The Road to Gold

July 25th

Tina Torres was drawn as South Korea for Our Olympics 2012.

July 27th

Tina and Emilie (Czech Republic) posted the a picture of themselves watching the Opening Ceremonies and drew their countries flag.

Then Tina's country was the 114th team to walk out during the opening ceremonies which won her 50 Bonus points in our first competition.

July 29

Tina posted an article about one of the truly amazing Olympiad.
"Im Dong Hyun, an Olympic archer, from South Korea, who is legally blind, broke his own record, scoring 699 out of 720 in the first round of competition."

August 4

Tina shared this amazing link with us. It highlights all the really great photos of the Games.

http://olympics.time.com/2012/07/28/olympic-highlights-in-photographs/

She also posted this photo of a true fan!

And a South Korean weightlifter with a dislocated shoulder.

If all those photos were not enough, she submitted 11 photos to our first annual photo competition.

August 6

Tina won 20 points after all of you voted her the Silver Medalist with her fabulous shoe photo!

August 9

On underdog day, Tina was paired with Uzbekistan.

As partners, they won 5 bonus points for Carli Llyod who won Gold in American Soccer when they defeated Japan.

August 10

Tina also won bonus points for Bianca Knight in Track and Field in the Women's 4 X 400m Relay for winning Gold.

Tina sent in a photo of an Olympic Wrestler from South Korea winning Gold.

She also sent in a great video of a South Korean fight song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLn-zqUYCgk

August 12

Tina won a random drawing for Sanya Richards Ross winning Gold and pulled a Double Bonus Card.

Tina was in the Gold medal position for 13 days of our competition. She not only had Gold medals but she participated in many events, voted in our competition and showed amazing Olympic Spirit. 

Congratulations Tina Torres on winning Gold!