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The Paralympic Opening Ceremony will be held for the first time outside a stadium. This week, more than 4,000 athletes worldwide will parade through the iconic Avenue des Champs-Elysees to Place de la Concorde to the cheers of 60,000 spectators in the French capital. Screenland 5K runner Sonya Chapnick will not be able to witness this historical moment or the Paris Games through Sep. 8. Still, she will feel the power of community as she listens to the broadcast or runs in her neighborhood....
Not even the beneficiary of a long-awaited Olympic gold medal and her entourage can get full credentials into the Paris Games venues. "We will attend two track sessions. The tickets are sky high," LaShinda Demus, 41, said before she and her family left this week for the Olympics in the French capital. Demus of Culver City's Blair Hills neighborhood will stand before the Eiffel Tower on Aug. 9 to receive her overdue accolade as the 2012 London Olympic Games 400-meter hurdles champion. Two years...
Many Olympic athletes and representatives from diverse backgrounds and life experiences since the early 1900s have called Culver City their home in recognition of a community that embraces the 2024 Paris Olympic Games theme: “Worlds we share, where individuals from a variety of cultures and backgrounds reach new heights together...” Embodying that message of Olympic spirit and sportsmanship, Culver City High School alumnus Isaiah Jewett and a Botswana challenger helped each other to their fee...
From the 1932 LA Olympic Games, when Culver City's Helms Bakery served as the official bread provider for the Olympians, to the 1984 Olympics, when the LA Organizing Committee built its headquarters in Culver City, and now, in preparation for the 2028 LA Games, the Heart of Screenland has been a trailblazer in the modern history of the Olympic movement. Local families and officials have housed, trained, counseled, and sponsored Olympians for the past century, promoting the Games' ideals of blend...
The Culver Volleyball Club 16-year-olds coached by Tanner Siegal came out of the loser's bracket and avenged a loss to an Oregon team to win the 8th Annual Summer Soiree Volleyball Tournament in Anaheim, 25-19, 25-22. Six Culver City teams ranging in ages 12-18 entered, but by the end of the week the only local team that remained was 16-Tanner in the 64 team field. 16-Tanner was put in the losers bracket by Spitfire Volleyball Club from Oregon. Culver went on to win the rest of its games against...
Bending their bodies cautiously at ground balls, lofting outfield flies and ambling around the bases, some 100 senior softball players will begin the Culver City Senior Softball season Jan. 24, at Veterans Park. The quarter century- old Culver City Softball Association is a serious slow-pitch league played year round that provides an opportunity for its members to have fun playing a game they love and enjoy making new friends. Games are played Sundays at Veterans Park involving men over the age...
