I have noticed a lot of people coming into the site searching for “Olympic Medal Design”, and I felt bad because I don’t think they found what they were looking for. Here’s an image from the associated press that describes the Medal Design. It’s interesting to note that the back of each medal is unique [...]
Continue reading about Torino 2006 Winter Olympics Medal Design
Excellent work on the previous two Caption Contests. Let’s see how you do with this image: Be sure to check out the Buy.com deal of the day (linked to on the sidebar) – it’s kind of like Woot, only less trendy. Today they’ve got a 1 gig USB 2.0 flash drive for $30 – if [...]
Continue reading about Olympic Caption Contest #3: More Ice Dancing
This is an actual scene from an actual Olympic Ice Dancer program. This is the second of three Olympic Caption Contests. Get in on the fun now Please keep your captions PG-13 or lower
Continue reading about Olympic Caption Contest: Ice Dancer #2
This is the first of three days of consecutive caption contests. All of these will deal with the Olympic Winter games.
In a society where the line that divides the roles of men from the roles of women is erroding away, perhaps there is nowhere that erosion is happening faster than in the world of Figure Skating. For years, these girly men non-traditional males have endured snickering and sneers for their outlandish outfits and their rather [...]
Continue reading about Gender ambiguity at the Olmpic Winter Games
Biathlon: Coolest Olympic Sport Biathlon, unfortunately, doesn’t sound like it is a cool sport. It doesn’t involve sequen-bedazzled skaters doing triple axles while wearing short skirts like Men’s figure skating does – and it doesn’t involve lazy stoners flipping themselves in crazy ways like Olympic Halfpipe does – but it does have something that no [...]
If you have watched any of the Olympic figure skating, you have probably heard about the new judging system. There are now 12 judges. Of those 12 judges, 9 of the judges are chosen at random by a computer. Of those 9, the highest and lowest scores are removed. The remaining 7 scored go into [...]
Continue reading about The Computer: The phantom judge in figure skating?
We have added the Torino Olympics Medal Count (powered by Yahoo) to the sidebar of RyeBlog. If you don’t want to see the medal count – just don’t expand the menu. (This will allow you to avoid “spoiling it” if you are planning on watching the games and you realize that your favorite country didn’t [...]
Continue reading about Up-to-date Medal Count, right here on RyeBlog
In pair figure skating, Americans Rena Inoue and John Baldwin landed the first Triple Throw-Axel in Olympic competition. In the replay, you can easily see Inoue’s movements – thanks to a new feature of the Torino Olympics. Open space. The general lack of crowds at the pairs figure-skating competition was hard to ignore. Large gaps [...]
Recent Comments