11.26.2008 at
15:22 by
alexziller
from an email I got at work:
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Dear colleagues,
from June 12 - 15 2009 the 13th Atomiade will take place in Berlin. Atomiade is a great sport event of European research institutes that is held every three years. It’s organized by ‘ASCERI’ (Association of the Sports Communities of the European Research Institutes), pls. see: www.asceri.org. IPP is member of ASCERI.
That means that everybody employed by IPP as well as the family members may participate at Atomiade.
At the last Atomiades there have been about 1300 sportsmen from 38 research institutes from 13 countries - a really impressive event!
There are as well single disciplines like athletics, cycling and swimming as well as team sports like soccer, (beach) volleyball, tennis and a lot more.
I published an overview on my homepage at.
http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~has/Atomiade2009/atomiade2009.html
You’ll find more information at:
http://www.helmholtz-berlin.de/events/atomiade/
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08.25.2008 at
13:59 by
alexziller
at least for me 
.. and for at least 2 reasons:
1. number of medals pro population (weighting gold > silver > bronze). Here the table
2. number of world records pro million of inhabitants (ok, I didn’t calculate it for each country, but I am pretty sure no country performed better then Jamaica: 3 world records and 2.8 Mil people - for comparison Australia: 7 WR and 21 Mil people)
One should also consider the kind of gold medals and world records Jamaica scored. (Athletics 100m+200m+4*100m, which are among the top competitive discipline at the olympic games)
Ok, Athletics is only a part of the Olympic Games, and I don’t want to say Athletics is more important than other sports, but how to say.. I am so happy for Jamaica! 
AZ
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08.18.2008 at
22:12 by
alexziller
This guy really knows what counts in life: his “pasta & pizza” based diet seems to be the secret behind the 8 gold medals in Beijing…
from the Wall Street Journal Health Blog:
Lunch: One pound of enriched pasta. Two large ham and cheese sandwiches with mayo on white bread. 
Energy drinks packing 1,000 calories.
Dinner: One pound of pasta. An entire pizza. More energy drinks.
PS: 1 pound ~ 0.5 Kg
Then he should devote at least one medal to Italy .. or pay some royalties to italian pasta manufactures (I suppose he only eat original pasta) or make some donations to the city of Naples.. (–> history of pizza )
[thanks to Ed for the tip]
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08.14.2008 at
20:29 by
alexziller
This Saturday we are especting a tremendously exciting 100m final at the Olympic Games in Beijing. [if you already look suspicious and wanna discuss about doping, please refer to the previous thread]. Look at this video, it’s stirring.
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08.12.2008 at
22:21 by
alexziller
I know, this could hurt some of you.
Olympic games are started, plenty of records have been scored (especially in the swimming pool) and most of the discussions I have now with people are about doping and “technologization” of performance.
Should we enjoy a world record or should we blame it?
please read this article from NYT, entitled “Let the Games Be Doped”.
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