Great Britain’s Olympic men’s rowing four.
Which Olympic athletes go on to be most successful in business? New research by Bain & Co. shows rowers have the best track record of breaking into the corporate world after their Olympic careers.
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Preparations are already underway to secure the online credentials of the 2012 Olympics, with the announcement that that Metropolitan Police is in the midst of setting up two specialist web-based teams.
In a bid to smoke out e-crime and ticketing fraud on the web, the Met will put two teams in place: one to stop hackers from getting into the Olympics’ computer systems and the other to try and combat the influx of fraudulent tickets online.
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Lindsey Vonn wins downhill gold medal
As other top skiers crashed around her, Vail’s Lindsey Vonn on Wednesday survived to become the first U.S. female Olympic downhill gold medal champion. (Pics)
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First there was the Google car, which roamed the roads of Britain to build up a Street View perspective of the nation.
Then came the Google Trike, powered by super-strong employees to chart harder to reach areas such as Stone Henge.
Now the internet search giant has headed to the mountains with the Google snowmobile…
Continue reading… “Google Street View Snowmobile Gives a Slopes-Eye-View of Winter Olympics Resort”
The Winter Olympics are traditionally dominated by athletes from countries where winter brings freezing temperatures and snow, but that hasn’t stopped a number of athletes from more tropical climates from infiltrating the ranks of the (c)old guard. From the Jamaican bobsled team to an Indian luger, here are 10 stories of warm-weather Winter Olympians, including a few who will compete in Vancouver next month.
1. The Jamaican Bobsled Team (pic above)
Perhaps the most famous of all warm-weather Winter Olympians, the Jamaican bobsled team that inspired the 1993 film Cool Runnings made its debut in Calgary in 1988. Republican politician George Fitch, a former U.S. government attaché in Kingston who is currently serving as the mayor of Warrenton, Va., founded the original team…
Vancouver will be front and center thanks to the Winter Olympic Games
As the Great Recession kept more travelers tethered and a thwarted Christmas Day terror attack ramped up security concerns, 2009 was an annus horribilus for the travel industry. What’s on the horizon for 2010? USA TODAY’s Laura Bly dusts off a crystal globe.
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Companies constantly try to woo urban youth, a segment admired by marketers for its substantial disposable income and trend setting tendencies. So given all this, when a raw concept like a youth centric store that’s likely to be developed by Columbus Ohio based Chute Gerderman, its bound to create some hype! The concept named ‘UnionJac’ inspired from the British culture is a clothing, salon, cafe and hangout joint, all merged with interactive technology to make it more appealing for the shoppers.
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Athletes aren’t the only ones racing against the clock this week in Beijing. A team of skilled scientists is working 24 hours a day at a drug-testing lab in Beijing’s Olympic Sports Center, analyzing approximately 4,500 blood and urine samples for banned substances. Their work is part of an ever-evolving arms race between scientists and sports cheats who try to stay one step ahead of the latest detection methods.
Continue reading… “How To Detect Olympic Cheats”
According to the Beijing Times, 55 seconds of the televised Olympics 2008 firework display? Completely fake:
Anyone who saw the opening to the Bejing Olympics would agree that the fireworks display was exceptional, but those watching at home were tricked into thinking what they saw was real, when some of it was actually CGI.
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A new collection of photos shows the winners and losers of the Olympics boom in China. Will the Games be a blessing or a disaster for Beijing? The answer may not be known for months or even years. (Pics)
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The facade of China Central Television Headquarters is now complete, just in time to look pretty tomorrow, when the world turns its eyes on Beijing’s Olympic Games.
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The New York Times has a really neat gallery of the Olympic torches and their histories, from the one used in Summer Olympic Games in Berlin, 1936 to today’s Beijing Olympics.
Continue reading… “Olympic Torches Throughout History”
