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Eyes on Beijing

Published on Monday August 11, 2008 in News, Sports and Thoughts. 3 Comments Tags: , , .

The Olympics are finally here. Always one of my favorite events, this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing, China was one of the most hyped ever. As someone who has always been wary of the Chinese, still found myself thoroughly impressed with the opening ceremony. The artistic performance was highly creative and melded clockwork precision with 15,000 performers; the Chinese have seriously set the bar high for future hosts as well as shown the world how far China has come in the last decade. Aside from one tragic story, the games are well run so far.

As of today, China leads not only the overall medal count, but the gold medal count as well (China 9, U.S. 3). While i don’t expect the discrepancy to last for long (espescially once track and field gets under way), I strongly believe that China will give the United States a strong run for it’s money in terms of overall medals.

So far we’ve seen some epic performances, most notably in swimming, fencing and basketball but there are stil nearly two weeks of competition. I typically find myself watching two TV channels at once and stream another event on my computer. You might call me some sort of Olympics addict. Derek posted some stunning photos over on Markfive, and Gizmodo has an interesting read about the opening ceremony here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have 3 screens worth of Olympics to watch!

The best sports interview I’ve seen in a long time

Published on Monday July 7, 2008 in Media, Sports and Video. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

This is an interview with Breaux Greer, 8-time American national champion and American record holder and one of the best javelin throwers in the world. He gives his two cents to Flotrack on not making this year’s Olympic team and doing American Gladiators for “recovery”. This is easily one of the best sports interviews I’ve ever seen. See for yourself:

Classic. Now that the trials are over, I’m looking forward to an awesome Olympic Games.

Update: More on the trials.

Track and field at its best

Published on Friday July 4, 2008 in Media, Pictures, Sports and Video. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

I stumbled accross this photo of the (via Teamstrannon) of the 800M finals at the 2008 U.S. Track and Field Olympic Trials. The race ended in epic fashion as Christian Smith (in the white) laid out at the line to edge out favorite Khadevis Robinson (in the blue) for the final Olympic team spot. This is after Nick Symmonds’ (Oregon Track Club) devastating kick which took him from the back of the pack into first place; University of Oregon sophomore, Andrew Wheating came out of nowhere to take second for an Oregon 1-2-3 sweep.

Dive!

Video after the jump.

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Evil Eyes and Shipping

Published on Wednesday June 25, 2008 in Sports and Technology. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Tinted for enhanced visibilityYesterday, I was at Lenscrafters looking to check out a pair of these Nike Maxsight sport-tinted contact lenses. I think they would have totally creeped out anyone I would run against next outdoor track season. Except they don’t make them anymore. Does any one know of any similar products?

Also, I recently stumbled upon a website called Track the Pack. It allows you to track your packages, but the reason I like this site is because you can track all your packages, regardless of service, in one place. Plus the all FedEx’s website is hideous anyways (not that the other ones are much better). Another cool feature is the ability to save your packages so you can simply log in later to check your packages’ status as opposed to having to copy-and-paste several tracking numbers each time you want to check. Track the Pack also displays a mini Google map to provide a visual as to where your package is geographically. There’s a spiffy webapp for everything nowadays isn’t there?

More videos of me running

Published on Tuesday May 20, 2008 in Media, School, Sports and Video. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Remember that time I qualified for IC4A’s but couldn’t go because it was a relay? Oh and that time I anchored a 4×400 for 3 distance guys… Continue reading ‘More videos of me running’

A few end-of-the-year notes

Published on Friday May 2, 2008 in School, Sports and Thoughts. 0 Comments Tags: , , , .

Life has been pretty busy since spring break ended. I haven’t really had time to post lately but that doesn’t mean nothing has been going on.

  • Today marked the last official day of classes. However, the annual Slope Day festivities were cut short for me due to the track meet tomorrow, and at least partially to the cold rain. I’m at least a little bit bummed out about that.
  • School is tough. So is track. Both of them together? I don’t know how I manage (if you can call it that).
  • I still don’t know how I am getting home. The longer I wait the more of a problem this will be come. Lacking transportation home has been a reoccurring theme this year.
  • CollegeHumor original videos are absolutely great.
  • I have 8 months until I start competing for the next track season. I don’t know if I can make it that long.
  • I got the shaft in CoursEnroll for next semester. I guess that’s what I get for having my first two CoursEnroll experiences go so smoothly.
  • Updating Twitter is a lot easier than doing this.

So I guess my goals for the next couple weeks is to make it out of here alive. Between final papers, finals, and trying to redeem my first track season with a good time in the very last meet, I haven’t gotten much sleep. I suppose sleep should go on that list of goals too. Because I failed to line up anything for me to do this summer, that leaves me asking what everyone else is doing this summer.  I’ll be interested to know who’s around until next semester starts.

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