Paying Attention: Slopestyle Skiing is new to the Winter Olympics in 2014. It’s the skiing equivalent of slopestyle snowboarding, a multi-facet aerobatics competition which has already run. Depending on your coordination, you might consider slopestyle skiing an order of magnitude more difficult than the snowboarding version simply because you have two boards under your feet …
Monthly Archives: February 2014
Olympic Briefing: Schedule 13 February 2014
Press Clippings: A great schedule of events for Thursday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location.
Olympic Briefing: Medal Count
2014 Sochi Olympics Results as of 10AM CST, 12 February 2014
Olympic Briefing: The Luge
Press Clippings: One of the more unusual downhill sports at the upcoming Olympics is the Luge. No doubt you’ve seen it before and said…”what the hell?”. The luge is a small sled that can hold one or two people and is used to run a prepared course, down an icey chute, much like a bobsled run. …
Olympic Briefing: The Firehose
Press Clippings: The New York Time has an incredible advanced still photography initiative going on at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. It’s call The Photo Firehose and it provides a continuous stream of photos from the games, not just from Times photographers but from AP, Reuters, Getty Images,European Press Photo Agency, Agence France-Press and others. It’s …
Olympic Briefing: The History of Bobsledding
Paying Attention: Bob sledding is one of the glamour sports of the Winter Olympics. The History of Olympic Bobsledding video (above) shows the growth of the technology of the sleds and the development of the tracks, but the legendary personality who did so much to make the sport popular, the peerless Eugenio Monti, is not singled …
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Olympic Briefing: Snowboard Half Pipe
Paying Attention: The snowboard half pipe (joined at this year’s Sochi Winter Olympics by skiing half pipe) is the equivalent of the dry land half pipe beloved by skateboarders. The idea is deceptively simple: drop in from the top of the pipe, get up some speed, go over the top on the opposite edge, do …
The Handwriting Is On The Tablet
Breaking: This (disturbing) piece of news: Barnes & Noble, which had previous released their VP of Hardware for the Nook project, just let go their entire Nook hardware engineering group. Unable to compete with the Kindle or the iPad, B&N found itself in a very difficult corner with no apparent way out. I applaud their …
Olympic Briefing: Ski Jumping
Paying Attention: Stand at the top of a hill–man made. There are two choices of hill: Normal (i.e. steep and long) and Large(very steep and very long). Either one is capable of inducing a serious fright to even the bravest soul. Next, strap on a pair of special Ski Jumping skis. They’re going to be …
Olympic Briefing: Bobsled
Press Clippings: In an effort to get everyone pumped up for the Sochi Olympics,we’ll continue posting videos that highlight the top sports. Today, let’s go with something that always gets the adrenaline pumping: Bobsled. This time, with a twist, in a run with a bobsled designed/produced by German car maker BMW for the US Team …