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August 30, 2004
Mondo Italiano at the Olympics
Posted by Nick
I'm back from vacation. Take a look at a couple of pieces I recently did for Slate. This one is on the track surface used at the Athens games. Made by the Italian company Mondo, it's pretty cool synthetic syrface.
Another piece I wrote is on the evolution of techniques in the "heavy" athletics -- shot put, javelin, discus and hammer. There was a lot of history I unearthed that didn't make the final cut. (For example, discus was originally a competition in which men threw their shields for distance; hammer throw started out as burly men throwing chariot wheels for distance... after a while they just threw the wheel hub with a spoke attached as the handle.)
I had a blast researching and reporting these pieces. Let me know your thoughts and what you'd like to see more of in the future.
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Nick Schulz is the Editor of Tech Central Station and has worked in media circles and the ideas industry as a writer, editor, television producer and policy analyst. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Slate, The National Post of Canada, The Baltimore Sun, Investor's Business Daily, The Washington Times, National Review, Reason, Policy Review, and several other publications. He is also, it should be said, a rabid sports fan whose fandom is inversely proportional to his overall athletic ability.
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