My post in the Press Tribune – Nice view huh?

Whew! it’s been a whirlwind the last 4 days of competition at the ROO!

Ice making issues, delays in competition, crazy busy sleep deprived reporters, ‘gate crashers’, etc… It all makes for an exciting, fun and tiring experience.

The Press Tribune area that I work in is [...]

Early shift again this morning at the Oval… 8:00am-2:00pm.

Training is definitely heating up with serious laps being run by many of the athletes, since this is one of the last training days they’ll have before the Opening Ceremonies tomorrow evening. Lots of Canadian, Chinese, Korean and Dutch skaters were on before the first ice-flood [that's [...]

The Olympic Flame rolled through our neighbourhood yesterday.

We had thought about watching the mini-cauldron being lit in the Richmond O Zone [the celebration site I've been working on for months in design prep, and for the last two weeks setting up], but we had correctly assumed that it would be packed and that it would [...]

It was quiet, or at least as quiet as it will ever be at an Olympic Venue…

It was a training day so not a ton of press in the building. BUT there were a number of notable athletes in training sessions throughout the morning. Training athletes included the USA team [yep, including Shani Davis - [...]