Archery

Popfly Olympics

Got his in my inbox the other day, its called ‘Popfly Olympics’, designed for all the people who weren’t able to compete or attend the Beijing Olympics A range of cool games created using Popfly & Silverlight. Competitions include, torch lighting, soccer, tack & field, archery, long-jump, weightlifting, boxing, gymnastics, diving, synchronised swimming. Try [...]

The Secret Curse of Expert Archers

clipped by: William Hung clipper's remarks: The problem has spawned a cottage industry of coaches, books and specialized accessories that claim to cure target panic. Clip Source: www.nytimes.com Joel Page Clip Source: www.nytimes.com There is an affliction so feared by elite archers that many in the sport refuse to even say its name. Archery coaches who specialize in treating the problem are sworn not to reveal the identities of archers in its grip, even though they estimate that 90 percent of h...

NBC Details Online Olympic Coverage; Combining Mobile, Casual Gaming and Online Video

NBC has announced today their plan for exclusive and extensive online video and mobile coverage for the 2008 Bejing Olympics. Back in November, SAI reported on the total number of hours of online video that NBC would provide, 2,200 live hours and over 3,000 total hours of video. NBC is also partnering with Microsoft on their Silverlight technology and the player that NBC describes should be nothing short of amazing. News will appear on MSN and will combine some of the video footage as well. NBC...

Gizmos to make it up close and personal at Games

As an archery contender at the Summer Olympics lines up a shot, an American TV viewer sits squarely in the bull's-eye. When the arrows fly in Beijing, the view from tiny high-definition cameras is sure to jolt some folks right out of their recliners. In this July 5, 2008 file photo, Michael Phelps swims to victory in the men's 100-meter butterfly final at the US Olympic swimming trials in Omaha, Neb. With the Olympics set to start Aug. 8, NBC is gearing up to provide 3,600 hours of coverage from...

Stunning pictures of Beijing's space age Olympic stadiums

clipped by: suckmyclip clipper's remarks: more from the Daily Fail Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk CHAOYANG PARK BEACH VOLLEYBALL GROUND: The pitch, which will host the beach volleyball competition, consists of 17,000 tons of sand imported from the island of Hainan, south of China. While the site was being built, construction workers came across a dilapidated temple, which, after careful excavation, was found to be ruins from the Ming Dynasty LAOSHAN VELODROME: Occupying an area of almost 33,00...

IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: KHATUNA LORIG - OLYMPIC ARCHER

Khatuna Lorig will represent the US in Women's Archery at the Beijing Olympics. She previously competed for the Former Soviet Union at the 1992 Games (where she earned a bronze medal) and then the Republic of Georgia in 1996 and 2000. She just missed qualifying in 2004. Now she'll compete in her fourth Olympics for her new country. Good luck Khatuna!

The Best of Both Worlds

By Thomas Allen This spring and summer has been very unpredictable! I know thousands of Iowa Sportsmen and women across our great state are feeling the pressure of out of control gas prices and river systems. Many are without homes due to the floods and many are without adequate funds to fully pursue their fishing and other summer time passions thanks to soaring fuel prices. As I sat in my office this month trying to figure out this month’s Iowa Experience, I sincerely struggled at finding a to...

Gray hoping for third time lucky

Australia has won medals in the men's individual archery event at the past two Olympics, Simon Fairweather having struck gold in Sydney while Tim Cuddihy won bronze in Athens in 2004. The hopes of a podium finish in Beijing rest...

Montana town may use archery to control deer

HELENA, Mont. -- Carter County Sheriff Rusty Jardee says mule deer in tiny Ekalaka became a nuisance, munching on vegetable gardens and damaging trees, soon after enforcement of the local leash law.No...

The Lollipop qualification

At Yellow Braces one of the activities was Archery, the Hill End site don't let us Arch (is that the correct term?) on their site so we have to trot over to a farm near by. All well and good but the journey does involve crossing a particularly nasty and fast piece of road and walking a few hundred yards along it. Although we had highly qualified archeryists (not the correct term) we didn't have anyone apart from me who was expedition qualified, this being the appropriate training and experience ...