Beijing 08 Olympics
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Beijing 080808 Video Contest
The Beijing Games are the most anticipated Olympics in a generation. The once closed country of China has invested billions of dollars to throw the biggest and best coming out party the world has ever seen. TrackandFieldtours.com and Flotrack are teaming up to get you and a friend to the Olympics. TrackandFieldtours.com is the best way to catch all the track action in Beijing. It's so good that a lot of their clients are the athletes' family and friends. Track and Field Tours owners, Adam and Jessica Dailey were both Footlocker finalists and ran at the University of Arkansas who, like us at Flotrack, saw a need in our sport and decided to do something about it. The best uploaded video will win a track fans dream vacation, a trip for two to the 08 games with tickets to the track events. For more info about the wining prize and about the community's own Adam and Jessica Dailey click Track and Field Tours.
Win a trip to the 2008 Games in Beijing, China! Get your videos ready because the best uploaded video wins a pair of flights, hotel accommodations and tickets to the track competitions at the 08 Beijing Games. The contest is sponsored by Track & Field Tours. Visit their website at trackandfieldtours.com
Rules
- The Best uploaded running/track related video wins 2 tickets to see the '08 Beijing Games.
- You can upload as many videos as you want.
- The winning video will be picked by the track community based on the number of votes it receives.
- The contest will be in 2 phases: Those who upload a video before Feb 12, 2008 and those who upload videos afterwards. The top 6 vote getting videos from phase 1 and the top 4 vote getting videos from phase 2 will move on to a final voting competition. The video that gets the most votes from these remaining 10 will be declared the winner.
- We do not care where you are from... but here is the catch: If you are not from the US. we will only put up to $3000 USD for both of your tickets.
- To win you must be 18 years or older or you must be accompanied by an adult
- The contest is sponsored by trackandfieldtours.com. Winner will receive 2 airline tickets, hotel accommodations, and tickets to see the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
- Note. Videos that we find inappropriate (pornographic or obscene) will be disqualified and removed from the competition and the person who uploaded it runs the risk of having all their videos disqualified.
- Rules are subject to change.
Schedule
Phase 1
Nov 16, 2007: Phase 1 video uploading begins.
Feb 07, 2008: Phase 1 uploading stops and voting on videos begins.
Far 29, 2008: Top 6 vote getting videos move to the final round .
Phase 2
Feb 07, 2008: Phase 2 uploading begins.
May 15, 2008: Phase 2 uploading stops and voting begins
Jun 11, 2008: Top 4 vote getting videos move to the final round. (Voting ends at 11:59pm CST)
Jun 14, 2008: Votes are reset and top 10 videos battle it out.
Jun 26, 2008: Winner of Beijing contest is announced.
Blue Soles - Duke Women's Cross Country 2005
A Short Documentary of the 2005 Duke Women's Cross Country Team as they prepare for the NCAA Cross Country Championships In Terra Haute.
If you have a few minutes please watch. In 2004 the team won their division championship and placed second in the NCAA X-country finals. In 2005 they again won their division and were ranked #1 for the 2005 NCAA finals in Terra Haute, Indiana. The women on this team were tauted as the best recruiting class in recent history and this was their last race together as a team. This is a short video that Shannon hopes to expand into a full length film in the near future.
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 | THis was awesome! |
| Agreed |
| Great job by Shannon Rowbury on this mini documentary of the Duke Women's 2005 cross country season |
| Great video depicting what the team goes through! |
| Inspirational |
| women's cross country is for girls.... |
| at 55 sec that chicks got the mean bum! |
| that was awesome |
| shannon, awesome video! |
| Good Stuff- I like the white uni's, they are kinda have a modern day "Chariots of Fire" look I tell you! |
| Love this Video and have passed it on to many! |
| Wonderful achievement!!!!!!! |
| Wow. This is intense. Truly a new perspective that shows these runners' love and devotion to a very intense sport. |
| i love this video!! anyboyd know what the names of the song's played in this video are? |
| go duke |
| the first song is "unforgettable fire" by U2. |
| great! |
| Congrats to you and the other 3 who made it in this phase.....great video choices for people to vote on. Good luck to everyone in the final round. |
| Someones not cheating |
 | the credits song is by the conells its called 74/75 |
| so...the rowburys are probably already going to Beijing, but they need more tickets or something? |
| The vid was good but the only problem I have is that Gary Rowbury submitted it. Did he even actually fully make the video by himself? that is what I want to know. |
 | In response to Legit Or Not and Sorry: I videotaped at least 50% of the footage in this video and my daughter edited it. I didn't realize it was a problem to have friends and family as actors or technicians. As to the other question. There is no provision made for the families of athletes in any event. It is the responsibility of each family member to provide for themselves. The costs are quite high, $2000 flight, $400 plus per night hotel, $200 per event, that's close to $4000 for seven days per person. Add food and transportation and you would easily be around $10,000 with no frills. If Shannon makes it through the trials we will be going, but we don't have tickets at this time. |
| Way to go! Good luck in the finals - both trials and video! |
| GOOOO Shannon. Love to you from your friends and fans in Sunnyvale, CA |
 | Walk on the Ocean - Toad the Wet Sprocket (song playing while she is talking about training when injured)......can't believe I remember that but actually saw them in concert with Hootie back in 1993 or so. |
