My own personal #roadtosochi

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Hey Newschoolers,

Some of you may know me from the many stories, photos and edits I've posted on this website over the past decade. In particular I've always enjoyed reporting on ski events, and of course writing for the unique Newschoolers audience.

Last year Doug Bishop and Jason Mousseau decided to reward the top long-form journalist on the site with a feature article in the new NS Yearbook (if you haven't picked one up yet, you really should), as well as another big assignment: covering the latest three-ring circus in skiing for the Newschoolers community.

According to the robots that analyze Newschoolers' numbers, that journalist was me, so—today I'm hopping on a plane for Sochi.

While there I hope to give you some reports that venture beyond the clichés currently on display in much of the coverage of these Games. Hopefully I can pull it off. I don't shoot guy-in-the-sky photos and I know the difference between a dub cork 9 and a dub cork 12. But I could use your help in a big way, by telling me what you'd like to see out of Newschoolers Olympic coverage.

What do you want to see from Sochi? Detailed competition recaps? Powder reports from Krasnaya Polyana? A Hunter S. Thompson inspired, drug-addled rampage through the Olympic Village? Here's your chance. Tell me what you want to know about what's going down in Sochi, and I'll do my best to find out for you.

Additionally, Newschoolers in Sochi, hit me up! It'd be great to meet up and get your perspectives. And I might sleep on your couch.

Thanks again to Mr.Bishop, Mousseau and the Newschoolers team for this awesome opportunity!

 
Good luck man! From what i've read thus far from journalists covering the Sochi experience there seems to be an overwhelming focus on all the negative shit that's happening. Maybe you could change that and focus on all the really great stuff that is happening at freeskiing's introduction to the world's biggest sporting venue.

And above all else we NEED a picture of E-DOLLO with the Jamaican bobsledders!

 
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Since we all know how many different opinions their is on skiing being in the olympics within our own community and knowing that we won't ever reach consensus about it, I think it would be really interesting to see what other athletes, the olympic audience and people not really used to see this, thinks. Because this is really "the big thing" with skiing in the Olympics right? Showing the world whats possible on a pair of skis. And since you understand skiing, it has the potential of being the most diverse and interesting coverage on competitive skiing this far. At least in my mind.

I don't believe in detailed comp coverage, you don't want to read about tricks and results, if you can't see it, it's only facts, and you really got no use of facts about results. You want to see Dollo switch butter dub those JOI sized jumps, not read about it, because we all know it's coming.

Good luck!
 
I want you to interview people who have no idea what freeskiing and slopestyle is and ask there opinion on it.

Also it would be cool to talk to the locals and see what they think about the olympics and if it is helping or hurting them.
 
In addition to te actual Olympic games coverage it would be cool to see what the athletes do in their off time
 
sex.

on a related note, you should poke holes in all the free condoms they give out in the athletes village.
 
I want to know how bad the hotel rooms actually are. Are they as bad as reporters say? I also want to see the young guys, Aaron and Torin, represented a lot

 
i want to know the opinion of other olympian towards us (free skiers pipe and slope), like what do they think when they see henrik roll into the cafeteria
 
I don't know how your Russian is, but how about the vibe of the local people (if there are any).

Also, what athletes do in their down time. Are there sponsored parties like the X-Games/any other big event?
 
1. I'd like an in depth analysis of the slope and pipe courses, how it looks to you, how it feels to the athletes, any odd hiccups in the courses, thoughts about potential injury etc.

2. I'd like to know if the "vibe" for this competition is any different. do with that what you will

3. I'd like to know more about the mountain Rosa Khotur, and if it really is the pow mecca Powder claimed it is.

4. How rachet the party scene is.

Thanks man!
 
who are the judges, and where do they come from. i honestly struggled to find answers on doodle since it was flooded with shaun white news
 
interviews of athletes, tours of daily life around the village, behind the scens stuff that outsider dont see. would love to know what the athlete feel about the entire situation. for example travel problems, how feel about the terrorists threats, stuff like that.
 
How people like Henrik feel being more or less ignored by media coverage because of their demeanor or personal appearance, especially as a leading athlete..

Other such cover ups, fudges or things that make you think twice about the whole thing, maybe even shed negative light on the olympics? I want the truth man, the truth.

 
Content man. Just tons of skiing content. Like nonstop articles and updates. I don't want to stop reading for the next two weeks.
 
What is REALLY cool is this is the first live deployment into a major event of one of our journalists that 'made it' out of the system last year. Ethan is definitely old guard Newschoolers, but he revamped his game and worked his way back up to the top for this gig.

Lesson to those of you out there trying to make it in the journalism world. Take part in what we're doing!

Now ethan... start hitting the ether and getting weird already.
 
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