Posts tagged: Sports

Go Phelps

By , August 14, 2008 11:16 pm

Once again, an advertiser has missed out on some key opportunities by not making their videos easily sharable. Visa’s campaign, Go World, for the Olympics is really cute, involves a lot of feel good commercials and an in-depth site with athletes’ background stories. However, none of the videos can be embedded and there’s no one place (i.e. a YouTube Channel) where you can view all the commercials.

Thanks to this, below is the best I could find. Congratulations to Michael Phelps! I’m impressed by the perseverance, humbleness and maturity he’s shown in these Olympics. Here’s to two more World Record times and Gold Medals!

Ironman

By , August 13, 2008 1:53 pm

I recently updated my five year plan. I’m not a big fan of five year plans- too much committment – but mine was about two years outdated and in need of some serious revisions.

Anyway, when comparing the “old” and the “new”, there was only one item that stayed the same… qualify for the Ironman World Championships. I always push it back because it requires some serious endurance training. But, after today’s practice, I don’t think it would be as hard as I always make it out to be. I’d have to add some distance to the running, throw in a few more open water swims and add biking back to the routine. Easy cheesy.

Opening Ceremony Trivia

By , August 9, 2008 12:18 pm

I love random trivia. Here’s some about the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in Beijing:

  • 11,000 athletes and 204 nations with 87 of them never having a medal winner will partake in the 2008 Summer Olympics
  • 15,000 performers took part
  • Dancers trained for eight months
    Film maker, Zhang Yimou choreographed all the performances
  • 91,000 spectators
  • This was the most expensive Opening Ceremonies to date and ten times more expensive than the Opening Ceremonies at Athens
  • 92% of revenue generated goes towards the staging of the Olympic Games
  • This is the first Opening Ceremonies to be live “tweeted
  • Beijing is the largest country to ever host the Olympics
  • Ralph Lauren designed the outfits American athletes wore during the ceremonies
  • Judo athlete, Ricardo Blas from Guam is the largest Olympic athlete to date at six feet tall and 399 pounds

Check out great pictures of the Opening Ceremonies courtesy of The Big Picture.

[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.656697&w=425&h=350&fv=allowFullScreen%3Dtrue%26]

Panorama Theme by Themocracy