Scooter's Practice Video, FIRS' Olympic Drive, World Inline Cup Expands, Skate Podium News, Revotech, Alexandra Ianculescu Article, Bike Crash Videos

Scooter's Practice Video: I've made a video from some of the footage that I shot at last Monday's Scooter's Indoor Speed Club practice- click here to view or press play below- I think that just the song alone is worth listening to; enjoy-


FIRS' Olympic Drive: The Federation Internationale de Roller Sports is making a drive towards Olympic inclusion. You can read FIRS' president's Sabatino Aracu's editorial here. He writes 'We want Roller sports in the Olympic Games, so here is the project 'ROLLER FOR OLYMPICS by FIRS': a new professional project, with a new unique logo and an increased staff in the FIRS Headquarters in Rome, with distinguished roles and responsibilities working on different activities according to planned deadlines.' and goes on to add 'as you can see, this is more than a project, this represents for us a real lifetime dream coming true. I trust in your total co-operation, as our dream can become true in Copenhagen 2009, and open us the doors to the 2016 Olympic Games'.


World Inline Cup Expands: I like this post by Alex Bont; WIC Expands- he says 'The WIC has just announced that they will have new events in Holland and Italy... FIRS and the WIC will team up to make joint proposals to the IOC in regards to including inline speed skating in the Olympics'.

Skate Podium News: More and more news coming from Skate Podium; see Het dilemma van Sandra 't Hart, read about FlevOnIce in Opening Flevonice over vijf dagen, and an interview with Christijn Groeneveld.


Revotech: Here's a link for you to explore around- Revotech.


Alexandra Ianculescu Article: The article Young skater bridges gap between old, new homes focuses on Alexandra Ianculescu- I like it because it bridges ice, inline, youth, experience, the past, and the future.


Alexandra Ianculescu in Calgary in 2005 while a candidate for Own The Podium
Bike Crash Videos: One of my good friends sent me this video from the 1991 TDF- 1991 Tour De France Abdu Crash!!- he suggested I wait for the overhead shot at the end of the video- and man oh man, it looked like a prett damn nasty crash.


Chances are that if you check out that video on YouTube, you'll see a link on the right box (related videos) called Tour de France BIG CRASH 9/7-2007. Ugh!