Team GB’s Tom Daley says he’s ‘over the moon’ to have won a bronze medal in the 10m platform dive on Saturday. The 18-year-old poster boy of the 2012 Games became the first Briton to win a medal in the discipline since 1960 and lost out on a gold only in the final round to the American David Boudia
Late night trains. This is what they should look like now instead of the crazy photos I’ve seen online . ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s a shame that the Olympics were postponed, but I think it was inevitable at this point. The quicker we all take this seriously the quicker we can get back to everyday life. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #sheisnotlost#doyoutravel#lovetotravel#travelbug#roamtheplanet#travelholic#womenwhotravel#exploretokyo #traveltokyo#AsianWanderlust#SugoiiJapan #Japon#covid19#quarantine#olympics#tokyo2020#voyage#visittokyo#discoverunder5k (at Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama) https://www.instagram.com/p/B-I7W4gHNII/?igshid=1uji1jm3seer7
songs used for ice dance programmes (including compulsory dances, original dances, short dances, free dances, exhibition performances, group dances, SOI, etc.) by tessa virtue and scott moir. if i’ve missed any, just @ me and let me know. for tracks not on spotify, i subbed in the closest version available.
let it take you on a journey from mahler to usher…
(after i made my other playlist for them, i realised i also wanted to cry about every moment they’ve ever danced together so this inevitably followed.)
Continuing to play catch-up on the Tadashi Shoji extravaganza, here are two more real world sightings of dresses from the dreamy Spring 2018 Ready to Wear collection:
So proud of team GB what Am I going to do with no more Olympics to watch….go sleep decent hours is certainly one thing #goteamgb #rio2016 #latenights #olympics #uplifting
Reiter grew up in Linden Hills and first fell in love with skating as a seven-year-old on a homemade ice rink in his backyard. As a teenager, Reiter took lessons locally at the Minneapolis Arena and studied with leading skaters at the Skating Club of New York. When he finished second at the U.S. National Championships in 1936, he secured a spot for the 1936 Olympics in Germany.
Under the looming specter of Nazism, Reiter and the rest of the Olympic team travelled to Bavaria to compete. The armband that Reiter wore in competition, as well as his Olympic identification card, passport, daily competition schedules, and souvenirs from his time in Garmich-Partenkirchen are included in the archival collection. Neither Reiter nor Robin Lee left Germany with an Olympic medal. Lee finished 12th and Reiter came in 13th.
After the Olympics, Reiter continued to skate. He won two more silver medals at the U.S. National Championships in 1937 and 1938. Rather than continue to train for the 1940 Olympics, Reiter became a professional skater in 1939. Together with other famous skaters of the era, he was a featured performer at a recurring ice show at New York’s St. Regis Hotel. Reiter made a good decision, it turns out, since the 1940 and 1944 Olympics were both cancelled due to World War II.
Reiter served in the U.S. Army during the war and returned home to Minneapolis after its end. With his wife, Helen, Reiter raised two sons. He was an active member of the Minnetonka and Calhoun Yacht Clubs, and he continued to figure skate into his 80s. Erle Reiter died December 3, 2008, and is buried in Lakewood Cemetery.
Being a double-amputee hasn’t held Jessica Long back. This splashy athlete’s swimming skills have propelled her to over 20 Paralympic gold medals since her debut in 2004 (plus just a little ol’ thing called the ESPY). This freestyling Push Girl has made waves both in and out of the Paralympic sports world, and for that, we take our (swimming) caps off to her.
Tell your friend she’s got a little J
essica Long in her. Reblog now to give her a little push.
The final Sloth of the Olympic Sloths Series! (At least for now…) I had a heckuva time deciding what sport to go for here - I knew it had to be a winter olympic sport, but I’d already done all the ones with unique costumes/uniforms. I was left with Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton, Speed Skating, and the Various Skiings (Alpine, Slalom, Cross Country and Jump). Most of those all wear variations on the same outfit - Skintight lycra - and most of them also have a head- and face-obscuring helmet and visor/goggles.
I sketched and sketched and sketched and could never quite get the iconic poses for most of them down. Ski Jump was one of the first I tried and rejected. I narrowed it down to Alpine Skiing, Crosscountry Skiing and Speed Skating. I asked around and showed some folks the sketches. Crosscountry skiing was in the lead, until my sister went “what about ski jump?” So, to humour her, I gave Ski Jump another go.
I should honestly know by now that my sister is always right.
Allow me a moment to be immensely proud of that freakin’ football. I have never drawn a football better, and I suspect I never shall again. Bask in the glory.
Meanwhile, if there’s a football team who’s jersey you’d like to see this sloth wearing let me know, and I’ll see about doing alternate versions.
This could also be just called ‘Figure Skating Sloth’, but I was specifically looking at Ice Dance costumes when I was getting my references.
I also discovered that the representative from Slothdonia is probably at a helluva disadvantage in the judging, because, uh, most of the moves that require legs in the air and so forth just, um, just don’t work when you’re shaped like a potato with very short legs…
I’ll be honest, one of the reasons I love working on this series is the fact that I get to draw Sloths in really ridiculous outfits. And the OFFICIAL OLYMPIC rules on the uniforms for beach volleyball are so stupid that this is what most of them wear. How ridiculous is that?? It’s like an invitation to get sand in uncomfortable places!!
Cue the (original) Hockey Night In Canada theme! Hockey Sloth is here to shoot, to score!!
I had so much fun designing this, possibly the ugliest hockey uniform imaginable.
It occurred to me, once I had this Sloth finished that I could easily re-colour the lineart to do versions in existing hockey uniforms. If that’s something you’d be interested in, please comment/reblog/whatever with the team you’d like to see represented!
