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 »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 »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 »
