From UK Sport WHO: Amy Williams, Olympic Champion, Bob Skeleton Andreas Schmid, Performance Director, British Skeleton Dr Scott Drawer, Head of Research and Innovation, UK Sport WHEN: Thursday 4 March at 10:30 for briefing, 11:30 for photo-call with Amy Williams
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26 Feb
2010
2010
Naked shots, curling brooms and $24 beers
VANCOUVER DIARY: Tweeting, cheer-leading and gold medal sex all get a look in as the Winter Olympics come to a close Remember the bad old days of boycotts and protests, and blokes in blazers emploring anyone who would listen to “keep politics out of sport”? Well, what with Tiger, Terry and Cashley, it may not [...]
Continue reading →VANCOUVER DIARY: The SJA’s man on the piste, NEIL WILSON of the Daily Mail, reports from Whistler on how Olympic mixed zone arrangements put the poor bloody infantry of the written press at the back of the queue At least by Thursday, the British media had somewhere to go where there was a potential medal-winner: [...]
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17 Feb
2010
2010
Bus stops, the wrong wax and Cindy Crawford
VANCOUVER DIARY: For the past decade, a word no one who is connected with staging an Olympic Games wants to hear is “Atlanta”. But it is being whispered in Whistler as criticisms mount Canadians have long been accused of having a form of inferiority complex because of their bigger neighbours to the south (take a [...]
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16 Feb
2010
2010
Downhill all the way with BBC in Vancouver
VANCOUVER DIARY: Dealing with death on the luge track, and a set of sporting events largely unknown and misunderstood in Britain, has seen the BBC struggle in its early coverage of the Winter Olympics, writes MICHAEL BUTCHER In case anyone has wondered if passers-by find it funny when a television presenter wanders through a crowd [...]
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13 Feb
2010
2010
Snow-less Vancouver on long road to London
VANCOUVER DIARY: Notes and observations from SJA members covering the Winter Olympics in Canada It’s all downhill from here. The Vancouver Winter Olympics get underway today, with the 3,000-strong press corps settling down to working either in the city centre’s Main Press Centre, or, as Neil Wilson notes in his Daily Mail blog, 78 miles [...]
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10 Feb
2010
2010
Ziegler carries a torch for Vancouver Games
PA Sport’s Martyn Ziegler fulfilled a life-long ambition in Vancouver yesterday, when he carried the Olympic torch for a leg of the relay ahead of Friday’s Winter Games opening ceremony.
Continue reading →The near-3,000 media personnel arriving in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics, which begin later this week, have been angered to discover that the usual levels of Olympian profiteering at their expense have extended even to the Games organisers, who are charging more than £150 for two weeks’ internet access.
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