Just some of the latest headlines I want to share that talks about Olympic dreams, World Cup wins and athlete improvements.
Toby sets his sights on Olympics
Sail Melbourne: Finn Gold Cup last chance for Qingdao berth
Newly confident Friedman heads into LA World Cup
SLC’s Lund wins World Cup skeleton race
Happy reading!
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Vancouver, BC - 17 January 2008 - The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) will hold a press conference today in Langley, British Columbia, to announce a new contract and an Official Supplier sponsorship.
What: […]
Madrid, January 15th 2008
- The Madrid 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games would bring an intense and powerful social regeneration process in the Spanish capital.
- The effects of this regeneration, as the Mayor said: “are going to be […]
15 January 2008 - The public consultation process of the virtual Olympic Congress was officially launched today on the Olympic Movement website. This is the first time in the history of Olympic Congresses that the general public can submit their views on the topics under consideration. An analysis of these contributions will be conducted, and […]
14 January 2008 - The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that all seven cities applying to host the Games of the XXXI Olympiad in 2016 have returned their Application Files, which contain their responses to the IOC Candidature Acceptance Procedure questionnaire.
Chicago (USA), Prague (Czech Republic), Tokyo (Japan), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Baku (Azerbaijan), Doha […]
11 January 2008 — Representatives from the three government levels and Brazilian Olympic Committee deliver Rio 2016 Bid applicant files at IOC headquarters in Lausanne
Important authorities of the Federal, State and City governments and Brazilian Olympic Committee were this Friday at the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, in Lausanne, Switzerland, to hand-deliver the documentation […]
The 4th IOC World Conference on Women and Sport will be held in Jordan from 8-10 March 2008. It will focus on the topic, “Sport as a vehicle for social change” and will be discussed by participants universities, goverments, NGOS, the Olympic Movement, etc numbering in the hundreds.
Reports on the progress made, analysis, recommendations plus […]
Starting from 2 February, discover the colours of China at The Olympic Museum to celebrate the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. Exhibitions, shows, events, films, demonstrations, current events and conferences: an exciting programme lasting until the end of October.
Right now, the Olympic Museum is under renovation since 07 January. Repairs is scheduled to last till […]
It may come with a bit of bias since I am keeping a blog on the Olympics but, hey, read the reasons perhaps you’ll find them reason enough to love this, too.
#1 The Olympics is a great way to measure the superiority of an athlete’s skill.
#2 The Olympics is a grand event that brings countries […]
(BEIJING, January 4) — The organizing committee for three “Good Luck Beijing” sport events to be held at the National Aquatics Center in the first half of 2008 was formed on Friday.
The National Aquatics Center is an important venue for the Beijing Olympic Games, second only to the National Stadium.
To examine its capabilities for the […]
The Olympic Torch is just part of what Light the Torch covers. We discuss the coming Beijing Olympics as well as future and past Olympic Games, Olympic athletes, and Olympics issues and news.
Written by Sandy Mitchell [email] for b5media.
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