{"id":1341,"date":"2010-02-07T16:51:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2010-02-07T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T21:51:36","slug":"getting-ready-for-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/getting-ready-for-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready For The Olympics!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1342\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"vancouver-2010\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/images\/vancouver-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"248\" \/>The Olympics, no singular event as large and heralded in the world. \u00a0And they start this Friday, I&#8217;m stoked to say the least! \u00a0After attending the Olympics myself in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/2006\/02\/olympics\/\">Torino, Italy in 2006<\/a>, it&#8217;s safe to say I&#8217;m addicted. \u00a0I watched the 2008 Summer Olympics with great interest and the Winter Games, my favorite of the 2, really have me ready again. \u00a0Unfortunately, during the 2006 Olympics, because I was studying in Italy, I could only watch highlights online. \u00a0This time around though, I plan on watching as many events as I can!<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, I&#8217;m really anticipating the hockey games. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the schedule I&#8217;ll be following &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/olympic-hockey\/schedule-and-results\/men_ihm400000vpreliminary-Vj.html\" target=\"_blank\">Hockey Schedule <\/a>. \u00a0Here in Pittsburgh, we have a few key athletes to follow, obviously one being Sidney Crosby for the Canadians. \u00a0Obviously, I&#8217;ll be rooting for Team U-S-A, but after that, I&#8217;ll be fun to also hope to see some good Canadian hockey in Canada! \u00a0The Canadians are so pumped for Sid, this Tim Hortons video makes me even jealous of their hockey heritage:<br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hTrmIJ7SkC0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hTrmIJ7SkC0&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;border=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now, Sid&#8217;s not the only hockey star to follow. \u00a0Brooks Orpik (USA), Ryan Malone &#8211; Pittsburgh native! (USA), Sergei Gonchar (Russia), and Evgeni Malkin (Russia), \u00a0will all be there too! \u00a0But one new hockey player going, that many don&#8217;t know about quite yet, is Robert Morris University alumni goaltender <a href=\"http:\/\/sentry.rmu.edu\/web\/cms\/newsevents\/foundations\/Pages\/makingtheteam.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Brianne McLaughlin<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rmucolonials.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=59605&amp;SPID=6531&amp;DB_OEM_ID=13900&amp;ATCLID=1229723&amp;Q_SEASON=2008\" target=\"_blank\">stats<\/a>)! \u00a0She&#8217;s an Ohio native, but played her entire college career at RMU and is also the NCAA record holder for career saves! \u00a0Talk about cool, check out the billboard below (courtesy of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RMUnews\" target=\"_blank\"> Robert Morris on Facebook<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1344\" title=\"rmu-olympics\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/images\/rmu-olympics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/images\/rmu-olympics.jpg 466w, http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/images\/rmu-olympics-300x94.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympics, no singular event as large and heralded in the world. \u00a0And they start this Friday, I&#8217;m stoked to say the least! \u00a0After attending the Olympics myself in\u00a0Torino, Italy in 2006, it&#8217;s safe to say I&#8217;m addicted. \u00a0I watched the 2008 Summer Olympics with great interest and the Winter Games, my favorite of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wjfuoco.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}