RSO Speed Series #3 Photos, Pan American Games Pictures #1 Of 2 (Travel, People, Rio)

RSO Speed Series #3 Photos: There was an RSO Speed Series race today> The turnout was pretty good for this 3rd of 4 RSO Speed Series races. Despite a few falls and a few drop outs, the racing action was pretty intense. Top 3 in men were Jesse Pauley, Travis Shaw, and Morgan Williams. Top 3 in women were Sarah Hopkins, Morgane Echardour, and Dominique Lalonde. Results will be posted later here and on the RSO series website. Click here for the photos or if you like, check out the slide show below (there are 100+ photos).



2007-07-29 Toronto RSO #3
Pan American Games Pictures #1 Of 2 (Travel, People, Rio): I will post my Pan American Games pictures today and tomorrow. I divided the photos into 5 sets; travel, people, Rio, Village, and Racing. I'll link to the photo albums and embed some of the pictures that I like into SSW with a short description. The links to the photo albums are just below the slideshows. Enjoy!

Here are the direct links to the albums; 2007 Pan American Games Travel, 2007 Pan American Games People, and 2007 Pan American Games Rio. Two more albums will be featured tomorrow.

I'll work on putting the videos together this week.



2007-07 Brazil Pan Am Games Travel (17 photos)


2007-07 Brazil Pan Am Games People (87 photos)


2007-07 Pan American Games Rio (53 photos)

Most of the televisions in Brazil were set to Pan American Games events

Police escorts and lanes dedicated to the Pan American Games shuttles and buses were common in Rio de Janeiro

Mexico's Ana Gabriela Celedon, Veronica Elias Alvarado, and Jose Nathanael Munoz Ortega

Mexico's Alan Coronado stretches before one of his sprint races

USA's Jessica Smith helps Brittany Bowe with her radio

The team from Chile

Colombia's Jorge Luis Cifuentes being interviewed. He went on to win the gold medal in the men's distance

The team from Ecuador

Some of the team members from El Salvador including Diana Paltero (right)

The team from Guatemala

Joey Mantia and Jonathan Garcia- Mantia won the gold in the men's sprint and Garcia finished 4th in the distance

Joey Mantia's gold medal

Martine Charbonneau giving a Canadian pins to one of the security people- security was taken very seriously at the Pan American Games- more on this later

Coach Mike Murray giving last second instructions to Sarah Hopkins

Men's distance podium- 1st- Jorge Luis Cifuentes (Colombia), 2nd- Javier Oyalvis (Venezuela), and 3rd Jorge Bolanos (Ecuador)

Men's sprint podium- 1st- Joey Mantia (USA), 2nd- Damian Fernandez (Argentina), and 3rd- Juan Jardines (Venezuela)

Women's distance podium- 1st- Jessica Smith (USA), 2nd- Alexandra Vivas(Colombia), and 3rd- Sylvina Posada (Argentina)

Women's sprint podium- 1st- Brittany Bowe (USA), 2nd- Carolina Santibanez (Chile), and 3rd- Melisa Bonnet (Argentina)

Rafael Vitor (sprint- Brazil) with the webmaster of Rio Inline

Canadians galore- Martine Charbonneau, me, Brian Jalbert, Sarah Hopkins, and Kathleen Montgomery (arts)

Fun times at night; Ruben Martinez (Argentina), Tony Garcia (Cuba), Dayron Pineda (Cuba), and I

Brian Jalbert, Sarah Hopkins, me, and Martine Charbonneau

Tony Garcia (Cuba) skated very well- he was an animal out on the track, pushing the pace and cracking skaters in half!

This statue called Cristo Redentor- one of the new 7 wonds of the world- it's location offers a breath-taking view of Rio de Janeiro

Looking over at the Sugar Loaf mountain (right) from the Cristo

More Rio from the Cristo

This highway hugs the Atlantic ocean- it's very very nice to look at and be on

One of the slums of Rio

A view from the first level of the Sugar Loaf mountain- we had to go up by cable car

One of the cable cars that takes us up the Sugar Loaf