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Some impressive numbers for NBC Olympics & Paralympics in Paris 2024 with '....more than 30 million people tuned in to NBC’s TV and streaming platforms to watch the games, and a record $1.2 billion in advertising revenue was generated.'

'The strategy used in Paris will serve as the roadmap for future Olympics — the Milan Winter Olympics in 2026 and Los Angeles Summer Games in 2028 — as well as other live sports aired on NBC’s TV networks and Peacock, executives said'

When thinking of NBC changing the way it broadcasts the Olympics, I get the visual of the Titanic full steam ahead, while trying to weave its way through the beautiful Suisse mountain villages. But good on them. Better late than never. It is good for sport and great for the Olympic Games, with the biggest winners being the sports loving public being able to watch what they want, when they want, on any device they want.

A great read.

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NBC ripped up its Olympics playbook for 2024 — so far, the new strategy paid off NBCUniversal's bet on the Olympics paid off in Paris this summer, for the company as a whole, but also its streaming platform Peacock.

A great piece on OBS and Yiannis Exarchos, CEO, illustrating the scope of broadcasting the Olympics.

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Yiannis Exarchos: Bringing the Games to our screens | eKathimerini.com Yiannis Exarchos, CEO of Olympic Broadcasting Services, ensures – along with his thousands of associates – that the magic of each event reaches our screens and speakers.

I am delighted to present Episode 1 of Masterclass with John Alexander on Mental Rehearsal in Sport.

This is the first of a series of five episodes that presents practical examples of how John prepares mentally for competing on the world stage, including detailed examples of his mental rehearsal techniques. In this episode, he explains where and how he mentally practices and rehearses.

“One has to rehearse many many times in one’s mind, so I do it in the environment I am going to be competing in.”

John Alexander
John Alexander is a prolific sailor who has competed extensively worldwide for over 45 years. From Dinghy, J24, Etchell, and Finns to tall ships, large racing boats, and leading Americas Cup campaigns, he has too many results to list.

Brought up in England, he learnt to sail as a 16-year-old on a tall ship in a race between England and America. He continued sailing tall ship passages every summer while also becoming a sailing instructor in Dinghy on Ullswater in the Lakes District of Cumbria, England.

He has participated in multiple world championships in J24 and Etchell (with Australian Richard Coxon) and many European championships in the Finn and offshore boats.

He participated in the Fastnet and Channel races alongside prominent figures such as Sir Morris Lang, a UK construction giant and Admiral of the Royal Yacht Squadron and Royal Ocean Racing Club, on the yacht 'Bathsheba'. He also sailed with Sir Owen Aisher on the yacht 'Yeoman XIX', which Prince Philip and his daughter Anne, Princess Royal sailed.

After moving to Australia in the 1980s to follow a corporate career with Honeywell and Boral, he developed a relationship with Thorry Gunnersen, skippering the one-off John Dory 42 sloop ‘Tilting at Windmills’ racing and cruising all over the world. They had strong results in races such as the Sydney to Hobart, the Fastnet, the Rolex Middle Sea, Voile de St-Tropez and the Tonnere de Breskens Royal Ocean Racing Club offshore series.

With John at the helm, ‘Tilting at Windmills’ was awarded the Romola Cup by the Royal Cruising Club for the most outstanding cruise in 2009, the first Australian yacht to do so, following a cruise into the Arctic Circle earlier that year.

He was helmsman for Piet Vroon, a Dutch shipping magnate, with ‘Tonnere de Breskens’. Vroon was the most prolific offshore sailor in the world, participating in more Fastnet and Admirals Cup races than any other owner. His custom Ker 46, which was under John’s recommendation, was awarded the Royal Ocean Racing Club (RORC) 2010 Yacht of the Year and was twice Overall winner of the RORC Season Championship (three times in class) and twice winner of the UK IRC National Championships from two attempts.

John established an engineering company that supplied products to the yachting industry and became engaged with larger boats, including project managing the construction of some significant racing boats. He also formed a close relationship with renowned yacht designer Jason Ker.

In the mid-2000s, John was the Design Coordinator and overall Project Manager of the South African Americas Cup team, ‘Shosholoza’, in Valencia 2007.

John also had his own 50’ racing yacht in Australia, Scoundrel, which won the Hamilton Island Race week. He also built a Couta boat, also called Scoundrel, with his father in Flinders, Victoria.

In recent years, he has restricted his sailing to the Finn Class, Tilting at Windmills, and he plans to compete in Dragon.

When we conducted this interview in his home on the Huon River, one hour south of Hobart, Tasmania, John was preparing to fly for Europe the next day to compete and “get a place” in the Grand Grand Master division (60-69 years) of the Finn World Masters in Puntala, Italy.

Episodes 2-5 will follow over the next two weeks on this channel.

John Alexander Episode 1 (10:13 min)
John Alexander Episode 2 (11:0 min)
John Alexander Episode 3 (8:30 min)
John Alexander Episode 4 (8:08 min)
John Alexander Episode 5 (9:14 min)

Episodes 2-5 to follow on this channel

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Ep 2: Masterclass with John Alexander 'Mental Rehearsal in Sport' Masterclass with John Alexander 'Mental Rehearsal in Sport'Episode 2: Specific techniques John and his coaches would use in his pre-race mental preparation a...

House, Tasmania.

Sydney city looking New Yorkish (well, almost).

For those of us who know and have worked with Lucy Nicholson, her appointment to the position of Director of Photography for the Associated Press is important and fabulous news. Leading the AP's global photographic coverage is the most important position in photography worldwide. It is also wonderful to see the first female to hold the position in the AP's 178 years of operation.

You can see Lucy in action in our film 'Oneshot, Photographing the Olympic Games.'

ONE SHOT: PHOTOGRAPHING THE OLYMPIC GAMES Awarded the prestigious Candido Cannavo Award at the Milan Sport Film Festival 2018.Built around the 100m men’s final in Rio de Janeiro, ONE SHOT explores th...

Lucy Nicholson named AP director of photography. Fabulous news.

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AP Definitive Source | Lucy Nicholson named AP director of photography Executive Editor Julie Pace and Vice President and Head of Global News Production Derl McCrudden announced on Thursday a key appointment: Lucy Nicholson will join AP as its new director of photography.

Team Australia won the final of the Sydney SailGP after a fabulous day of racing and a final with Denmark and New Zealand the went to the wire.

SailGP is back in Sydney Harbour. A few images from Race Day 1 of the KPMG Australia Sail Grand Prix.
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Marsha Droller, Tahiti local and legendary charger at this amazing break, talks about the issues relating to the judging tower controversy for the Olympics.

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Matahi Drollet's take on the Olympic Tower at TEAHUPOO Reef A New Earth Project ambassador Matahi Drollet has a front row seat to the Olympic tower debacle surrounding the famed TEAHUPOO reef.His sister and the locals...