Wednesday the 10th was my first proper work day - myself and my colleagues: Mildred (from Phillipines-Acer employee and Angela-Volunteer from Winnipeg) were stationed at the Alpine media center - see left. Not too busy first thing in the morning, but press are still arriving. And forgetting their logins. And not applying microsoft patches so when the first connect to the network "I have no internet" because the god of MS is applying patches automatically and hogging all their RAM and/or CPU. Also figuring out the actual tech. process by which the press functions in real life, as opposed to the intellectual method of reading all the manuals ("this is everything you need to know"). So! Met some lovely Austrians who complemented my German, some Italians who were so well prepared: I suspected they were not Italian at all. All the VANOC staff are extreeeemly hyper to make the press happy - it is our raison dete for being there!
Ran up to the finish area as much as possible, and got to see skiiers finishing their training runs!!!!!! Amazing!!! I missed Bode Millers run, but I'm really not sure what their spandex looks like, so I may have seen him after all. My new profile picture was taken by none other than the head of Medical for the U.S. Team! Quincy-don't laugh- let me know the team is all healthy and ready! Fog came in at about noon, so there was a "Start Stop" which means not all the skiiers got their run, which sucks. Hopefully they'll get it this morning, because they have to change the runs for the next event training runs.
After th
e Start Stop, we all were completely amazed when a wild Lynx jumped the left (looking up the mountain) fence, shallowly crossed the finish line, then jumped over the right fence and back into the woods! My camera is not good enought to zoom on him properly, but I tooks shots of him via the big screen. Lots of "crossing the finish line" jokes!
e Start Stop, we all were completely amazed when a wild Lynx jumped the left (looking up the mountain) fence, shallowly crossed the finish line, then jumped over the right fence and back into the woods! My camera is not good enought to zoom on him properly, but I tooks shots of him via the big screen. Lots of "crossing the finish line" jokes! Click the link to the slide show for all the pics for the day! http://cid-1d830ff0d49b62ab.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Olympics%20Day%204
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