Archive for June, 2008

MSNBC’s “Know Your Athletes” on Tim Morehouse

The MSNBC web site has posted video of interviews and Q&A with various Olympic athletes.

Here is one of Tim Morehouse answering some questions.  If you didn’t know, he amps himself up for fencing matches by listenting to the Dixie Chicks and 80s tunes.  (Somehow, I can’t see “Landslide” getting you in the mood to whack Covaliu in the head…)

 

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US Fencing Newsletter – That’s it?

This is mainly going to be a rant, so if you get offended – tough – do something positive and tell me and I’ll post a mea culpa here for you.

I received the USFA newsletter last night (and in our work inbox this morning) and man was I underwhealmed. There are several great items of news to talk about and this email posts two things: The Election and Beijing Olympics.

Both of these are great topics and deserve the attention of the USFA membership. What got me was that I was left unfulfilled and unmotivated by the newsletter. This looks to have been banged out in just a few minutes – certainly less time than I’m taking with this posting today – and it could have been so much better. Continue Reading »

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