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from The Human Impact:
Could there be another female F1 driver? Susie Wolff thinks so
When Susie Wolff first got behind the wheel of a race cart as a young girl, the experience didn’t give her the thrills.
"My first time out on the race track, I remember carts flying past me - much quicker - and this little boy - really aggressive - hitting me as I was going past," she said.
She thought about giving up but her father – a racing enthusiast - encouraged her to be persistent and the second time around young Wolff was thrilled by the speed, the adrenaline and the competitive spirit of racing.
A couple of decades later, Wolff is a Formula One development driver for the British racing team Williams, and pushing to race alongside the men in a F1 race.
from Breakingviews:
Bayern’s profits shine in fickle football economy
By Olaf Storbeck
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
In the mid 60s, the executives of a minuscule football club from southern Germany, Bayern Munich, travelled north to Cologne to visit the country’s most successful team. They wanted to learn how to run a professional sports club. And learn they did. Bayern has dominated the Bundesliga, Germany’s professional league, ever since.
from Photographers Blog:
When baseballs attack
By Darryl Webb
"I was really glad I saw it coming."
I know that statement above sounds a little confusing so allow me to explain.
I don't know how many professional sporting events I've covered in the last 20 years. Let's just say it's been a lot and in all that time I've never been hurt. There have been a couple of close calls here and there, but nothing serious until earlier this week.
Had I not seen this sphere coming toward me at a blistering speed, the end result could have been a lot worse. I'm not saying it would have been as bad as Sports Illustrated's photographer John Iacono, who was hit by an overthrown ball in 1999, shattering his jaw which resulted in two titanium plates, some wire mess and something like 20 screws. But it definitely would have been worse than a headache, a bump on the head and two hours spent at Urgent Care.
from The Human Impact:
A refugee, an amputee, a marathon runner: Abdifatah’s story
Abdifatah Dhuhulow takes a break from some training in London’s Hyde Park, February 17, 2012. ALERTNET/Shanshan Chen
For someone who struggles to run a few metres before collapsing with a stitch, I'm constantly amazed by the skill of long-distance runners, and used to think crossing the finishing line of a marathon was the height of physical achievement -- until meeting Abdifatah Dhuhulow.
from Breakingviews:
BRICs raise relegation risk for European soccer
By Ian Campbell
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
Global wealth is shifting south and east and the world’s best soccer players appear to be following. Nicolas Anelka is on his way from Chelsea, the top-flight London club, to Shanghai. Samuel Eto’o, meanwhile, is heading to the Russian North Caucasus region, having starred for Internazionale of Milan and a Barcelona side which is one of the finest to grace the stadiums of western Europe.
from Breakingviews:
Don’t boo U.S. football’s zero-coupon perpetuals
By Jeffrey Goldfarb
The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.
The Green Bay Packers are on some kind of streak. The venerable U.S. football team has followed up last year’s Super Bowl victory with 12 consecutive wins to start this season. It is now parlaying the local exuberance into an unconventional investment achievement.
from Oddly Enough Blog:
Signs that you made a dumb career move
Blog Guy, your career advice is very useful, especially your tips on possible indicators that we may have taken the wrong career path at some point. Thanks to your last one, my brother got out of the bee-wearing profession.
Thanks. Here's a tip that a surprising number of young urban professionals tend to overlook, what with their busy schedules.
from Photographers Blog:
Boxing their own worst enemy
On some of my first trips around Sao Paulo after moving here, I caught glimpses of life under the city’s many highway viaducts, whether it was of people storing recyclable waste or even living under the bridges. I refer to my roaming excursions in this city as “trips,” because this massive city of nearly 20 million inhabitants is a world in itself.
One day, as I gradually widened my geographic range and knowledge of my new city, I spotted people practicing sports under one bridge. It was a brief view but long enough to register in my mind. So when I read soon after about a boxing school under a viaduct and went to search it out, I realized immediately it was the same one I had spotted that day.
from The Great Debate UK:
Progress, but women journalists not home free
Linda Kay is a former sportswriter with the Chicago Tribune (and the first woman to write sports for the paper), an associate professor and chair of the journalism department at Concordia University in Montreal. She is author of a forthcoming book called "The Sweet Sixteen" about a group of groundbreaking women journalists in Canada. The opinions expressed are her own. Thomson Reuters is hosting a live blog on March 8, 2011, to mark International Women's Day.
My students are often surprised to learn that one hundred years ago, women were working as journalists in Canada. According to the 1911 census, some 70 women across the country were categorized as “journalists, editors and reporters.”
from Photographers Blog:
Before a ball is bowled
Reuters Photographer Parivartan Sharma takes us to the town of Meerut, north of Delhi, where cricket balls are still being made the old-fashioned way - by hand. India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh will co-host the 2011 Cricket World Cup starting on February 19.
The Making Of A Cricket Ball - Cricket World Cup Preview from Vivek Prakash on Vimeo.
