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Friday, August 29, 2008
Another Registered Kinesiologist at the Olympics
- Rick Kaselj
Canadian Triathlete Has big Hill to Climb
by Vicki Hall - Canwest News Service - August 16, 2008
BEIJING -- Carolyn Murray's Olympic journey has been a long haul.
And finally, the moment is upon her.
"You can feel the energy here, just coming off the airplane," the St. Albert, Alta., native said Saturday. "We got all these clothes with 'Canada' on them, so it really hits home that you are representing your country, and that's always something that I wanted to do."
Back in 2001, Murray's role representing her country was limited to her job as a health and fitness coordinator for CN Rail.
The job made use of her kinesiology degree from Simon Fraser University, but she felt something was seriously missing.
"It was OK," she said. "But I'm definitely not meant for a nine-to-five job. Not many people are, I think.
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Rick Kaselj – rkaselj@HealingThroughMovement.com
Registered Kinesiologist - Surrey, BC, Canada
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Monday, August 25, 2008
BC Kin Battles in Beijing
For Thinking Women Only
GlobeAndMail.com - by Allan Maki - August 19, 2008
BEIJING -- Crashes, we get. Crashes, we can understand.
As they scraped the three fallen cyclists off the wooden track inside the Laoshan Velodrome, even the morons among the full house knew that this Olympic points race was over for the three bruised women being led away by Chinese paramedics.
As for the rest of the race, it was a mystery wrapped in an enigma going in circles. At designated times, the cyclists raced like mad. At other times, they fell back into a large clot as if they were pedalling around in a city park daring someone to take the lead.
Keywords - Olympics, Vancouver 2010, Beijing Olympics, Vancouver Olympics, Gina Grain
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Rick Kaselj – rkaselj@HealingThroughMovement.com
Kinesiologist, Author, Presenter
Surrey/Langley, BC, Canada
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