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All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter
Topic Started: Jan 16 2014, 01:36 AM (41 Views)
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- All Blacks flyhalf Dan Carter has been voted be the world rugby player of the year this season but New Zealand rugby experts dont share that view. Days after receiving the International Rugby Boards award, Carter has failed to make the shortlist for the New Zealand equivalent, the Kel Tremain Memorial trophy. Instead, a four-man selection panel that includes former All Blacks Brent Anderson, Graham Mourie and Andy Leslie have nominated Carters All Blacks teammates Richie McCaw, Keiran Read and Conrad Smith for the prize. Carter was restricted by injuries for much of the 2012 season and played in only nine of New Zealands 14 tests. McCaw, New Zealands captain and its most-capped player, played in 13 of those tests and is favoured to win the national award. New Orleans Saints Customized jersey . 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The Wings also picked up transition players Jordan Hall, Joel White, Rob Campbell and a second-round pick in the 2014 draft in the deal. "This trade allows us the opportunity to get the most recognizable player in the sport to join our team," Wings president Michael French said Friday in a release.LONDON - The 2012 London Olympics will open with a glimpse of the British countryside, past and present - from cows and sheep to meadow and mosh pit. Danny Boyle, the artistic director for the games July 27 opening ceremony, on Tuesday unveiled a model of the set, which will transform the Olympic Stadium in gritty, urban east London into a rural idyll.COWS AND SHEEPThe Olympic set will include grass and fields, sheep, cows and horses, a cricket match, picnicking families and a hill modeled on Glastonbury Tor, a landmark in southwest England.Below the hill spectators will fill a mosh pit, evoking the raucous Glastonbury rock festival and other rural music events that are a major summer motif in Britain. At the other end of the stadium is a more genteel standing-room-only area - one wag dubbed it the "posh pit" - that is meant to evoke the annual classical music fixture the Last Night of the Proms.There are even real clouds that Boyle says can produce real rain - in case the British weather fails to comply.The meadow is surrounded by a circular parade ground for the 10,500 athletes taking part in the games. Boyle has nicknamed it the M25, after the often-clogged commuter highway that rings London.BACK TO CHILDHOOD IDEALSBoyle, the filmmaker behind "Trainspotting" and the Academy Award-winning "Slumdog Millionaire," said the set for the opening ceremony will evoke the "green and pleasant land" of William Blakes poem "Jerusalem," an emblem of Englishness.He said the opening ceremony would be a "reflection of part of our heritage," but would also depict Britains present and look to the future. The set is designed to evoke the site where the stadium stands: once countryside, then industrial land, bombed during World War II and now being regenerated as a park.Boyle unveiled the model to reporters at 3 Mills Studios, near the Olympic Park, where craftspeople are working to create almost 3,000 props and 23,000 costumes for the Olympic and Paralympic opening and closing ceremonies.Boyle said even though most Britons now live in cities, "its in our brains as part of ourselves, this ideal. Its liike a childhood ideal, in a way.dddddddddddd"RING THE BELLThe opening ceremony will begin with the tolling of a 27-ton bell forged at Londons 442-year-old Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which made Londons Big Ben and Philadelphias Liberty Bell.The bell is inscribed with a line from William Shakespeares play "The Tempest" - one of Boyles main inspirations for the ceremony - in which Caliban says: "Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises.""Its a wonderful thing that well be able to open our games with a symbol of peace, the ringing of a bell," Boyle said. "You will feel different when youre in there and you hear it ringing."A FEW PEOPLE WILL BE WATCHINGSome 10,000 volunteers have begun rehearsing for the opening ceremony, which will be held in front of 60,000 spectators inside the stadium and a television audience estimated at 1 billion.Boyle acknowledged the challenges of staging a large-scale show for live TV - not least capturing the British sense of humour."You cant do a show about Britain, really, if you dont try to reflect our sense of humour," he said. "Thats hard to do in stadium shows. They are the enemy of humour."But he said he hoped to create "a sense of inclusiveness" - and keep the running time to three hours. The ceremony starts at 9 p.m., and the International Olympic Committee says it must be over by midnight so athletes can get to bed on time.CEREMONY SECRETS THAT HAVE ALREADY SPILLEDBoyle hopes to keep many details of the ceremony secret, although some have already trickled out. Former Beatle Paul McCartney has revealed he will be the closing act and Boyle has said there will be a sequence celebrating the countrys National Health Service.A pre-recorded segment has been filmed inside Buckingham Palace, reportedly involving Queen Elizabeth II - who as British head of state will officially open the games - and Daniel Craigs James Bond.Boyle said the ceremonys creators had an impossible task: To offer a vision of Britain with something for everyone."Were bound to fail," he said. "But were going to try very hard not to."
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