2010 Vancouver Winter Olympian Emily Cook is on the cover of the New York Times Magazine!
What a breathtaking picture! Truly amazing!
You can follow Emily’s journey at the Olympics via her twitter at www.twitter.com/emilycook and I’ll also be twittering for the US Olympic Committee and AT&T as well at www.twitter.com/timmorehouse
The Vancouver Olympics are 3 days away!
Apparently this modeling thing has some legs…
Never in my life, especially while working at Teach For America teaching 7th grade Social Studies did I think I’d be a Wilhelmina Model doing photo shoots for fashion brands and magazines, but since the Beijing Olympics as we’ve tried to promote fencing it seems like the fashion world has really been a great ally. Who knew?
The past two weeks we’ve been doing a number of exciting shoots and I guess we’ll see how far this will go! The NY Post’s Page 6. The Huffington Post and Vanity Fair can’t be wrong, right? They’ll all discussed our modeling adventures…
I love the idea of promoting fencing in a similar manner to what Nacho Figueras the Polo player has done, but to even a greater level since our sport is much more accessible…(we don’t need horses and fields to play!)
Check out this article on him from the New York Times on him:”Putting Glamour on Horseback“. The gist, he’s a Polo player, Ralph Lauren model and does an amazing job promoting his sport and finding it a unique niche for sponsors.
My vision for fencing’s niche in our modern-day society is that it can be both unique social gathering and sporting event for adults and a learning tool and participation sport for children.
It’s an expanded vision built on what Nacho has done with Polo matches in the Hamptons except we can do these in the major cities like NYC and LA and we also can teach tons of children to do it in schools and clubs.
The sport would be on display in an elegant manner both in regards to where its taking place and how the fencers and crowd interact and dress. Think old school chivalry and honor meets modern-day fashion and technology. It would be a re-branded modern version involving fencing’s spectacular history as a sport of Kings and Nobility with its new benefits as a safe (no one gets stabbed anymore!) sport of strategy and athleticism for people to do to be healthy at all ages.
The Italian Fencing Association is doing this the best right now. See my “Fencing Done Right…” article for some pictures of what fencing could be.
Plus, wouldn’t it be cool to have people settling their differences again with a duel?
Stay tuned!
