Asbury College at the Olympics

Today saw the end of olympic judoka glory. I must say 75 kilogram women bout much slower than do the bouters of the 56 kilogramers. (A bout, I learned, is one match in Judo language). There’s a lot of other language that goes with it but I’ll spare you. It was hard enough just getting […]

Our CBC team has been coming in later the last couple days. Some of the larger team including the AOB camera assistants have been lugging camera cable and jotting notes from 8am till midnight and later. That math works out to be 16+ hours when you count the commute to work. Fortunately, some of the […]

We logged our first games yesterday. The US athletes to watch are definitely Michael Phelps - he stands to win 8 golds while he is here and pocket a million $$$ from Speedo if he can get at least 7. This guy has the wing span of an albatross and he cuts through the water […]

Just in case you weren’t one of the 3 billion or so people worldwide who was watching the show, we rang in the Athens games with a spectacle unmatched. Currently, our Canadian media team is staring down 1:30am, waiting on our ride back to our resident housing. Many of our fellow Athens Olympic Broadcasting (AOB) […]

Hello Greece! This morning we woke and spent our first day getting the lay of the land. We struck out to join the masses riding the bus transit, the metro transit, the rail transit, the taxi transit, and the transitory space between knowing your surroundings and becoming utterly and hopelessly reliant on every map, English […]

My connector flight to Leonardo da Vinci went airborne from Atlanta yesterday. I met a girl from Jerusalem and we talked about Israel for a while, a group of 20 rowdy Texans who were planning to spend time gawking at the Sistine Chapel before they hopped another flight to Atheni land, and two stewardesses, excuse […]