As hundreds of dogs barked and thousands of fans lined up for the ceremonial start of the Iditarod XXXVIII, mushers and their teams of dogs left for an eleven mile run to Anchorage. Seventy one mushers entered the race this year each with twelve to sixteen dogs on their team. The race consists of over [...]
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Iditarod Race Begins
March 7th, 2010 
Tracy Matlack 
Posted in Sports, Tracy Matlack 
Tags: Alaska, Anchorage, Diphtheria, dog sleds, gold mining, gold strike, Iditarod, Last Great Race on Earth, mushers, National Historic Trail, Nome, winter olympics 
2 Comments »London is Home to the 2012 Olympics
March 2nd, 2010 Tracy Matlack The 2010 Olympics were great. I really got involved in sports that I have never watched before such as the Skeleton and Curling. Since I have begun my internet marketing business, I have been blogging like crazy and that has pushed me to research and read about new and exciting things. I never thought I [...]
Posted in Facebook, Marketing, Olympics 2010, Tracy Matlack Tags: 2012 Olympics, applications, athletes, candidate city, crazy pants, Curling, Facebook, Finland, Internet Marketing, Jacques Chirac, journalists, London, norwegian, olympics, Paris, politicians, skeleton, stadiums, tourists 10 Comments »2010 Olympic Skeleton With Funky Helmets
February 26th, 2010 Tracy Matlack What would entice someone to join a sport named the “Skeleton”? The name alone would cause me to re-think any thoughts I might have that entertain lying belly down on a small sled while enduring forces up to 5g’s as I rocket down a frozen track. The Skeleton, how did they come up with that [...]
Posted in Olympics 2010, Sports Tags: 2010 Olympics, Curling, helmet, Labyrinth, luge, olympic sports, skeleton, sled, whistler 1 Comment »Tiger Woods Sincere? Who Cares?
February 22nd, 2010 Tracy Matlack I am sure by now everyone has had a chance to see with their own eyes, or at least hear about Tiger Woods’ news conference last week. The one where he apologized for causing the scandal that has torn his family apart. That should have been good enough. Let’s get on with our lives. You [...]
Posted in Celebrities, Sports, Tracy Matlack Tags: affair, apology, Celebrities, golf, news conference 4 Comments »Norwegians have skill too, not just cool pants
February 20th, 2010 Tracy Matlack In my last post that covered Curling, I admitted that I had never watched the sport before. I had no desire to because it seemed so unexciting. I mean, no one was flying through the air on boards or hurtling full-throttle down an ice tunnel. In Curling, there are just stones and brooms. But now, [...]
2010 Olympics – What is Curling?
February 19th, 2010 Tracy Matlack I have watched many winter Olympics, and I have to admit that I have never watched Curling. I know nothing about it. So, this post is dedicated to those of you, who like me, are behind the Curling times. I will give you a little history, catch you up on the correct terms to use [...]
Posted in Olympics 2010, Sports, Tracy Matlack Tags: 2010 Olympics, Canada, Curling, Curling Club, curling stones, curling terms, Edinburgh, house, ice, International Curling Federation, loafies, Perth, rings, Scotland, sweep, teams, Vancouver, winter games, winter olympics, Women's Curling, World Curling Federation 2 Comments »2010 Olympics China Gets Gold in Figure Skating
February 16th, 2010 Tracy Matlack Out of retirement and into the gold! After eighteen years, the husband and wife duo from China finally realized their Olympic gold dream and won China’s first title in figure skating. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo broke Russia’s 46-year stronghold on the Olympics figure skating pairs event on Monday night with a mesmerizing performance. Their [...]
Posted in Olympics 2010, Tracy Matlack Tags: 2010 Olympics, Canada, Chinese, figure skating, gold medal, ice skating, olympics, Shen Xue, silver medal, Vancouver, Zhao Hongbo 3 Comments »Vancouver 2010 Opening Ceremonies
February 12th, 2010 Tracy Matlack 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 [...]
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 »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 »
