http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/taxonomy/term/89/0 en http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/blog/davethorvald/olympic-notebook-for-feb-17th-day-seven-heaven <p><strong>Day Seven and I am in Heaven, How about you? </strong><br /> </p> <p>A few quick notes after busy day of attending the <a href="http://www.raincitystudios.com/">RainCity</a> / <a href="http://bryght.com/">Bryght</a>-sponsored <a href="torino/symposium/vancouver">Symposium</a> at <a href="http://www.urbanvancouver.com/">Vancouver</a>'s <a href="http://www.take5cafe.com/index.html">Take 5 coffeeshop</a>. <br /> <br /> The event linked up the Torino street-maniacs <a href="http://www.kriskrug.com">Krug</a>, <a href="http://www.robertscales.org">Scales</a> and (the not sooo maniacal) <a href="http://www.bmannconsulting.com">Bman</a> at the BC lodge in Turin, Italy.&nbsp; Participants on the Western hemisphere included Gold Medalist <a href="http://rossrebagliati.com/bio.htm">Ross Rebagliati</a>, plus photo-machine <a href="http://www.rolandtanglao.com/">Roland Tanglao</a>, boy-wonder <a href="http://www.willpate.org/">Will Pate</a>, very public <a href="http://nowpublic.com/">Michael Tippet</a>, photo queen <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/goddess_spiral/">Spiral Goddess</a>, my buddy <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bcjams/">Bread</a> and many more.<br /> </p> canada cherry Czech daveolson hasek hockey Olympics and Web 2.0 Symposium Ross Rebagliati skeleton snowboard torino Torino 2006 turin Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:15:27 -0800 http://2010.dailyvancouver.com/blog/davethorvald/more-results-from-saturday-and-sunday <p><strong>20Km W's Cross-country Skiiing&nbsp;</strong></p><p>Estonia's Kristina Smigun opened the medal count for the former-Soviet, Baltic countries with a Gold in 15km pursuit Cross-Country (the race in which Canada's Beckie Scott finished 6th).&nbsp; Katerina Neumannova from Czech Republic took Silver finishing about a second behind while Russia's Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova scored the Bronze medal.&nbsp; Beside Beckie's 6th, Canada's Sara Renner of Canmore, AB., finished 16th in a discipline which saw numerous competetitors already suspended for 5 days for high blood hempglobin levels or something.<br /> </p> cross-country skiing downhill skiing luge short track speed skating snowboard Torino 2006 women's hockey Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:42:48 -0800