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Damo in A.S.P.I.R.E. newsletter
To Quote
"The A.S.P.I.R.E. newsletter is a daily publication for the Australian Olympic team produced each day of the Games.A.S.P.I.R.E. contains news on Olympic performances and from home, results, promotes Village activities and most importantly conveys the "One Team" concept.The newsletter is written and produced by the media section of the Australian Olympic Team."
See http://www.qwa.org/miles/blog/ASPIREBeijing.pdf for Damo's Story
See whole Magazine Here - http://www.olympics.com.au/Portals/3/pdf/aspire/DAY%2012email.pdf
Damo Olympic Games Report
Wallpaper - http://picasaweb.google.com/mwydall/MilesWydallSquadNews/photo#5232742247130383106
Hello everyone just thought I would give an update on the Australian weightlifting team over here. I have finally got a bit of spare time, the first few days have been really busy with functions and uniform fittings. The journey over felt like an eternity even though it was only a 12 hour flight from Sydney. The synchro, softball and table tennis teams were on our flight from Sydney as well.
We got into the village around 1am Thursday morning and went straight to the food hall. We were staving after only eating air plane food all day. The food hall is huge and very impressive with quite a good range of food. The rest of the village is really nice as well. We are all staying in apartments buildings. Australia has two buildings which are pretty central to all the services we need. We are sharing with the shooters who take up the rest of the level of our apartment. I was lucky enough to get a room by myself. I will try and upload some of the photos I have taken so far from the flag raising and opening ceremonies in the next couple of days. The training hall is great, plenty of bars and platforms and the competition venue is pretty nice as well.
We have training this afternoon from 5-7pm and then we will catch the men's 56kg which starts at 7pm. Weather has been pretty hot and humid but has cooled down in the last day, I have become the first super to sweat triple bodyweight.
I will be competing in the B session on the 19th which starts at 3:30pm Beijing time (5:30pm EST). So I am guessing it might be on channel 7 at 3am if we are lucky haha. Steiner has the highest entry total at 455 followed by Chigishev and Jeon whose totals are in the 440's. Scerbatihs and Salem both have entry totals at 421 which seem pretty low, so there might be a bit of foxing going on there. Well that’s about all I have to report for now, I will try and give an update every couple of days.
Damo
Damo In Beijing
The weather is muggy but the smog is keeping the temp down :)He is sharing an apartment with the male shooters. He has a room to himself others have 2 to a room … benefits to being the only male member of a team!!
The gear is a skin tight fitting. They also are getting the new Adidas Boots
I Like the bit in the marketing - the boots have 'Bird's Nest' single layer ClimaCool® mesh developed specifically for the Beijing Olympic Games.
http://www.dynamic-eleiko.com/products/shoesFR.html
Here is a photo from Damo's "Good Luck Damo" party
Brisbane Crossfit Games
Some Squad Members competed at the Brisbane Crossfit Games this Saturday
See Photos At
http://picasaweb.google.com/mwydall/XfitGames
Joseph and Damien competed in the Open section
and Angie and Miles competed in the Novice Section
Matt did 30 Power Snatches for time
and also the Open Strength workout
Matt won the Open Strength Workout
Angie won the female novice Strength workout
and Miles tied for first place in the Novice Burpee Challenge
The Open Met Con Workout was Nasty Girls
3 Rounds of
50 bodyweight squats
7 ring muscle ups
10 Reps of 60kg Power Cleans from hang
The Novice Met Con Workout was
3 Rounds of
30 Squats
20 Dumbell swings 10/8kg Men /Women
20/10 Pushups Men/Women
30 Situps
This was followed by the strength workout
Open
Bodyweight Snatch Squats - max reps
Novice
50% bodyweight dumbell Thrusters
And to finish the Burpee challenge
1 min rounds of Burpees with the number of Burpees in each round increasing
in each minute, ed round 1 has 1 burpee round 2 has 2 round 3 has 3 etc
until say you get to 16 burpees in a minute and you cannot complete
them all in 1 minute
Damien completed in 14.30?
and Joseph just could not do the last muscle up required to finish
Miles did the MetCon in 11.33?
and Angie 10.33?
On the Strength Miles did 15Kg Dumbells - 7 reps
and Angie did 15Kg Dumbells - 4 reps
Damien did no bodyweight snatch squats
Joseph did i think 2 or 3
and Matt i think 7 or 8
It was a great day!
