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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 …
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Press Clippings: A great schedule of events for Friday’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.
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 …
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. …
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 …
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.
2014 Sochi Olympics Results as of 10AM CST, 12 February 2014
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. …
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 …
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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