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Sochi Day 9: Ladies 1500m

Sunday, February 16, 2014 // 1 Comment

Marathon skater Jorrit Bergsma presents a challenge to Sven’s supremacy. Recap Exciting as always, the Olympics continues to throw surprises at us, thick and fast. Olga [more...]

Sochi Day 8: Mens 1500m

Saturday, February 15, 2014 // 0 Comments

Jorien Ter Mors of the Netherlands leads Arianna Fontana of Italy at the European championships for short track. Recap After an uneventful, but controversial day off (which [more...]

Sochi Day 6: Ladies 1000m

Thursday, February 13, 2014 // 0 Comments

Bart Swings, a current world champion in inline skating is looking to add an Olympic medal to his collection. Recap The olympics continues to surprise and in that sense, [more...]

Sochi Day 5: Mens 1000m

Wednesday, February 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Oakley sunglasses – a nutritious diet loved by speed skaters the world over. Recap Could anyone have possibly predicted the result? Well… no. Not at all. The [more...]

Sochi Day 4: Ladies 500m

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 // 2 Comments

Shani Davis from the USA will be going for his third consecutive victory in the 1000m Recap As was expected, a few surprises. Zhang from China posting a fantastic time from [more...]

Sochi Day 3: Mens 500m

Monday, February 10, 2014 // 0 Comments

it has always astounded me just how much hair a person can fit under those hoods… Recap Heartbreaking, agonising, saddening, Daniel Greig caught the tip of his blade in [more...]

Sochi Day 2: Ladies 3000m

Sunday, February 9, 2014 // 0 Comments

Yo, what up? Recap It’s like I always say – anything can happen. The night’s racing delivered an edge-of-your-seat battle right down to the wire, with the [more...]

Sochi Day 1: Mens 5000m

Saturday, February 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

Recap So that went mostly as expected. Sven got pretty much the exact time I said he would by skating pretty much the exact splits that I said he would. I’m pretty sure [more...]

Privet Sochi!

Friday, February 7, 2014 // 0 Comments

With the opening ceremony literally hours away, hopefully I can get this article out before everyone starts watching (and stops reading). Judging from the feedback from the [more...]

It’s all about light

Saturday, December 28, 2013 // 2 Comments

Recently I purchased as a gift one of those mirrorless interchangeable lens cameras (the Fujifilm X-M1 with 27mm lens, if you must know). The receiver of this gift, being [more...]

The Thing You’ve Never Done

Sunday, January 20, 2013 // 1 Comment

Berlin just after the stroke of midnight So it’s taken me nearly two thirds of January to get around to writing this. There is a tradition around this time of year to [more...]

On Ageing

Monday, December 31, 2012 // 0 Comments

Sitting in a hotel room in Berlin on New Year’s eve is as good a time as any is write a long-belated post about growing up, and how it differs to ageing. I recently [more...]

Parting Shots

Saturday, June 23, 2012 // 1 Comment

Not to sound too cliché, but “think of the children!” Yesterday was the final day of negotiations. The text was adopted, but it was very weak. The opportunity to [more...]

Dress to Impress, Live by Example

Friday, June 22, 2012 // 0 Comments

UN summits are funny things. One of the more unusual things I noticed is the way people are dressed. Rio de Janiero at this time of the year is often in the mid-twenties and [more...]

Post Trauma

Thursday, June 21, 2012 // 0 Comments

Worldwatch President Bob Engelman holds up a copy of our latest publication It’s taken a little while to fully decompress, but we seem to have all recovered well from [more...]
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