Welcome to The World Competes!
Hello, and welcome to The World Competes! This blog is dedicated to tracking Olympic news, results, and more.
My internet name is Brooke Lorren; I’ve been a fan of the Olympics since somewhere around the 1980s… pretty much for most of my life. Although I’m not much of an athlete myself, the Olympics inspire me to get out and run, do crunches, and become more athletic. I have written several different pages on the Olympics; primarily on Squidoo. You can visit my “lensography” to see many of the pages that I have written. Please note: 100% of the profits from that page goes to the nonprofit group Hope for Haiti.
I’ve never actually been able to go to an Olympics, but I did go to college at USC, where many of the 1984 Summer Olympics events were held, and I have spent several hours in the Olympic pool there. I was able to carry the American Flag during the torch relay kickoff for the 1996 Atlanta games; the torch relay kickoff was held in Los Angeles and I just happened to be in the right place to volunteer at the time. I also was able to visit the site of the 2000 Sydney Olympics while it was still under construction, and I was able to run around the track that the athletes would later compete on.
Other than that, I’m an Olympic fan, like many other people are. I prefer the individual Olympic sports to the team sports. I’m fairly bummed that my finances didn’t allow me to visit the 2010 Games in Vancouver, especially considering that I have family that live nearby. My goal is to get a chance to see the 2016 games in Rio de Janiero… while that sounds like it could be expensive, my husband starts law school this fall, and I’m guessing that a lawyer with three years of experience will be able to afford the trip. Outside of the Olympics, I don’t watch too many sports.
Other than being an Olympics fan, I’m a homeschool teacher, content producer, and gymnastics mom. I’m hoping that this blog will be useful to you.
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