This video says about itself:
Watch this incredible acceleration at the world sprint speed skating competition in Hamar, January 2007, Shani Davis – Lobkov
In the 10 February paper edition of Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad is an interview with African American world speed skating champion Shani Davis.
The headlines say: No Hollywood, but skating.
American Shani Davis does not want glory, money, or a meeting with ‘devil’ Bush
From the interview:
“I would never go to the president.
That man is the devil”, Davis says.
“I was invited twice; I declined politely though.
However, I did go to meet the Reverend Jesse Jackson.
I really can’t understand why sports people should go to the president.
It is a show, a game, to show how proud we are of the nation.
A handshake, a photograph, and you will never hear anything from him again”.
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YouTube video: Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Pro
Posted by: “Charles Jenks” charles@traprockpeace.org chaspeace
Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:57 pm (PST)
Nation writer Dave Zirin and Public Enemy’s Chuck D
discuss their new book, Welcome to the Terrordome:The
Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports , on May 15, 2007
at The Schomburg Center for Study in Black Culture in
Harlem, NYC. (9:45 minutes)
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Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin, Press Action’s 2005 and 2006 Sportswriter of the Year,
has been called “an icon in the world of progressive sports”. Robert
Lipsyte says he is “the best young sportswriter in the United
States.” He is both a columnist for SLAM Magazine, a regular
contributor to the Nation Magazine, and a semi-regular op-ed writer
for the Los Angeles Times.
His first book “What’s My Name, Fool?” Sports and Resistance in the
United States” (Haymarket Books) has entered its second printing and
is available in stores and at haymarketbooks.org.
His new book “The Muhammad Ali Handbook” was publlished for MQ
Publications.
Please scroll down for tour dates in your area… this exemplary read
promises opening the eyes of even those like me who never thought
much of the games, nor how the sports world affects our daily lives.
Yet, as a veteran activist am impacted by the singular event in 1968,
Oct 2nd, Tlatelolco, where our companeros died and the sacred ‘plaza
de las tres culturas’ were cleared for the Olympic games – where the
ghosts of the students killed protecting their ancient center in
protest, and the survivors pledged: ‘no un momento de silencio, toda
una vida de lucha!/Not one minute of silence, an entire life of
struggle!” Where Luis Gonzales de Alba, voiced: “There was one Mexico
before 1968 and one Mexico afterward, Tlatelolco was the dividing
line.” There, where the famed black glove salute of Tommie Smith and
John Carlos, (who wore gloves not to touch the skin of racist
Brundage and whose primal demand was his removal as head of the
Olympic Committee). Enlightenment came via the ‘Olympic Project for
Human Rights,’ initiated by Dr. Harry Edwards, courageously brought
forward by Dennis Brutus, whose shining light in the darkness is
intrinsic in the mandate and effort be continued today as a true,
living justice for the martyrs of 1968, resurrected to “haunt a new
generation of Echeverrias already planning security operations in
Bejing and London.” Exemplified in the words of Professor Ethel Pitts-
Walker at the unveiling of the statue in honor of Smith and Carlos at
San Jose State. She expressed, “For them to become immortalized, the
living must take up their activism and continue their work.”
Dorinda Moreno, Hitec Aztec Communications, Elders of 4 Colors 4
Directions,
IWD “We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For”/ Fuerza Mundo
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On June 1st, Zirin’s long-awaited “Welcome to the Terrordome: The
Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports” for Haymarket Books (with a
foreword by the immortal Chuck D.) was released.
He is a weekly television commentator [via satellite] for The Score,
Canada’s number one 24-hour sports network.
Zirin has brought his blend of sports and politics to multiple
television programs including ESPN’s Outside the Lines, ESPN Classic,
the BBC’s Extratime, CNBC’s The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch (debating
steroids with Jose Canseco and John Rocker), C-SPAN’s BookTV, the
WNBC Morning News in New York City; and Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.
He has also been on numerous national radio programs including
National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation; Air America and XM
Radio’s On the Real’ with Chuck D and Gia’na Garel; The Laura
Flanders Show, Radio Nation with Marc Cooper; ESPN radio; Stars and
Stripes Radio; WOL’s The Joe Madison Show; Pacifica’s Hard Knock
Radio, and many others.
He is also the Thursday morning sports voice on WBAI’s award winning
“Wake Up Call with Deepa Fernandes.”
Zirin is also working on “A People’s History of Sports,” part of
Howard Zinn’s People’s History series for the New Press. In addition
he just signed to do a book with Scribner (Simon & Schuster.)
Zirin is the author of a children’s book called “My Name is Erica
Montoya de la Cruz” (RC Owen).
He is working on a sports documentary with Barbara Kopple’s Cabin
Creek films on sports and social movements in the United States.
Zirin’s writing has also appeared in New York Newsday, the Baltimore
Sun, CBSNEWS.com, The Pittsburgh Courier, The Source, and numerous
other publications.
*Dave Berkman, Wisconsin Public Radio
June 13 (Wednesday) Chicago, IL Public Square event with Etan Thomas
– Place and time TBA
June 14 (Thursday) to
June 17 (Sunday) Chicago, IL Socialism 2007 – This is a weekend long
conference with more than 100 meetings and events. I will be speaking
on a panel with former NFL player Anthony Prior and 1968 Olympian Dr.
John Carlos. For more info. visit http://www.socialismconference.org.
June 18 (Monday) St. Louis, MO Left bank books 7:00pm
June 19 (Tuesday) Minneapolis, MN May Day Bookstore 7:00pm
June 20 (Wednesday) Chicago, IL 57th St. Books 7:00pm
June 23 (Saturday) to
June 24 (Sunday) Washington DC American Library Association
Conference – with AK Press Distribution
June 26 (Tuesday) Baltimore, MD Red Emmas 7:00pm
June 27 (Wednesday) Boston, MA Brookline Booksmiths 7:00pm
July 7 (Saturday) Asheville, NC Malaprops Bookstore 7:00pm
July 10 (Tuesday) San Francisco, CA New College auditorium with
Modern Times 7:00pm
July 11 (Wednesday) San Francisco, CA Cody’s 7:00pm
July 13 (Friday) La Jolla CA DG Wills Bookstore 7:00pm
July 14 (Saturday) Los Angeles, CA IMIX Books 2:00pm
July 14 (Saturday) Los Angeles, CA Eso Won Bookstore 7:00pm
July 17 (Tuesday) Washington, DC Politics and Prose Bookstore 7:00pm
– 5015 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. For more info. call (202)364-1919 or
visit http://www.politics-prose.com.
July 18 (Wednesday) Atlanta, GA Acappella Books 7:00pm
July 31 (Tuesday) Baltimore, MD Central Library 6:30pm
August 1 (Wednesday) New York, NY Hue-Man Books 6:00pm
August 2 (Thursday) Philadelphia, PA Robin’s Books 6:00pm
August 3 (Friday) Seattle, WA Elliot Bay 5:30pm
August 6 (Monday) Portland, OR Powells 7:30pm
August 7 (Tuesday) Boulder, CO Left Hand Books 7:00pm
August 8 (Wednesday) Denver, CO Tattered Cover Bookstore 7:30pm
August 13 (Monday) Washington DC Busboys and Poets 7:00pm
Archive
05/29/07 – Jason Giambi: Blowing Whistles in the Wind
05/20/07 – Bonds-bashing: bad sport
As the slugger closes in on the home run record, the anti-Bonds club
is practicing an ugly double standard.
05/17/07 – Being Ali Or Being Owned: An Open Letter to LeBron
05/08/07 – Jason Whitlock: The Clown Prince of Bizarro World
05/03/07 – Talking Sports from Death Row with Kevin Cooper
04/27/07 – Football and Nikki Giovanni at Va. Tech
04/23/07 – No Scapegoating: Hip-hop is Not The Problem
04/12/07 – Memo to Imus: You’re Fired
04/11/07 – Don Imus and the End of Silence
04/04/07 – Picking our pockets with the Olympics
03/29/07 – Why I Wrote The Muhammad Ali Handbook
03/21/07 – Jocks 4 Justice Speak out for Gary Tyler
03/16/07 – Bowie Kuhn: The Death of a Baseball Reactionary
03/05/07 – Resurrecting Don Barksdale: Basketball’s Forgotten Pioneer
02/25/07 – An Open Letter to Jason Whitlock
02/19/07 – The Closets in the Locker Room
02/13/07 – Out of the Closet and Onto the Court
02/06/07 – The Super Bowl: When Hawks Cry
01/24/07 – A Tale of Two Coaches
01/18/07 – Ali at 65: The Brand and the Man
01/09/07 – Judgment of the Juiced: Why Mark McGwire Wasn’t Elected to
the Hall of Fame
01/03/07 – The Unraveling of David Stern
12/18/06 – Brawl in the Garden
12/14/06 – Soccer on Chile’s killing field
11/30/06 – Organizing the Jocks for Justice
11/22/06 – Pimping Mike Tyson
11/16/06 – Ohio State, Michigan, and The Threat of Sectarian Violence
11/10/06 – NBA Nirvana: When Players Get Political
11/05/06 – Political Players: Where Athletes Give Their Money
10/24/06 – Tigers v. Cardinals: Baseball in the Ashes of 1968
10/20/06 – Pat Tillman’s Brother Breaks his Silence
10/09/06 – Brother of the Fist: The Passing of Peter Norman
09/29/06 – Big Easy Blues: Saints and the Superdome
09/24/06 – The Marbury Question: Sneakers for Social Justice?
09/18/06 – In Defense of Etan Thomas
09/06/06 – Cops vs. Jocks: The Shooting of Steve Foley
08/27/06 – Varsity Ruse: High School Football Today
08/16/06 – The Problem with Troops and Hoops
08/02/06 – You Can Keep the Faith
07/24/06 – You’re a Good Man, Larry Brown
07/11/06 – Why Today I Wear My Zidane Jersey
07/07/06 – French Soccer and the Future of Europe
06/29/06 – The NBA Draft: Prom Night Gets Political
06/11/06 – Racism Stalks the Cup
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Public release date: 23-Dec-2007
Contact: Federico Formenti
federico.formenti@dpag.ox.ac.uk
Wiley-Blackwell
Where and why humans made skates out of animal bones
Archaeological evidence shows that bone skates (skates made of animal bones) are the oldest human powered means of transport, dating back to 3000 BC. Why people started skating on ice and where is not as clear, since ancient remains were found in several locations spread across Central and North Europe.
In a recent paper, published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Dr Formenti and Professor Minetti show substantial evidence supporting the hypothesis that the birth of ice skating took place in Southern Finland, where the number of lakes within 100 square kilometres is the highest in the world.
“In Central and Northern Europe, five thousand years ago people struggled to survive the severe winter conditions and it seems unlikely that ice skating developed as a hobby” says Dr Formenti. “As happened later for skis and bicycles, I am convinced that we first made ice skates in order to limit the energy required for our daily journeys”.
Formenti and Minetti did their experiments on an ice rink by the Alps, where they measured the energy consumption of people skating on bones. Through mathematical models and computer simulations of 240 ten-kilometre journeys, their research study shows that in winter the use of bone skates would have limited the energy requirements of Finnish people by 10%. On the other hand, the advantage given by the use of skates in other North European countries would be only about 1%.
Subsequent studies performed by Formenti and Minetti have shown how fast and how far people could skate in past epochs, from 3000BC to date.
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Dr Formenti will be appearing on the ‘You and Yours’ Show on BBC Radio 4 on 24th December at 12.04pm (GMT).
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