Tamsin and Kirsty McGarry
Trawling through the internet today I came across the following official video by RTE. It’s an interview with two of Irelands Olympians Tamsin & Kirsty McGarry when they were featured on Bulletin TV last year. The pair from Dalkey, Co Dublin have represented Ireland at the Olympics. Tamsin was the first first Irish woman competitor [...]
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its regional members created a really wonderful website, called “Vancouver Live”. The website, www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics is the first website of it’s kind that has the blessing of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It ran for the first time in the summer Olympics, in 2008 in Beijing and has been continued [...]
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Those guys at google have come up with some great applications for the Olympics, and the one that has everyone talking about is the addition of StreetView for many of the slopes in Whistler, Canada. They have equipped a skidoo with their google street view mapping equipment and have taken to the slopes. For the [...]
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The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver have finally started. Yesterday there was speed skating (short & long track), ladies freestyle skiing (moguls) and Mens Luge, Womens Ice Hockey, Ski Jumping and the biathlon. But sadly none of the Irish athletes were in these events. The Olympic Council of Ireland [www.olympicsport.ie] has kindly published a schedule [...]
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