Posts Tagged ‘Olympics’
Friday, February 12th, 2010
The Winter Olympics are going to get going tomorrow after tonight’s ceremony, but San Francisco doesn’t have an NBC affiliate so there you go. (I think the closest city of license for NBC is Fun Jose or Fresno or someplace Down South.) Here’s the rule – if you can’t see Mount San Bruno from your residence, chances are your rabbit ears won’t either.
All right then, you can always keep up at nbcolympics.com, and at the same time get your fill of ads for WalMart and the 2010 Census.
Or, alternatively, you can check out the less spammy website of the United State Olympic Committee complete with all the Web 2.0 connections you kids crave.
Your choice.
via Robert Sanzalone
Tags: 2010, antenna, canada, digital, KNTV, mount, mountain, nbc, Olympics, san bruno, San Francisco, san jose, TV, Vancouver, whistler, winter
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Friday, March 27th, 2009
Well that’s the news of the day – in light of the fiasco that was the 2008 Olympic International Torch Relay, the International Olympic Committee has just announced that there aint going to any more of those anytime soon. So, it’s going to be host-country relays only. Per the New York Times:
“The I.O.C. hopes to avoid the ugly scenes that erupted in San Francisco, Paris and London last year.”
O.K. then. Here’s how the torch relay on the Streets of San Francisco looked last year, when official torch bearer Andrew Michael, seen seated in a wheelchair below, managed to get some attention by displaying a Tibetan flag:
But, OMG, he signed a contract saying he wouldn’t express hisself like that. OMG, HE SIGNED A CONTRACT with Coca Cola or somebody and then when against it. Can you imagine? If only the Sacred Flame Protection Squad had been at full force that day, they could have pushed over his wheelchair, or given him a beatdown, or manhandled him the way they did with fellow torchbearer Majora Carter…
Anyway, there’s your Chinese Olympic Legacy.
Tags: 2008, Andrew Michael, bearer, beijing, China, chinese, Comité International Olympique, committee, international, Majora Carter, Olympic, Olympics, protests, relay, San Francisco, SFPD, sport, Tibet, Torch, torchbearer, van ness, wall street journal, wsj
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Of course last year’s Olympic protests around the Chinese Consulate at 1450 Laguna near Geary really livlied up the Western Addition / Japantown area in 2008. Let’s review and then see what’s coming up for 2009.
Did this really happen last year? Yes it did. It’s U.C. Davis grad / protest artist Nyendak Wangden hanging off the side of the gosh darn building. It’s supposed to look like she was hung by the neck, but she was safe under the robes in her climbing harness. Safe until somebody on the roof hacked at the red rope causing her to fall. Ouch. Click to expand:
Source unknown This could be a one-of-a-kind photo
How long a fall to the balcony would you say that was? 15 feet or so? Note the absence of the flagpoles in this later photo – those poles got nubbed shortly after the rope cutting incident.
The mise-en-scene from before the rope thang. (NB: The next time you illegally suspend yourself from a building to make a political point, do it above a balcony – it can be a long way to sidewalk otherwise:
But that was then, this is now. More recently, “serial package thrower” Aaron Bassler made the news by throwing items containing wacky stuff (something to do with the “Martian military”) over the fence of the consulate. These objects were treated as bombs by the SFPD. Thusly:
That crime wave is over. What’s coming up in 2009? Well, stuff to do with Tibet – read on after the jump.
And of course, the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square is coming up on June 4, 2009 as well. Just saying.
Concertina wire up on the roof and a decrease in flagpoles are two of the more obvious changes the past year. A recent photo:
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Tags: 2008, 2009, Add new tag, beijing, california, China, chinese, consulate, cut, free, Kendra Zanotto, Nyendak Wangden, Olympics, protest, rope, San Francisco, Square, team, Tiananmen, Tibet
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
Are you ready for this? It’s the “AVP Crocs Tour San Francisco presented by Fuze Beverage, Part of the AVP Crocs Cup Shootout presented by Bud Light“!
Per the AVP, Piers 30 and 32 “will be rocking” Friday Through Sunday, courtesy to the sponsorship of those Crocs shoes. Check out this earth-toned pair recently abandoned in Golden Gate Park during Power to the Peaceful 2008. Click for the full horror:
Anywho, check the schedule and then get your tickets.
Of course they hit you with a $23.50 ”order processing fee” for a pair of three-session Front Row Courtside tickets, but you’re rich because you live in San Francisco. Right?
C’mon you richers, you want to see Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor, Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser, fresh from winning gold at the Genocide Olympics in Beijing, China, don’t you? Watching this is probably much better than playing Hooverball with a medicine ball in the park.
Schedule:
Friday, September 12th: SESSION 1 10:30 AM – 8:30 PM (12 total matches on 2 courts)
Saturday, September 13th: SESSION 2 8:30 AM – 8:30 PM (12 total matches on 2 courts)
Sunday, September 14th: SESSION 3 11:15 AM – 5:00 PM (4 total matches on center court: men’s and women’s finals)
Will this sport’s “Perv Factor” (its popularity due to the competitor’s sex appeal) fill the stands in San Francisco? Only Time Will Tell.
See you there!
Tags: 2008, 30-32 piers, appeal, association of volleyball professionals, avp, beach, beijing, crocs, gold, Kerri Walsh, Misty May-Treanor, Olympics, perv factor, Phil Dalhausser, pier 32, pier30, San Francisco, sex, shoes, Todd Rogers, tour, volleyball
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
This was the scene yesterday in the Western Addition, where hundreds of protesters blocked traffic in front of the Chinese Consulate. Drivers on the Geary Expressway, already wary of dangerous all-electric supercars, should experience a similar gauntlet today.
And then the action heads over to the East Bay.
This was yesterday’s schedule from Team Tibet SF:
In San Francisco
11:30-12:00 PRESS CONFERENCE
12:00-1:30 Peace Rally, Concert at Union Square
March to City hall
2:00-2:30 Rally at City Hall
March to Chinese Consulate
3:30-4:30 Protest at Chinese Consulate
4:30-5:15 Walk back to Union Sqaure
5:15-7:00pm Break. Food and Beverages provided by SF TEAM TIBET
7:00-9:00pm Candle Light Vigil w/ Cultural Show at Union Square
Here is today’s
August 24
12:00-3:00pm Protest at the Chinese Consulate
Evening event at Finnish Brotherhood Church in Berkeley on University Ave and cross
street at Chestnut Ave.
Program: 6:00-10:00pm Dinner, Annual Report, Film, Short Presentation
Tags: 2008, Add new tag, beijing, Berkeley, brotherhood, China, chinese, church, City Hall, civic center, consulate, finish, finnish, march, Olympics, protest, San Francisco, SF, SFPD, team, Tibet
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
As promised, the Beijing Olympics has cheerleaders, and plenty. But sadly, the expected “sunshine boys” are nowhere to be seen, per the Huffington Post’s Ph.D on the scene:
What is interesting is that in last year’s test events, there were boy cheerleaders who were called yangguang nanhai (sunshine boys). They were received well by the audiences. This year, for whatever reason, only girl cheerleaders will be there.
HuffPo’s Dr. Hongmei Li has all the deets here. However, Tanya Enberg is not onboard this train:
What is unnecessary and rather bizarre is that women’s volleyball has scantily dressed female cheerleaders excitedly hopping about and wiggling…
Unnecessary? Bizarre? As always, you make the call. Click to expand:
They wouldn’t leave poor Kobe alone:
Kobe Bryant was there Monday morning. Famous as an NBA star and infamous as a womanizer, Bryant was pursued by a flock of barefoot, bikini-wearing, off-duty cheerleaders as he left the stadium.
Is this some kind of hoedown on the basketball court?
Via the awesome photostream of kk+
Extended coverage, after the jump
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Tags: basketball, beach, beijing, cheer, cheerleaders, China, Hongmei Li, kobe bryant, leaders, Olympics, volleyball
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