A Day with Paige McPherson and Team USA Taekwondo – London 2012 Olympic Games (VIDEO)

The USA’s Taekwondo team at the London 2012 Olympic Games are hoping to have packed a punch with Pan American Games silver medallist Paige McPherson on their side. Crane.tv meets McPerson and sparring partner Nir Moriah at their East London training grounds to see the team in action and hear about about how their preparation has been driven by themes from Sun Tzu’s The Art of War.

Good Luck to Paige for tomorrow’s fight!

www.teamusa.org/USA-Taekwondo.aspx

Legendary Athlete Carl Lewis & Marin Lotti on Olympic Games Sportswear Technology at Nike

The Olympic Games and innovative sportswear technology go hand-in-hand, and London 2012 has seen brands like Nike showcasing their most forward-thinking designs. Crane.tv met up with Nike’s Global Design Director for the Olympics Marin Lotti, and athletic legend Carl Lewis to hear about the latest innovations coming out of the Nike research lab and how these elite technologies are being translated into every-day sportswear for the general public.
http://nikeinc.com/

Men’s Basketball Practice – Team USA

Our team at the Team USA basketball practice with Kobe Bryant, Anthony Davis, LeBron James and many more. Video coming soon – sign up to our newsletter on www.crane.tv or follow us on facebook and twitter @cranetv

Team GB’s Golden day – Rowing duo Helen Glover & Heather Stanning and Cyclist Bradley Wiggins

Britain scored Gold twice today as Bradley Wiggins went for his seventh Olympic medal in the men’s time trial and Rowing duo Helen Glover and Heather Stanning achieved a historic win in the Women’s Rowing Pair finals.

Read full stories here:
http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2012/08/uk-secures-first-2012-gold-medals-in-rowing-cycling/

Photos courtesy of AP, BBC AMERICA and The Daily Telegraph.

Learn the half-time entertainment moves for the Olympic Games with Aicha McKenzie

Do you have what it takes to entertain the crowd at the London 2012 Olympic Games? Learn the moves for the show at the women’s beach volleyball finals with Crane.tv journalist Seyna.

Olympic Fencing | Tim Morehouse Team USA | London 2012

Tim Morehouse is a force to be reckoned with in the fencing world,
having won a silver medal in the men’s sabre at the 2008 Beijing
Olympics and is competing in the 2012 London Olympics. A New York City
native, graduate of Brandeis University, founder of the non-profit
Fencing-in-the-Schools Foundation and author of American Fencer:
Modern Lessons from an Ancient Sport, Morehouse also taught U.S.
President Barack Obama how to fence on the White House lawn in 2009.
Here, Crane.tv catches up with the talented athlete at the University
of East London (UEL) where the all-American Olympians are training. He
tells us about the history of fencing, not being a “typical Olympian
prodigy” and the different schools of the beautiful sport: Italian, French, Russian and American.
www.timmorehouse.com

Aicha McKenzie | Olympic Games 2012

“Aicha McKenzie, choreographer and former dancer for the likes of
Madonna, Rihanna and Kanye West is the creative director for the half
time entertanment at the Olympic Games 2012, creating routines with
over 400 dancers that will be viewed during the beach volleyball,
tennis and artistic gymnastics among others. Crane.tv visits McKenzie
at her West London studio to find out how much preparation goes into
the routines and try it out for ourselves.”