Olympic Rings And Other Things blog

01/29/2026

With thanks to US Speedskating, here are notes from the recent Team USA Olympics Trials to set the team of skaters for MilanoCortina2026, including interviews/videos with Erin Jackson and the legendary Bonnie Blair.

Just days after ringing in 2026, U.S. Speedskating hosted the long track Team USA Olympic Trials at The Pettit National Ice Center in the ...

01/20/2026

Feast your eyes on the MilanoCortina2026 Olympics cauldron. What do you think?

11/26/2025

Fresh post for Utah 2034 and new branding options afforded by the Olympics HQ.

Call this post for what it is: A day late and a dollar short. After all, there's no money in blogging, and it was yesterday -- the 3,000 Da...

11/24/2025

Today marks 3,000 days until the Salt Lake City-Utah 2034 Winter Games. What do you think of their just-unveiled logo renaming the organization Utah 2034? Please post comments. Photo via Deseret News.

10/20/2025

Notes from the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 2025 rain-soaked women's high jump final including Nicola, Maria, Yaroslava and Angelina.

The best quote heard in the media mixed zone at Tokyo 2025 came from Ukraine high jump phenom Yaroslava Mahuchikh on the event's closing ni...

10/14/2025

Notes from the first full day in Tokyo in relation to World Athletics.

Home 3.5 weeks since Tokyo, jetlag looms but experiences resonate from eight days and nights in the flowery city. With thanks to the team a...

09/15/2025

Blogging's back!

On a rainy night at Rio's 2016 Olympic closing ceremony, when Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe emerged as the Nintendo plumber renamed "Ma-...

07/24/2024

Notes from that time when I met Emmanuel Macron at his house.

It was the best of selfies, it was the worst of selfies. Presidential ones, that is. On Monday (22 July), French President Emmanuel Macron...

07/21/2024

Chats about the Olympics Village experience with USA Skateboarding (Team USA) athletes Mariah Duran, Paige Heyn and Poe Pinson as well as Venezuela judo Olympian Anriquelis Barrios via this link:

One of my favorite Olympic observations took place at Beijing 2008, not far from the Main Press Center and Water Cube. Dozens of pin collec...

07/19/2024

Notes from first visit to the Paris 2024 Olympics village.

Back in 1996, a couple of colleagues with the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) international relations team composed an origin...

07/17/2024

Did you know there's a Musee Rodin pin for 2024? Who'da thought? Check it out on this fresh post.

My expectations were simple for a premier visit to Mus é e Rodin , one of Paris' main museums skipped during prior travels. What a treat!...