Olympics

Source: luishipolito.blogspot.com --- 3 hours ago
A Russian deputy prime minister said the country's environmentalists are aiming to "trash" the 2014 Olympics in Russia's Black Sea resort city of Sochi instead of taking "a constructive stance". Russia's independent environmentalists have been protesting against developers' plans for Sochi, warning they could damage the unique landscape of the region, where some territories are protected as natural UNESCO World Heritage Sites. "I call on all participants of non-governmental organizations to take a constructive stance. It would be more beneficial, both for the environment and for the professional objectives they are pursuing," Dmitry Kozak said. The high-ranking official said that a recent report prepared by inspectors from international NGOs also pointed out that Russian environmentalists are uncooperative and obstruct preparations for the 2014 Olympics. "Instead of solving real ecological issues and proposing measures of compensation these people are maintaining an absolutely uncooperative stance, something international experts from global non-governmental organizations have pointed out," Kozak said. Sochi won the right to host the Olympics at an IOC session in Guatemala in July 2007 after a close race with South Korea's Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg. Russia has never hosted the Winter Olympics and Moscow's hosting of the Summer Games in 1980 was marred by a U.S.-led boycott involving more than 60 countries. MOSCOW, March 12 R ...

Source: garmin.blogs.com --- 5 hours ago
  By Ed Leigh On our pilgrimage to the Winter Olympics from the most northern town in British Columbia, we stopped at the old gold mining town of Stewart. In the town museum we read the story of a Nass River Indian who had been on the run from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for 15 years, living off the land and surviving the harsh winter environment. Soon it would be our turn to experience the great Canadian outdoors in winter. The original plan was to trek across country from the top of the Jervis inlet crossing 40km to the newly-built Whistler Olympic park home of the Ski Jumping hills and Nordic skiing tracks. We put the word out that we were looking for a guide for the trip and only one man got back to us with a positive response. Scott Flavelle, a mountain guide with experience in television production experience. His CV lists his role as chief advisor to the Eco Challenge the ultra-tough worldwide endurance race. The only downside with our original plan was that Scott estimated with the amount of trail breaking needed we would be looking at a seven-day trip. We would need to manage our expectations slightly. Scott suggested an alternative would be to drop in by helicopter into the back of the Garibaldi National Park, on the Spearhead range then ski tour for four days, ending the trip by skiing down into the town of Whistler. We would need to carry our own food, stoves, fuel, tents, sleeping bags etc and in total our packs w ...

Source: www.treehugger.com --- 6 hours ago
Images by B. Alter from the film Memory Marathon For all of those suffering Olympic withdrawal (that means most Canadians) we bring you the Memory Marathon. It's part of the cultural offerings of London's upcoming summer Olympics in 2012 . It is about the importance of personal memories, in this case those of past Olympics. The artist Simon Pope walked a specially planned 26 mile marathon through the five London boroughs where the Olympics will take place. He s... Read the full story on TreeHugger ...

Source: www.myplick.com --- 7 hours ago
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Source: www.currybet.net --- 7 hours ago
function googleTranslateElementInit() { new google.translate.TranslateElement({ pageLanguage: 'en', includedLanguages: 'de,fr' }, 'google_translate_element'); } Over the last week or so I've been reviewing online newspaper coverage of the recent Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics . In the final part of this series, I want to look at elements of coverage in Germany and Canada, and present an overview video with some clips of the sites in action. Discrete Facebook presence from Bild Bild had added Olympia 2010 to their main navigation. There was also a prominent promo presence for a German Olympia 2010 group on Facebook . One of the things that I found very interesting about this is that above the fold on Facebook it was not branded 'Bild' at all. It is only lower down the page that the association with Germany's biggest tabloid paper becomes clear. The Bild site also had a Flash interactive. this included live text coverage, and the Bild Backstage section which I mentioned when looking at Twitter coverage of the games on Wednesday . Bild also offered the enticing promise of 'Sportstätten in 3-D'. Rather than donning some special glasses, however, this appeared to just be schematics of buildings turned at a slight angle to add some perspective. Staying in Germany, sueddeutsche.de also offered a 'live-ticker' portal. This was made up of lots of elements in one fixed size pop-up, which didn't work too well on my Mac, as I wasn't able to scr ...