Month: February 2010
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Marketing the Olympic Meterorologist?
Jeff Renner is one of the local meteorologists here in Seattle. For the Olympics, KING 5 has been running a promo featuring his appearance at the starting gate of an Olympic downhill event. The skiier, at the last moment, asks him for advice and he immediately explains, without consulting any equipment or charts, that the…
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Yahoo! thinks Olympic Math is “complex”
Yahoo! reported that Aya Yasuda was disqualified from her Olympic luge event because her sled was over weight. The story said that there was a “complex formula” to use to calculate the amount of ballast lugers can add to make up the difference between their own body weight and a maximum, which is different for…