Tonight, Friday, Feb. 12, with seven years of planning in the rear view mirror, the lights will dim inside Vancouver’s BC Place. Nearly 55,000 people in attendance, and hundreds of millions more watching on televisions around the world, will wait eagerly in anticipation. What can we expect from the first Opening Ceremony to be held [...]
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Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremonies
February 12th, 2010 
Tracy Matlack 
Posted in Olympics 2010, Tracy Matlack 
Tags: 2010 opening ceremonies, athletes, BC Place Stadium, Canada, ceremony, Entertainment, flag bearer, flame, NBC, parade, prime minister, team usa, torch, uniform, Vancouver, winter olympics 
6 Comments »What? No Women In 2010 Olympic Ski Jumping?
February 12th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Lindsey Vonn holds the record — among both men and women — for the longest jump off of Whistler, B.C.’s normal ski jump, built for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. She is the first American woman to win back-to-back overall World Cup championships, doing so in 2008 and 2009. She has also won World Cup discipline [...]
Posted in Olympics 2010, Sports Tags: 2010 Olympics, female ski jumpers, Lindsey Vonn, ski jump, slalom, Sports, super-G, whistler, winter games, winter olympics, women ski jumpers 5 Comments »Give Her Your Heart For Valentine’s
February 10th, 2010 Tracy Matlack In less than four days, Valentine’s Day will be upon us. I have never really been excited about this day of love and romance since high school, that is until now. Valentine’s Day becomes just another day until you have that wonderful someone in your life that turns your world upside down! Who knew at [...]
Posted in Tracy Matlack Tags: diamond ring, gemstone, gift, gold, heart, love, valentine 3 Comments »2010 Olympics Ski Jumping
February 9th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Olaf Rye, a Norwegian lieutenant was the first known ski jumper. According to Wikipedia, he launched himself 9.5 metres in the air in front of an audience of other soldiers in 1809. Ski jumpers began tackling larger jumps in1862, and were traveling longer distances. Norway’s Sorndre Norheim jumped 30 meters over a rock without the [...]
Posted in Olympics 2010, Sports, Tracy Matlack Tags: long jumps, Olaf Rye, Schlierenzauer, ski jumping, winter olympics 9 Comments »Saints to Win Superbowl!!
February 5th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Okay, since we all know that the New Orleans Saints are going to win Superbowl XLIV, I thought it might be fun for us Saints fans to learn a little bit of trivia about our beloved team. You die-hard Saints fans might find some of the questions tough and quite interesting. Keep reading, you might [...]
Posted in Sports, Tracy Matlack Tags: football, New Orlean Saints, Saints, superbowl, superbowl picks No Comments »It’s Soccer Season
February 2nd, 2010 Tracy Matlack My daughter Haley is a sophomore in high school this year and has decided to play a sport for the first time. Her sport of choice is soccer. She signed up to play through our recreation department and found out in no time that she loved it. It came naturally to her and she has [...]
