Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Amazing People: Grandmas and Grandpas Olympic Games


Ruth Frith shows that age is no barrier when it comes to sport. At the age of 100, the shot putter prepares for her latest throw at the World Masters Games.


Canada’s Olga Kotelko is a bit younger – she’s only 90 years old and has reportedly claimed at least 15 world records in the run-up to the Games.





Harbhajan Singh Aulakh, Indian-born but representing Australia where he now lives, competes in the 75-79 age group steeple-chase.




At 79, Norm Perry was the oldest participant in the baseball.

Australian Ralph Howard, 91, was the oldest rower there and he won gold. The Games attracted 28,292 competititors from 95 countries ranging in age from 24 to 101.


Earl Fee of Canada (center) leads his 80-84 age group in the 100-meter sprint on the track.


More than 28,000 athletes took part in the Sydney competition. They included a bearded man called O Santa Claus. He ran in the 100-meter sprint in the 80-84 age group.


Jack Mathieson, aged 91, poses after swimming in the 800-metre freestyle.
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Interesting & Useful Links - World Cup 2010 South Africa


FIFA's official World Cup site - [Link]


World cup 2010 South Africa Guidance – [Link]

Useful service offering of rent of cellular moving bodies to be used in South Africa - [Link]

Matches in the week ahead, useful for those pre-World Cup friendlies - [Link]

Pretty cool quality for world cup 2010 South Africa Calendar - [Link]

ESPN’s World Cup 2010 TV Schedule - [Link]

World Cup in Excel 2010 in Excel - [Link]

A handy pdf match schedule from FIFA - [Link]

World Cup 2010 South Africa Wallpapers - [Link]


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