Travel Photo PIP: Sports!

[GilliC]

It's time once again for the bi-weekly PIP poll!

In honor of the Olympics, the next theme is:
Sports!

Even if you haven't made a trip to the Olympic Games or the World Cup, you probably have something to share! Jump in the game* and post your pics of anything sports related.

Some ideas to get you started:
- athletic activities you've pursued in your travels (hiking, canoeing, skiing)
- sports events you've attended (football, baseball, bullfighting, sumo?)
- local athletes (surfers off the beach, that cute kid kicking a soccer ball down the street)


*Just for wise_rita I will try to incorporate a cheap pun into each of these posts.

[wise_rita]

Feb 10, 2014 5:12:29 GMT -5 GilliC said:

*Just for wise_rita I will try to incorporate a cheap pun into each of these posts.

[Cicero]

Crappy photo, but:



Storming the field after Geneva's soccer team won a spot in the country's top league.

[Susie]

I don't have any pics from the Atlanta Olympics, which are the only ones I've attended.  Boo!  So we'll have to go small-scale.

When I was in Dublin last May I ran a 5 mile race because hey, why not?  I thought it was funny - I expected it would've been a km-measured race.


Ice climbing on Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska:


Snowshoeing in the Adirondack High Peaks a week ago:

[keweenawlove]

I wish I had some pictures on my computer from my Junior Olympics trips in high school.

Skiing Snowbird last year during a conference in Salt Lake City



Running the New York City marathon. I'm in bright green on the right.



After my mom ran the Boston Marathon



After a 5K race in Kauai

[Cicero]

Also:

The crowd that travelled to the airport an hour away from the city at 6am to welcome Malaysia'a silver medalist in badminton at the London Olympics home:



Michael Schumacher at the KL Grand Prix two years ago:



Tiger at a golf tournament in KL:

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London Feb 2012 at Craven Cottage for Fullham FC (this was before we moved to London)



Te Kuiti, New Zealand Dec 2012 Sheep shearing competition...in a bar.



Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

[sicilygirl]

AC Milan soccer game this past November.



The crazy fans, with a leg over the railing of the upper deck, just balancing there as they lead the other fans in cheers.

[wanderlustfoodie]

First of 2 posts.

Boca Juniors game in BA, which remains one of the craziest sporting events I've ever attended

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FC Barca game where Xavi was honored for tying most-games-played record

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[wanderlustfoodie]

Westminster

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Royal Ascot

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Queen at Ascot

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[wanderlustfoodie]

Feb 10, 2014 11:06:29 GMT -5 @uwhuskygirl said:

London Feb 2012 at Craven Cottage for Fullham FC (this was before we moved to London)



Te Kuiti, New Zealand Dec 2012 Sheep shearing competition...in a bar.



Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010

Craven's Cottage is my favorite London stadium!

[wanderlustfoodie]

Feb 10, 2014 14:08:42 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

wanderlustfoodie, I was so disappointed we couldn't attend a Bocas game when we were in BsAs. I really want to do that, still. Also, quite random but since you posted a photo, Rooney's trainer just won the agility category at the Westminster Dog Show (I've been watching it all weekend).

That's great! I will be watching from home this year.

The Bocas game was crazy. They keep an entire section empty between home and away fans and when a player got red carded he was escorted off the field behind bullet-proof glass.

[G22]

My last college game (I'm in the yellow jersey)


Snowshoeing through Glacier NP last February for my birthday

After finishing my first marathon last Sept

[clseale]

Hiking to the peak of El Yunque


Swimming from island to island in PR. I'm one of the black specs.


Rock-n-roll San Diego Marathon start line


Surf City Marathon: Huntington Beach, CA


Chicago Marathon finish line

[GilliC]

Attending:

Rose Bowl 2001
(I can't believe I have this photo online!)


Nordic World Cup 2007
 

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Participating:


Kayaking in Svalbard:


Trekking in Jotunheim:
 

Cross-country skiing near Lillehammer:

[GilliC]

Feb 10, 2014 17:14:33 GMT -5 @sfgal530 said:

GilliC, we were enemies that day of the Rose Bowl (jealous you went - I decided not to go!), we just didn't know it.

I had the better view (we were in the players' section, just a few seats over from the parents of Drew Brees) but you guys won. So it's all fair in the end!

[mdgirl]

Yay sports!

During one of our trips to Paris the Scottish national soccer team was playing the French national team and there were guys in kilts everywhere.



Vancouver Olympics





AT&T Park for a Mets game (we could see Keith Hernandez in the booth from these seats, which was awesome)



Winter Classic at Wrigley Field (2009)



Video! Crazy fans at the Yomiuri Giants game in Tokyo (bonus of the awesome beer girls)

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[daisypaloma]

[mdgirl]

And as far as something I've done, I'm in this canoe:



I got started after paddling on Maui.

[scout8]

Fall hike around Chicago:


We do a hike every year on New Year's Day. This year, the weather didn't cooperate, but we still tried!


Leon, Nicaragua.


Hiking on Isla del Sol, Bolivia. Obviously, we like to hike!

[christy082]

  
View from a hike we took in Kauai.

  
And some pups playing fetch on the beach, also in Kauai.

[alleinesein]

Aamby Valley, Lonavola, India
Coworker soccer match




Soccer Stadium, Santiago, Chile (Colo Colo soccer team)


Chargers vs. Saints at Wembley Stadium, London, UK

[wise_rita]

We are so not sports people!  I really had to dig for this.

Me hiking my ass up (or down) Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh


Me sand toboggan-ing on Moreton Island in Queensland, Australia


Pre-semester activities where I worked in Norway:


Fake sumo wrestling is a sport, OK?! 

[wise_rita]

Gosh these pictures are huge! How do I resize them? I run them through tinypic.com to upload...

[wise_rita]

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[joenali]

In Whistler for Ironman Canada.

[anasara]

Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto!  I am a HUGE hockey fan so it was like going on Hajj for me.

[aurora]

Mountain biking in Utah and cross-country skiing in Alaska with Denali in the background.  Fun times!

Given the fact that more than half of our travel is for sports I had a remarkably difficult time finding photos to post here.

[wise_rita]

Forgot to add! Glacier hiking on Fox Glacier, New Zealand:



Shout out to Cicero for putting the idea into my head!

[GilliC]

Feb 11, 2014 21:18:56 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Fake sumo wrestling is a sport, OK?! 

Of course it is! It's on my list of "Sports I've Watched in Frogner Park"! Along with Capoeira, Earth Ball, Croquet, Slacklining, and of course... Kubb!