Sort of OT: Tanya Blanco
Winston Tan
sending up the Sydney Olympic bid. Some of you may remember they had this
girl giving one of the major speeches for the bid called Tanya Blanco.
Because she was oh just so cute and of primary school age some have said
she went pretty far in Sydney getting the games. Now, I haven't heard
anything about her since the bid back all those years ago. Anyone know
where she is now? And why isn't she playing a more active involvement in
the Games? On TLS they asked us to imagine how big her gestures will be by
the year 2000 - appearances in TV Week, Woman's Day and Penthouse in her
declining years.
Winston Tan
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Bradley Torr
Winston Tan <wt...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
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> Watched one of the old Late Show videos the other day when they were
> sending up the Sydney Olympic bid. Some of you may remember they had this
> girl giving one of the major speeches for the bid called Tanya Blanco.
> Because she was oh just so cute and of primary school age some have said
> she went pretty far in Sydney getting the games. Now, I haven't heard
> anything about her since the bid back all those years ago. Anyone know
> where she is now? And why isn't she playing a more active involvement in
> the Games? On TLS they asked us to imagine how big her gestures will be
by
> the year 2000 - appearances in TV Week, Woman's Day and Penthouse in her
> declining years.
Here name was Tania Blencowe IIRC, she was 11 at the time which would make
her 16 or 17 now, and she was from a primary school in Menai (in Sutherland
Shire, about 30km / 20 miles south of Sydney). Whether she's still in that
neck of the woods, I don't know, but she'd be busy studying for her HSC
now. :-)
Regards,
Bradley.
Susannah Tiller
>
> Here name was Tania Blencowe IIRC, she was 11 at the time which would make
> her 16 or 17 now, and she was from a primary school in Menai (in Sutherland
> Shire, about 30km / 20 miles south of Sydney). Whether she's still in that
> neck of the woods, I don't know, but she'd be busy studying for her HSC
> now. :-)
>
back, where she said she'd applied to be a volunteer at te games. Didn't
say what else she was up to, though...
Regards,
Susannah
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Dan
try this link
http://thegames.seven.com.au/text/981129/tanya.asp
Winston Tan <wt...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Watched one of the old Late Show videos the other day when they were
> sending up the Sydney Olympic bid. Some of you may remember they had this
> girl giving one of the major speeches for the bid called Tanya Blanco.
> Because she was oh just so cute and of primary school age some have said
> she went pretty far in Sydney getting the games. Now, I haven't heard
> anything about her since the bid back all those years ago. Anyone know
> where she is now? And why isn't she playing a more active involvement in
> the Games? On TLS they asked us to imagine how big her gestures will be by
> the year 2000 - appearances in TV Week, Woman's Day and Penthouse in her
> declining years.
>
greg h
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>Winston Tan <wt...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
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>> Watched one of the old Late Show videos the other day when they were
>> sending up the Sydney Olympic bid. Some of you may remember they had this
>> girl giving one of the major speeches for the bid called Tanya Blanco.
>> Because she was oh just so cute and of primary school age some have said
>> she went pretty far in Sydney getting the games. Now, I haven't heard
>> anything about her since the bid back all those years ago. Anyone know
>> where she is now? And why isn't she playing a more active involvement in
>> the Games? On TLS they asked us to imagine how big her gestures will be
>by
>> the year 2000 - appearances in TV Week, Woman's Day and Penthouse in her
>> declining years.
>
>Here name was Tania Blencowe IIRC, she was 11 at the time which would make
>her 16 or 17 now, and she was from a primary school in Menai (in Sutherland
>Shire, about 30km / 20 miles south of Sydney). Whether she's still in that
>neck of the woods, I don't know, but she'd be busy studying for her HSC
>now. :-)
>
She still lives in the area. Her family home was destroyed during the
bushfires and she lost all her souvenirs and memrabilia from her
represenations at the Olympics presentaton
Frere
>Winston Tan <wt...@ozemail.com.au> wrote in article
><01bec025$385a0860$c57f...@dialup.ozemail.com.au>...
>> Watched one of the old Late Show videos the other day when they were
>> sending up the Sydney Olympic bid. Some of you may remember they had this
>> girl giving one of the major speeches for the bid called Tanya Blanco.
>> Because she was oh just so cute and of primary school age some have said
>> she went pretty far in Sydney getting the games. Now, I haven't heard
>> anything about her since the bid back all those years ago. Anyone know
>> where she is now? And why isn't she playing a more active involvement in
>> the Games? On TLS they asked us to imagine how big her gestures will be
>by
>> the year 2000 - appearances in TV Week, Woman's Day and Penthouse in her
>> declining years.
>Here name was Tania Blencowe IIRC, she was 11 at the time which would make
>her 16 or 17 now, and she was from a primary school in Menai (in Sutherland
>Shire, about 30km / 20 miles south of Sydney). Whether she's still in that
>neck of the woods, I don't know, but she'd be busy studying for her HSC
>now. :-)
About 12 months after the successful bid, her home was destroyed in the Sydney
bushfires taking with it all the Olympic memorabilia (sp?) she had collected
during the bid process. She was obviously devastated. Since then - with
one major exception - she has been out of the public eye.
Recently she has been on TV commenting on the fall from grace of the IOC and
IIRC she was trying to distance herself from the scandal associated with the
Sydney bid. She is obviously a lot taller and somewhat slimmer than I
remember (not that she was actually overweight then).
She would be 17. Sydney won the games 6 years ago.