Category Archives: Olympic Games

Pure Sailing Passion Multimedia Show

By JK | Published 31/03/2010

Multimedia Roadshow presented by Cornercard After almost 4 years travelling around the world driven by the passion for sailing and shooting the sailing most spectacular races and boats we present the best images in a multimedia show. During the show you will see the best photos from the last America’s cup, Volvo Ocean Race, Olympic [...]

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Il mondo della Vela in immagini

By JK | Published 19/02/2009

Serata foto giovedi 5 Marzo 2009 ore 19.00 Palazzo Congressi Muralto In collaborazione con la Federazione Ticinese della Vela e banca SYZ&CO organizziamo una serata foto con le più spettacolari immagini di vela internazionale come: -Maxi Catamarani -Monaco Classic Week -Barcelona World Race -Tour de France a la Voile -Giochi Olympici di Qingdao -Voile des [...]

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World Yacht Racing Forum

By JK | Published 14/12/2008

A milestone in the world yacht racing industry The first time in the history of sailing many of the key stakeholders of our industry found the way to Monaco to jointly discuss the future our industry. It never appeared to me clear that we are all part of big family and that we are all [...]

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my first swiss sailing calendar

By JK | Published 04/11/2008

Click on the image to find out more of the calendar When I came back from the Olympic games I found that it was quite a hard and intensive job to take images at the games but even harder is to choose 13 of the 9000 for a calendar. I don’t know how many times [...]

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Xie Xie China

By JK | Published 26/08/2008

Xie Xie in mandarino significa grazie e si pronuncia “cie cie”, hanno dato tutto quello che potevano per trasformare queste Olimpiadi in una bella festa. Non per parlarne della cerimonia di chiusura che no ho vissuto in prima persona. Sono sul viaggio di ritorno e mi sono fermato 2 giorni a Shanghai per vedere un [...]

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Ben Ainslie di qua Ben Ainslie di la….

By JK | Published 17/08/2008

Questo nome tra un pò no lo posso piu sentire, tutti ne parlano e tutto gira attorno questo personaggio, sembra che sia il nuovo Paul Elvström. Per il momento però è Torben e Paul che hanno 5 medaglie e non Ben. Oggi era in programma la medalrace degli Yngling e prima quella dei Finn, visto [...]

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A bit of Chinese life

By JK | Published 14/08/2008

Since I’m here I kind of missing a bit the real Aisa, for sure Qingdao is quite different that the places I visited recently such as Laos and Burma but even in Singapore I got the real Asia feeling, but not here. So yesterday I got up at 5.30 and went in the old town [...]

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Una giornata importante si annuncia qui a Qingdao

By JK | Published 11/08/2008

Sono le 5.30 di mattina. Il sole doverebbe apparire fra non molto, ma con tutto questo grigio dubito che si veda. Ogni tanto mi domando con tutti i bei posti al mondo siamo finiti qua a fare le Olimpiadi dove non si capisce se il grigio é smog oppure semplice nebbia. Va beh, il nostro [...]

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Sorprese cinesi: l’arrivo

By JK | Published 11/08/2008

Certo che il viaggio per Qingdao è iniziato con un po’ di pregiudizi. Forse anche per quel che ho letto e sentito in questi giorni sui media sulla situazione in Cina e sull’effetto che le Olimpiadi potrebbero avere sul governo. Al mio arrivo all’aeroporto di Sanghai, tra l’altro  in Business upgrade da mi fermano subito [...]

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New banner

By JK | Published 06/08/2008

During the games some of the world most popular sailing webpages/blogs will feature my images, for that we developped a new banner. The picture from the Swiss RSX surfer Richard Stauffacher has been taken this spring in Palma at the Princess Sofia where he won the medal race.

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Palma is over next step is China

By JK | Published 03/08/2008

The days here in Palma where special, Coppa el Rey is a amazing event with a high level competitors. Every time I’m sailing in this event I’m learning a lot this year was about Farr 40 sailing specially the mainsail trim on this boat. On our race course we also had the two VOR 70 [...]

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Count down for the games

By JK | Published 01/08/2008

Since a week I’m here in Palma sailing the coppa del rey on a Farr 40 . That all good but I’m the mainsail trimmer on this boat and this mainsail is so huge and hard to trim that my arms really start to hurt. The entire year I went almost once per week to [...]

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On the way to the olympic games

By JK | Published 19/02/2008

Sometimes there are days you get up and you think it will be another boring day in the office doing the paperwork as usual if I’m not out sailing and taking pictures. Today seemed to be such a day until I got the phone call from Swiss Olympic asking me if I still can go [...]

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