Visualized Vancouver 2010 Tweets
During last week's broadcast of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, NBC set up a fun Twitter tracker for the mega global winter sports event. It represents tweets about each sport in a visual interface.
The Olympic Twitter Tracker, developed by Stamen Design, is an amusing addition to the standard tweet stream, which was provided by NBC as well. The feature was presented on the Twitter bog a couple weeks ago, and Twitter posted a video demo (below).
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Snowboarding Olympic Champion Shaun White bust out his new "Double McTwist 1260" trick at the final Grand Prix practice session under the lights at Park City, Utah! Congratulations Shaun for winning the Gold Medal again yesterday for the USA!!!
Lindsey Vonn lived up to expectations and won the Olympic downhill Wednesday, ahead of childhood rival and American teammate Julia Mancuso. Vonn is the first American skier to win the most important event in skiing beating the dominance of the European women. USA go 1-2 with a Gold and Silver medal!
Ahead of the 2010 Winter Olympics, the gold medal favorite in alpine skiing, Lindsey Vonn, hit the slopes with the reporter Bill Pennington from the New York Times. She spoke about crashing, recovery and being the fastest woman on the mountain.
Lindsey Vonn is not only hot, she is a skiing athletic beast!!! What a champion. A couple days ago she revealed to the world press that is currently injured from a bad training fall a couple weeks ago, but I think she will "shake it off" and win at least one gold medal for the U.S Ski Team at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games.
Lindsey Vonn becomes the first American woman ever to win two overall world cup crowns after capturing her eighth downhill race of the season and second downhill title in Are, Sweden in March 2009. Lindsey Vonn is the greatest female ski racers United States has ever produced. She is currently the best woman skier in the world!
Go Lindsey! Go U.S. Men's and Women's Olympic Ski Racing Team at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games!!!
Here is the sexy Sports Illustrated video of hot 25 year old American ski racer Lindsey Vonn. Lindsey Vonn is not only a pretty face but she is also a champion. Vonn is in fact the 2008 and current 2009 Overall World Cup Ski Racing Champion - the best female skier in the world! She is like the Michael Phelps of ski racing but a lot better looking and she actually has a personality (Phelps doesn't). Baring any last minute injuries, Vonn is favorite to win 3 gold medals at the Vancouver Winter Olympic 2010 Games in British Colombia, Canada. She is overwhelming favorite to win the Women's Downhill - "Queen of the Mountain".
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Here is the hot photo album of Lindsey Vonn on SI Swimsuit 2010!
Here is a beautiful video of the unveiling of the gorgeous athlete medals of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
The Games in Vancouver and Whistler Blackcomb in British Colombia, Canada starts tonight with the spectacular Opening Ceremony.
With the much anticipated 2010 Winter Olympics in British Colombia, Canada just a few weeks away. The eternal question pops up again but with a twist in last month's DVD release of docu-drama classic Downhill Racer. The film asks those of us with some talent and ability - "How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?"
The 1969 sports classic movie "Downhill Racer" starting a very young Robert Redford tries to answer this pondering question that all of us with a crumb of talent and ability ask ourselves everyday. How much ambition to you have in you to take your talent and ability to the next level? Can you take it to the highest level in your chosen field or career? At what cost?
What if you get to the top and you find out you never really left from where you started?
What gets me about this classic sports/love movie is that Gene Hackman has hair!!!
According to Hollywood critics, Downhill Racer is the best sports movie ever produced with some of the most spectacular ski scenes ever filmed. It is not really a sports movie par se (Olympic downhill ski racing is just the setting), but more of a romantic drama told in documentary style in exotic ski locations like the Lauberhorn at Wengen, Switzerland and the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuhel, Austria. Also included were Megeve, France and St. Anton, Austria.
25 year old former Swedish glamour beauty and actress of the 60's Camilla Sparv in 1965.
Here is what Image Entertainment wrote about the movie:
"Astonishing Alpine location photography and a young Robert Redford in one of his earliest starring roles are just two of the visual splendors of Michael Ritchie's visceral debut feature, DOWNHILL RACER. In a beautifully understated performance, Redford is David Chappellet, a ruthlessly ambitious skier competing with an underdog American team in Europe for Olympic gold, and Gene Hackman provides tough support as the coach who tries to temper the upstart's narcissistic drive for glory. With a subtle screenplay by acclaimed novelist James Salter, DOWNHILL RACER is a vivid character portrait buoyed by breathtakingly fast and furious imagery that brings the viewer directly into the mind of the competitor."
Very Short List wrote last month of the new DVD release of Downhill Racer:
"Just weeks after Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid made Robert Redford into a megastar in 1969, the actor turned up in a very different kind of picture—a documentary-style movie about a fearless skier with an all-consuming desire for Olympic gold. Downhill Racer (available from Criterion 11/17) shows Redford at his early best: outrageously charming, naturally physical and unrelentingly sexy.
Much of Downhill Racer—which was directed by Michael Ritchie, who reteamed with Redford in 1972 for The Candidate—is
a sort of thrill ride: Cameras mounted to actual skiers provided
bird’s-eye footage of what it’s like to careen down slopes at what
looks like a million miles an hour. Sure, there’s a love interest, and
a rival or two, but the film focuses mostly on the development of one
great undisciplined athlete into a bona fide star. Plus, Redford’s
coach is played by a young Gene Hackman, who gives us a peek at the guy
we love so much in Hoosiers."
32 year old Robert Redford on location in the Swiss Alps for Downhill Racer in 1969.
A young 40 year old Gene Hackman with hair - Un joven de 40 años Gene Hackman con pelo!
Here is the website and short video of one of the United States' greatest ski resort - Squaw Valley USA.
Squaw Valley Ski Resort is Tahoe's most expansive resort has 33 lifts that access 4000 acres of legendary terrain. The resort hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics and that spirit lives on today. This season join in the fun as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of those Olympic games and the 60th anniversary of the resort's opening.
Looking at the Squaw Valley Tram with beautiful Lake Tahoe, CA. in the background!!!
The Mother Ship & me
After a hard & fun day of skiing the runs below "The Mothership" - KT - 22 lift at Squaw Valley USA! The greatest (most difficult) chair lift in America!!!
Castellano (Español)
Despues de un duro dia de diversion en las pistas de esqui por debajo de "The Mothership" (la Madre Nave) - KT-22 de elevacion en Squaw Valley USA! La grua mas grande (difícil) de esqui en los Estados Unidos!
High Camp @ El. 8,200 ft (2,499 meters)
Features - Spectacular views of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada, ice skate at the Olympic Ice Pavilion, learn a little more about the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at the Olympic Museum, enjoy the Snowtubing Arena, drink at the Poolside Umbrella Bar, and soak up the Sierra Nevada sun in the Swimming Lagoon & Spa (opens for the Spring and Summer).
Look toward the Siberia ski lift at Squaw Valley USA.
At top of Granite Peak, Squaw Valley USA - Windbuffed.
17 Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements
Originally posted on Smashing Applications by AN Jay
August 21, 2008
Today, we are compiling a list of 17 Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements. In this post, you can see how different companies conveyed their marketing/promotion message for their products or services for the Olympic season. They want their customers to enjoy the spirits and adventures of Olympic with them.
You are welcome to share if you know more Beijing 2008 Olympic Advertisements which our readers/viewers may like.
