By David DeGuzman: Local Sports Anchor, Global Sports Follower.
The cauldron is out in Sochi Olympic Park. This time for good. The Paralympics have just ended, thus closing the book on the journey that was Sochi 2014. It started seven years ago. Fourth of July, 2007. I remember watching the decision to award Sochi these games on a laptop from a living room in …
One aspect of attending an Olympic Games is being immersed in the culture of the host city and the host country. Unfortunately, that's the one thing lacking from #Sochi2014. The Games themselves didn't event take place in Sochi. The mountain venues took place in Krasnaya Polyana, approximately 40 minutes away from the Coastal Cluster and …
In a matter of hours from the time this post is published, the United States and Russia will once again take the ice, this time for Paralympic Gold. The host nation will try and do what her Olympic counterpart could not, win gold and beat the Americans. Which brings me back to four weeks ago …
In my last post, I talked about the Athletes' Village. Now I'm going to tell you about two athletes I had the pleasure of meeting in the village. You probably won't know these individuals. They didn't win any medals at Sochi 2014. But they each have interesting stories that deserve to be filed under the …
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The Olympics are really about the athletes and celebrating the achievements they've made after four years of hard work. The majority of the competitors go home without a medal. Instead, organizers make sure they come away from the Games with the experience of a lifetime. That experience starts when they arrive at the Athletes' Village. …
Continue reading "Sochi 2014 Look-Back: It takes a Village…an Athlete’s Village"
Each day during the Sochi Paralympics, I'll share some of my favorite memories from my Olympic experience that I had while working for NBC as a Production Associate. Sochi 2014 was heavily promoted by its organizing committee as the "most compact Olympics ever". If there was anything that can be labeled as successful from these …
Each day during the Sochi Paralympics, I'll look back at some of my favorite moments from my Olympic experience working for NBC as a Production Associate. Biathlon is one of those Winter Olympic sports that intrigued me ever since the first time I saw it on television during the Salt Lake City Games in 2002. …
Each day during the Sochi Paralympics, I take a look back at my favorite moments from my Olympic experience working with NBC as a production associate for the Mountain SportsDesk. What made this Olympic experience better than what I had in London was my access to the venues. During the London games as a logger, …
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Each day during the Sochi Paralympics, I'll look back at a favorite memory from my Olympic experience in Russia. If you looked back at either the Opening or Closing Ceremony of the Sochi Olympics (or Paralympics for that matter), one of the more notable outfits from the event were those colorful jackets from Team Germany. …
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The Paralympics have begun in Sochi, reigniting the cauldron in the park as the city begins its encore performance as host. It's been almost two weeks since I came back from Russia and now that I've recovered from jet lag and had some time to reflect, I wanted to share and remember the trip. So …
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