: The Olympic Skeleton run is a more traditional type of sledding in which the athlete rides lying face down on a prepared sled run. The sport was put into the Olympics on a permanent basis in 2002; previously, it had been featured in the 1928 and 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland only. …