Olympic Blog Listings

[curlykarot]

Thread for Olympic Blog Listings. Its so helpful to have them all in one place. Please list those you know of!

EVENTING:
Becky Holder - www.holdereventteam.com
Max Corcoran for OCT - http://special.equisearch.com/blog/maxcorcoran/
Greg Tryon for Team Tryon - http://teamtryon.blogspot.com/
Phillip Dutton - http://phillipdutton.com/cms/

CANADIAN
Kerri McGregor. She’s the Assistant Team Manager to Mike Gallagher for the entire Canadian contingent http://kerrimcgregor.wordpress.com/

GENERAL
Brian O’Connor is the announcer of the equestrian events - http://special.equisearch.com/blog/brianoconnor/

SHOW JUMPING
Beezie Madden - http://teamusa.usatoday.com/bmadden/

DRESSAGE
Debbie McDonald- http://special.equisearch.com/blog/debbiemcdonald/[/FONT]"]

[Moderator_1]

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That’s right, Beth and Molly will be reporting with stories, photos, a virtual course walk of the cross-country course and blogs each day from Hong Kong, from the moment the eventers start dressage on Aug. 9 until the individual show jumping medals are awarded on Aug. 21. They’ll bring you the stories behind the results and up-to-the-moment news of all the action.

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[Chief2]

Thank you to CoTH and all of the sponsors!

[CookiePony]

COTH has blogs for Eventing

[War_Admiral]

Here are some more blogs I found this evening:

USEF:
Brian Soseby’s blog: http://www.usef.org/TeamUSA/Blog1.aspx
Joanie Morris’ blog (nothing there yet!): http://www.usef.org/TeamUSA/Blog2.aspx

GBR:

Mary King (eventing), Tim Stockdale (showjumping), and Jane Gregory (dressage) all blog here for Horse and Hound.

And Team GBR Equestrian leader Will Connell provides interesting behind-the-scenes stuff here on the Team GBR website.

[Peggy]

Canada - Mike Gallagher’s daily blog

[War_Admiral]

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Canada - Mike Gallagher’s daily blog[/QUOTE]

Interesting remark from him about the IOC “getting tough on daily journals/blogs”… Wonder what’s up with that…

[Romany]

Blog censorship

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Interesting remark from him about the IOC “getting tough on daily journals/blogs”… Wonder what’s up with that… [/QUOTE]

Kerri McGregor ( http://kerrimcgregor.wordpress.com/ ) is saying much the same thing…I’d got the impression that it was the Chinese instigating the censorship…I think I also heard mention of it in the news; that many Olympic bloggers are getting PO’d with the censorship, so the Chinese (IOC?) are relaxing the rules slightly.

[War_Admiral]

Well, doesn’t THAT just blow.

Kerri McGregor’s blog is awesome though, great pics!!! :yes:

[canyonoak]

The IOC is not worried so much WHAT people write/blog as WHEN they make it public.

Same as it was since Sydney Olympics.

Lots of media have paid LOTS of money to cover the events, and IOC is trying to keep to a minimum the number of private persons with computer/blackberry/iPhone who let (cough cough) their friends know the scores and so on BEFORE the paying media personnel.

ALl that has really changed since Sydney is the incredible amount of techno-gadgets we all have with which to communicate.

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WHAT people write/can’t write…that is the province more of the BOCOG and their buddies in Hong Kong.

[canyonoak]

www.horsehero.com

also has lots of interesting Olympic coverage-- videos, interviews, etc etc.

[lep]

Gina Miles’ blog

http://www.mileseventing.com/GinasJournalOlympics!/FLASH%20FILES/index.html

[Regal_Grace]

British Rider - Sharon Hunt’s Olympic Diary

http://www.sharonhunteventing.com/diary.htm

[Painted_Wings]

Well, I’m just a spectator

I leave Thursday morning. I decided to start my own blog. You know, from a SMURFS point of view. I’ll try to post every day, we’ll see how it goes, there are some long days scheduled.

Blog post link:
http://www.chronicleofmyhorse.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1971868%3ABlogPost%3A93304&xgs=1

[I_m_EBO]

I’m not even a spectator, but I’m so appreciative of COTH for making this available to us.

I’m getting excited! And I haven’t been in the least.

Good for the Chinese regarding the stabling and the care they’ve set up for the equestrian teams.

[TuxWink]

I’m in Hong Kong…

and also have a blog! I will be attending the eventing competitions, but I am a total outsider…don’t expect me to know the horses’ barn names, or who the grooms are, etc.

So far it is more of a personal photo gallery / anecdotal look at things, but I will try to update with competition observations as well:

http://amyswantonmills.blogspot.com/

[Regal_Grace]

The Horse.com Blog - Jennifer Bryant

http://cs.thehorse.com/blogs/equestrian-olympics/

[linquest]

[QUOTE=TuxWink;3421426]
and also have a blog! I will be attending the eventing competitions, but I am a total outsider…don’t expect me to know the horses’ barn names, or who the grooms are, etc.

So far it is more of a personal photo gallery / anecdotal look at things, but I will try to update with competition observations as well:

http://amyswantonmills.blogspot.com/[/QUOTE]

Cool! Now I am craving some peking duck and dim sum. I thought your comment about the dim sum was hilarious. Keep in mind that LA does have the best dim sum in North America because of all the HK immigrants there, so that’s prolly why it’s so similar there :lol:

Man, I so wish I was there!

[Regal_Grace]

Becky finally posted an update in her Blog

http://www.holdereventteam.com/news.php

and pictures too : )

[Regal_Grace]

Equisearch - Fran Jurga’s Hong Kong Blog

http://special.equisearch.com/blog/worldrides/