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Hey! Check on Your Sports Fans Friends! We are NOT OK!
Small caveat before we begin... Yes, of course, the world is undergoing a crisis due to the restrictions put in place as a result of the COVID-19 epidemic. So, no, in the grand scheme of things, not being able to watch any sports really isn't that big of a deal.
By Matty Willz6 years ago in Unbalanced
I miss sports
“I miss (insert favorite sport).” This sentence has never, in our lifetime, been so frequently uttered. A passion that filled so many, has been taken away. Not just the roaring stadiums of March Madness and opening day, but an afternoon of watching your son play little league; or a pickup basketball game between friends.
By Lukas Moore6 years ago in Unbalanced
1964 Olympics
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, is a multi-sport winter event held from January 29th to February 9th, 1964 in Innsbruck, Austria. The Games featured 1091 athletes from 36 countries and carried the Olympic Torch to Joseph Rieder, a former alpine skier who had competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics. The Games were affected during training by the deaths of Australian alpine skier Ross Milne and British lugeracer Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski, and three years afterwards by the deaths of the entire U.S. hockey team and family members. Just Innsbruck applied for an invitation against Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and Lahti, Finland to host the 1964 Winter Olympics. This is the same tally of votes this took place on May 26, 1959, at the 55th IOC Session in Munich, West Germany: the games were opened by a concert conducted by the Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm's baton. The first concert included 7th Symphony by Beethoven, and 40th Symphony by Mozart. Historically the warm Innsbruck had been influenced by a lack of snow. The Austrian army removed 20,000 ice cubes from the top of a mountain and sent them to tracks of bobsleigh and luge. They provided the alpine ski courses with 40,000 cubic metres of snow too. The Soldiers rushed down the slopes by hand and foot. All the women's speed skating events are headed by Lidia Skoblikova. Italian bobsleigh pilot Eugenio Monti has enriched himself by helping Britain's Tony Nash and Robin Dixon win the gold medals and sending them a cracked axle bolt to repair it. The Italians took bronze, but Monti was first elected recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin sportsmanship award. Austrian Egon Zimmermann took the gold medal in the alpine downhill skiing championship for men. Knut Johannesen from Norway hit fastest time at the Olympics in the men's 5,000 m speed skating event. Klavdiya Boyarskikh of the U.S.S.R. won three gold medals in cross-country skiing, and Finnish Eero Mäntyranta won two on the men's side and received the nickname "Mr. Seefeld" after his success in the position. The French sisters Christine and Marielle Goitschel finished first and second in slalom and giant slalom in alpine skiing, respectively. Ski jumping took on a second event, and the Olympic debut in the luge competition. The Games have been previously noteworthy as East and West Germany formed a combined squad the last time. The Closing Ceremonies first took place in a venue other than the opening ceremonies. In Innsbruck 36 Rivals had been allocated to play. China, Mongolia and North Korea took part in the Winter Games for the very first time. Players from West Germany and East Germany played together as the United Team from 1956 to 1964.Australian alpine skier Ross Milne and British luge slider KazimierzKay-Skrzypeski died while practising and exercising just before the Olympics. The planning commission previously said Ross fell into a tree during a hearing. The IOC also said inexperience may have been a factor in Ross's death. Boss John Wagner suggested that overcrowding played a role in beating a multitude of competitors, saying that Milne had been attempting to slow down "on a position you couldn't jump or run" His uncle Malcolm Milne competed at the 1968 and 1972 Winter Olympics. On the road to the Prague World Championships on 15 February 1961, when Sabena Flight 548 crashed in Brussels, Belgium, the entire United States Figure Skating team and other club members, coaches, and officials were killed. The event prompted the cancellation of the World Championships of1961 which demanded the creation of a new American skating programme. Gold won on 34 athletic competitions in six different disciplines.
By MB6 years ago in Unbalanced
1968 Olympics
The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games, was a multi-sport winter festival that was held in Grenoble, France in 1968 and opened on February 6. Thirty-countries attended. In all the alpine skiing events the Frenchman Jean-Claude Killy has won three gold medals. Peggy Fleming won the United States 'first female figure skating gold medal. The games are allocated for making U.S. More famous Winter Olympics, not least due to ABC's intensive coverage of Fleming and Killy, who were instantly celebrity youngsters. The year 1968 marked the first time that the IOC had allowed East and West Germany to compete independently and the IOC for the first time required mandatory alcohol and gender testing. François Raoul, Prefect of the Isère Département, and Raoul Arduin, Chairman of the Dauphiné Ski Federation, publicly proposed the possibility of staging the 1968 Olympic Winter Games in Grenoble on 24 November 1960 for the first time. After the city council decided in principle, numerous government departments offered their assistance and the villagers around Grenoble reacted favourably, Albert Michallon, the former mayor of Grenoble, formed and chaired a plan committee on 30 December 1960. The recommendation was formally made to the IOC at a conference held in Lausanne in February 1963 involving IOC executives and members of international sporting organisations. In this case, the decision was not focused purely on sport as there were only two relevant sporting competitions in the Isère Department, the 1951 Bobsleigh World Championships in L'Alpe d'Huez and the 1959 Luge World Championships in Villard-de-Lans. Grenoble's population rose from 102,000 to 159,000 during 1946 and 1962, and the total population in Isère's department dropped from 139,000 to 250,000. Technology advancement was unable to keep pace with this exponential growth, and was essentially trapped at the same stage as before World War II. Many responsible have never kept it a secret that it is only for them to use the Olympic Games to get bigger funds to quickly improve outdated infrastructure to boost local economies. After Grenoble was chosen as the host city, the organising committee was determined by the French National Olympic Sports Committee. The game was first arranged by the Comité d'Organisation des dixièmes Jeux Olympiques, the body to coordinate the 10th Olympic Games, on 1 August 1964. Albert Michallon was the president of COJO, and was the former mayor of Grenoble. The upper panel consisted of the general assembly and its 340 members, and the advisory board was in charge of doing business and 39 members, 19 of whom were named and the other 20 elected. The Secretary General is comprised of five primary offices and 17 regional departments. In February 1968, the number of workers rose to 1920. They carried out "World Sports Weeks" to test the new sporting facility and develop the operational processes. Speed skating contests and ski races were held from 20 January to 19 February 1967, an ice hockey demonstration from 12 to 15 October 1967 and a figure-skiing contest from 23 to 25 November. On 16 December 1967 in ancient Greece the Olympic torch was illuminated at Olympia. The ceremony was initially expected to take place on 13 December but had to be delayed due to King Constantine II's coup d'état, which had been pushed out of his seat eight months ago, against Georgios Papadopoulos 'dictatorial military rule. Originally the torch relay path led from Mount Olympus to Athens. From there the torch was transported by an Air France Boeing 707 to Paris-Orly airport. The 1960 Downhill Olympic gold medalist Jean Vuarnet, who turned it over to the first torchbearer Alain Mimoun, the 1956 marathon Olympic gold medalist, got the torch there on 19 December. The emblem shows a spinning snow diamond flanked by three stylised roses and on top of the Olympic Rings in one hue. The roses are contained in the same style as the Symbol of Grenoble. The emblem covers the 1968 Grenoble "Xes Jeux Olympiques d'Hiver"
By MB6 years ago in Unbalanced
1984 Olympics
The 1984 Winter Olympics, formally known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games, was a multi-sport winter festival held in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 8–19 February 1984. Sapporo, Japan; and the Gothenburg member cities, including Sweden. It was the first Winter Olympic Games held in a democratic state and in a Slavic-speaking area. Following the Moscow, Soviet Union, 1980 Summer Olympics, it was also the second overall Olympics to be held in a Socialist and Slavic-speaking region, as well as the second consecutive Olympics. At the moment, Sarajevo, present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina capital, was part of the unified Yugoslavia. The torch relay started at the Winter Olympics in Olympia in 1984, and then travelled to Dubrovnik by aeroplane. Yugoslavia had a minimum span of 5,289 kilometres for torch relay. Two main highways — one in the west and one in the east. The final torchbearer was figure skater Sanda Dubravčić who won the torch from skier athlete Ivo Čarman from a total of 1600. One of the first two torches still resides in a private collection in Žalec, Slovenia, Slovenia. Additionally, after the first early games in Athens, it was the first Games played on the Balkans. The Sarajevo games have also been the only Olympics witnessed so far by a competitor of the Non-Aligned Movement. On 18 May 1978 at an 80th session of the International Olympic Committee in Athens, Greece, the host city for the XIV Winter Olympics was announced. Sarajevo had been picked by a three-way margin over Sapporo, Japan. Gothenburg became Sweden's first city to drop an Olympic Winter Olympic bid while other Swedish cities like Falun and Östersund would subsequently withdraw their successive bids for Montreal, Albertville, Lillehammer, Nagano and Salt Lake. In Greece there are also 20 more torches borne by individual competitors who were torchbearers from Ancient Olympia to the local military airport, and from Athens Domestic Airport to Panathinaikon Stadium where the Olympic Torch was handed over to the Sarajevo Olympic Games Committee. At the opening ceremonies the Olympic flag was hoisted upside down by accident. Juan Antonio Samaranch presided over First Match. Women's Nordic Skiing featured in the 20 kilometre event. Skier Jure Franko has won the first Olympic Winter medal for Yugoslavia; a silver in the giant slalom. For independent women Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen has won all three cross-country events. Gaétan Boucher and Karin Enke won two gold medals apiece in speed skating while East German women won all but three of the event's 12 medals. Austria, which has traditionally been a strong winter sports national, just earned a bronze medal. Biathletes Eirik Kvalfoss and Peter Angerer have won a perfect medal collection. The twin brothers Phil and Steve Mahre finished first and second respectively in slalom. Torvill and the Dean of Great Britain have won perfect ratings around the board for artistic performance in the ice dancing festival's free dance category, an accomplishment that has never been replicated before. The gold medals for figure skating were divided between four nations: while the Great Britain ice dancing contest was won by Torvill and Dean, the Soviet Union's Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev won the pair skating title, the men's Scott Hamilton won gold for the United States and Katarina Witt captured the first of two straight gold medals for East Germany in the women's single title. For the first season adaptive skiing became a spotlight event. Bill Johnson has been the first American to win a downhill race in Olympic history. Senegal's Lamine Guèye becomes the first Black African skier to participate at Winter Olympics. In the figure skating centre, the closing ceremonies took place indoor. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver marks the first time the Winter Games closing ceremony marks held indoors. For the 1984 Winter Olympics, Yugoslav newspaper readers were asked to select the mascot from a six preference set. Vučko, the tiny wolf created by Slovenian artist and illustrator Jože Trobec, was the winner. A chipmunk, a fox, a mountain goat, a porcupine and a rabbit were among the other contestants. The Vučko is a longstanding symbol of Sarajevo.
By MB6 years ago in Unbalanced
