Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label olympics. Show all posts
May 7, 2010
"Princeton grad chases Olympics, fights hunger"
G-Movement: Chris Smith from Action Against Hunger USA on Vimeo.
Every week or so, I check the Cincy Enquirer's website ad search for any Princeton-related articles. This week I got lucky and found an article headlined "Princeton Grad Chases Olympics, Fights Hunger" about a Sharonville man who must've graduated from PHS just a year or two before I arrived there, Chris Smith.
Smith was a wrestler and pole vaulter at PHS who then headed on to UC where he has since earned his masters and come within three inches of qualifying for the US Olympic team in 2008. Now, however, he's working on qualifying for the Jamaican team as his Dad was Jamaican and would set a Jamaican national record if he reaches his personal best of 5.50 meters (~18 feet).
He's also fundraising for Action Against Hunger and is one of five athletes sponsored through Gatorade's G Movement program.
Feel free to check his blog and chuck in a buck or two if you have extra lying around.
March 1, 2010
Old medals
I absolutely love the design of the Olympic medals at the Vancouver games (just finished, actually enjoyed the hell out of watching about 2/3 of the gold medal game, surprisingly).
The weirdness of the use of the third dimension is just gorgeous, "inspired by the ocean waves, drifting snow and mountainous landscape found in the Games region and throughout Canada."
My appreciation of this year's medals sent me looking for the designs of the past games' medals, and - thanks to yahoo answers - I found a gallery showing every one.
I wish that the gallery would show the backs of the medals, because I'm thinking they might have some kind of variety - more than that of the summer medal fronts. Instead, you just have to click on each one to see the back of that year's medals.
I'm a little disappointed at how boring the summer medal fronts are, but at least some of the backs are a little different.
The winter medals, on the other hand, provided a lot of visual interest. I particularly love the medals of Torino, Nagano, and Albertville. Wonder if there's some sort of rule that the summer medals have to look pretty much the same ever Olympiad, 'cause they suck.
The weirdness of the use of the third dimension is just gorgeous, "inspired by the ocean waves, drifting snow and mountainous landscape found in the Games region and throughout Canada."
My appreciation of this year's medals sent me looking for the designs of the past games' medals, and - thanks to yahoo answers - I found a gallery showing every one.
I wish that the gallery would show the backs of the medals, because I'm thinking they might have some kind of variety - more than that of the summer medal fronts. Instead, you just have to click on each one to see the back of that year's medals.
I'm a little disappointed at how boring the summer medal fronts are, but at least some of the backs are a little different.
The winter medals, on the other hand, provided a lot of visual interest. I particularly love the medals of Torino, Nagano, and Albertville. Wonder if there's some sort of rule that the summer medals have to look pretty much the same ever Olympiad, 'cause they suck.
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