Tweet When Anna Miscione attended Whispering Winds Summer Camp as an 8 year old, like all the others she rode horses, went swimming and zip-lining, and played golf. But when she shot a bow and arrow for the first time,…
Tweet While some athletes have been resting up before the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic Games, David Wagner has been busy defending two of his top titles in the sport of wheelchair tennis. The CVOTC resident athlete won the quad singles and doubles events at…
Tweet Wesley Williams placed his arms on the shoulders of Lex Gillette, a blind long jumper, to line him up on the runway, then guided him down the track to let him feel the landing pit. Gillette made a couple…
Tweet The 100-meter hurdles and the Internet just got a little sexier thanks to a racy pre-race warm-up routine by Australia’s Michelle Jenneke. If her goal was to get the blood pumping, it apparently worked (and for Jenneke, too), as…
Tweet About 90 of the athletes headed to London for the summer Olympics got their training in San Diego. The Olympic Training Center opened 17 years ago in San Diego’s second largest city: Chula Vista. It’s located one-mile north of…
Tweet As momentum continues to build for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista celebrated the grand opening of a new Team USA Shop with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony on Wednesday, June 13. The ceremony…
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Tweet Wandering aimlessly around the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, particularly on the soccer fields near the visitor’s center, is not advisable this week. You might have to dodge some arrows. The center is hosting the second round of…
Tweet Long time BMX racer and BMX Legend Todd Lyons, also known as “The Wild-man” surprised the crowd this weekend at The Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista. After crossing the finish line and during an interview, Lyons proposed to…
Tweet BMW, the Official Mobility Partner of the United States Olympic Committee announced the completion and hand-off of its first Olympic technology project, a velocity measurement system created in collaboration with sports scientists at the USOC and USA Track &…