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Sept 17, 2004 17:23:10 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Sept 17, 2004 17:23:10 GMT -6
Coinciding with the opening of the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens, NYC2012, the committee leading New York's bid to host the Olympic Games in 2012, today unveiled its Paralympic Plan and announced NYC2012's Paralympic Observer Program delegation. The Paralympic Plan features two major clusters: The Olympic Square, in the heart of Manhattan, with athletics taking place in the Olympic Stadium, wheelchair basketball in Madison Square Garden and wheelchair fencing, judo, powerlifting, wheelchair rugby and table tennis at the Javits Convention Center. Full story: www.sportsfeatures.com/PressPoint/show.php?id=14842
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Sept 18, 2004 22:11:01 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Sept 18, 2004 22:11:01 GMT -6
New York Hopes to Win Olympics by Dividing Votes By DUFF WILSON, New York Times Published: September 19, 2004 After talking privately with nearly every person who will vote on the site of the 2012 Olympics, the people behind New York City's bid for the Summer Games now think they have a realistic chance to win by adopting a divide-and-conquer strategy against the four European capitals with which they are competing. www.nytimes.com/2004/09/19/sports/19olympics.html
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Oct 17, 2004 10:04:23 GMT -6
Post by saberbobcat on Oct 17, 2004 10:04:23 GMT -6
My fingers are crossed!
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Nov 19, 2004 21:16:00 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Nov 19, 2004 21:16:00 GMT -6
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Jul 6, 2005 16:02:32 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Jul 6, 2005 16:02:32 GMT -6
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Jul 6, 2005 17:15:55 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Jul 6, 2005 17:15:55 GMT -6
NYC2016!!!news.yahoo.com/fc/sports/olympicsDisappointed but hardly devastated, New Yorkers responded Wednesday to the demise of the city's 2012 Olympic hopes with an eye toward the 2016 Summer Games and a typically mouthy reaction. We don't need the reassurance from the International Olympic Committee or anyone else that New York is a world-class city," said U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a Democratic mayoral candidate, after London was awarded the games. "We don't need to put New York on the map. It's already the center of the universe."
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Jul 6, 2005 17:25:08 GMT -6
Post by schlager7 on Jul 6, 2005 17:25:08 GMT -6
You've got to love the eternal optimists.
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Aug 14, 2005 22:11:14 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Aug 14, 2005 22:11:14 GMT -6
Well, That's one way to ferret out the competition... USOC Forces 'Ferret Olympics' Name ChangeAssociated Press August 14, 2005[/b] news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050814/ap_on_fe_st/ferret_olympics;_ylt=AllvTeIUtdBHTFYcyeBzZlssQE4F;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUlAfter nine years of slippery, slinky competition, the Ferret Olympics is being forced to change its name — the U.S. Olympic Committee has threatened to sue.
An estimated 75 ferrets will vie for medals at the Ferret Agility Trials on Sunday in events including the tube run and the paper bag escape. Only "they are not Olympians anymore," organizer Melanee Ellis said with a laugh.
Ellis started the Ferret Olympics in 1996, the year of the Atlanta games, as a fundraiser for a local ferret shelter.
The Ferret Olympics didn't attract much attention until the local newspaper reported on it in 2004, Ellis said.
Within two weeks of the story, she received phone calls from the BBC in London, "Late Show with David Letterman," "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and, eventually, the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Ellis, 44, said she could hardly believe the woman on the phone was serious about the threat of a lawsuit for unauthorized use of a trademark.
"I was very, very disappointed and upset about the whole thing," she said.
U.S. Olympic Committee spokesman Darryl Seibel said the committee's legal department on average asks about 50 groups per year to stop using the name Olympics.
"No one is being singled out," Seibel said. "But the accumulated effect of letting that go unchecked would hinder the ability we have to do what we do."
In July, a Minnesota rock band changed its name from the Olympic Hopefuls to the Hopefuls but was allowed to keep its signature track suits. The ImprovOlympic, a comedy club in Chicago, also opted to change its name, to I.O., rather than fight a threatened trademark infringement lawsuit.
As for Ellis and her ferrets, she wishes they had another chance at Olympic gold.
"I'm sure Spaz is the most upset," Ellis said about the top athlete in her ferret lineup. "He never did win a medal at the Olympics. He thought this would be his year."
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NYC2012
Aug 15, 2005 21:58:14 GMT -6
Post by LongBlade on Aug 15, 2005 21:58:14 GMT -6
www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/index_uk.asp?SportCode=FEABOUT Take the romantic, swashbuckling epics of Errol Flynn, add some rules, protective clothing and an electronic scoring system, and you have fencing at the Olympic Games. Two rivals stand opposite each other and feint, lunge, parry and riposte until one scores the required number of hits to win.
Evolved from the ancient form of combat, fencing is one of only four sports that has been featured at every modern Olympic Games. It was the first to include recognised professionals in a medals competition after modern Olympic Games founder Pierre de Coubertin arranged special events for professional fencing "masters" in the original 1896 and 1900 competitions.
The clothing has become so protective, though, that officials modified masks a few years ago to return a "human face" to the event. Fine, but for intense reality, the 1924 team foil competition still wins: After the Olympic Games, an Italian and a Hungarian settled a scoring controversy with a real duel.
OLYMPIC DISCIPLINE Discover this sport through its competition format, equipment, glossary and history. Learn more here:www.olympic.org/uk/sports/programme/disciplines_uk.asp?DiscCode=FE
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Aug 26, 2005 7:56:27 GMT -6
Post by schlager7 on Aug 26, 2005 7:56:27 GMT -6
After nine years of slippery, slinky competition, the Ferret Olympics is being forced to change its name — the U.S. Olympic Committee has threatened to sue. ... The Ferret Olympics didn't attract much attention until the local newspaper reported on it in 2004, Ellis said. Within two weeks of the story, she received phone calls from the BBC in London, "Late Show with David Letterman," "The Ellen Degeneres Show" and, eventually, the U.S. Olympic Committee. Ellis, 44, said she could hardly believe the woman on the phone was serious about the threat of a lawsuit for unauthorized use of a trademark. Some people need to get a life, or at least a sense of humor.
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