Archives Tagged as : Olympics

26 July 2012 Posted by Gaetano Massara

CEE@Olympics – What’s Your Drive?

Mine is to get through the finish line, to get over tiredness and doubt to win. As an active athlete, an “Ironman” I know how much work lies behind every stroke you take and every mile you make. At the Olympics, you pay attention to athletic performance. But for once, please look further and experience an amazing glimpse at engineering perfection. It makes me proud that thousands of GE engineers work across the globe on making technology better every day. It is the result of their imagination and work that GE has been able to provide some of the technologies for the Olympics. Please be amazed when you watch the Games as the best infrastructure technologies of our century secure the conditions athletes can compete in.

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24 July 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

CEE@Olympics – Bike to London

Most people will travel by plane or car to see the London Olympics, but there are sport-enthusiasts who like challenges:  a small team of Hungarian kids decided to go by bicycle. Read more at the next piece of our series about the CEE region and the Olympics which GE is one of the 11 Worldwide Partners of.

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23 July 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

CEE@Olympics – Polish Success Story – Four Golds in Atlanta

Guest post by Michał Pol, journalists of Gazeta Wyborcza daily

As a reporter working for “Gazeta Wyborcza” I had the unique opportunity to witness many touching moments of glory of Polish sportsmen. For example, I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes Adam Małysz’s first Four Hills Tournament triumph at the Innsbruck Hill, which spurred the explosion of the so-called “Małyszomania” social phenomenon. I was the one Adam told about the already iconic “bun and banana” meals. However, all these events were totally eclipsed by the emotions I felt during the first days of the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. And I do not mean only the fact that this was the very first Olympic Games I had an opportunity to watch, or that it was the 100^th anniversary of the first Modern Era Olympics held in Athens.

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18 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

CEE@Olympics – Brave, Bright and Brilliant

Czech high school student Stanislav Fořt is one of the world’s great Olympians, beating the best of the best at the last two Olympiads. Never seen him on TV? That’s because Stanislav wasn’t there in Athens or Beijing, but competed in the yearly International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics. Next piece of our series about the CEE region’s participation in international competitions, including the Olympics of which GE is one of the 11 Worldwide Partners.

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30 May 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

CEE@Olympics – Modern Light for the Tower Bridge

Lighting engineers from CEE have played a major role in contributing to the 2012 Olympics to become the first ever “sustainable Games.”  Tonight a new decorative lighting will be inaugurated by thousands at the river banks and through BBC by millions.  Read more at the next piece of our series about the CEE region and the Olympics which GE is one of the 11 Worldwide Partners of. A recent roundtable in Budapest co-hosted by the President of the Hungarian Olympic Committee and GE, one of the key infrastructural suppliers of the Games, showcased some of GE’s Olympics related projects with a link to CEE.

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23 March 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

CEE@Olympics – Faster, Stronger, Higher

Greece, Greece, Greece has been the headline lately. Let’s see the other side of the coin and take a look at what the world learned from the Greeks.  From ancient times to modern days, people have always honored and praised the victorious athletes in the Olympic Games for their courage to compete, their determination to be  the best and their constant strive to achieve great results. Then and now – part one of our series about the CEE region and the London Games of which GE is one of the 11 Olympic Worldwide Partners.

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31 January 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

From Stadium to Streets

Guest post by Cristian Colteanu, GE President & CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova and Lesław Kuzaj, GE CEO for Central Europe

Participation and results at the Olympics have been high on the agenda of the countries in our region since modern Olympics. We all know how many gold medals our fellow athletes won last time and we talk about how many our countries will win in London. But we rarely think about what the Olympic Games bring to the table when it comes to testing the 21st century approach to cities.

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17 November 2011 Posted by GE for CEE

Sustainable Games of Technology

253 days prior to what London 2012 organizers claim to be the greenest-ever Olympic and Paralympic Games, we highlight the sustainable solutions that GE will be providing to support the host city and the Games. GE’s software has improved the efficiency and reliability of the smart grid serving East London, where the Olympic Park is being built, while other businesses within GE have provided advanced energy systems, high-tech lighting solutions, uninterruptible power supplies, state-of-the-art healthcare equipment and electric car charging points.

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