Archive for 'Olympics'
Olympic Sports - a rant
Last week the IOC Executive Board took a vote on which 2 sports out of 7 finalists to recommend to all the IOC members to include as Olympic sports from 2016. I’m still a bit confused as to the process of eliminating or adding sports to the Olympics - it seems to be quite fluid, [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2009 under Olympics.
Tags: Baseball, Beach Volleyball, Gender Equality, Golf, Olympics, Rugby 7s, Softball, Sports, Tennis, Uniforms
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Fiji 2016…
Maybe not, but I’ll do my best.
I’m heading to Fiji at the end of February for my next adventure. Despite having the word “Olympic” in my job description, Captain Straya will be staying home.
I’ll be replacing the Captain’s uniform with my serious cap to spend the year as the Media and Communications Officer for the [...]
Posted: January 15th, 2009 under Fiji, Olympics.
Tags: Fiji, Media, Olympics, Work
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One World, One Dream, One People
This is the word cloud my Blog has created (thanks to wordle). I found it interesting to see the overwhelming message is “one people” - perhaps the “One World, One Dream” slogan of the Games made it through to my psyche.
Posted: September 4th, 2008 under Olympics.
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