One of the things all of us at Mustang takes pride in is the innovative nature of our company. A few months back Canadian Olympian David Ford, qualified for the Beijing games and approached us to help design a life jacket for him. David finished fourth at the last Olympics in Athens and also has one gold (1999) and one silver (2003) at world championships. Our research team jumped at the opportunity to help him out.

This morning David finished 13th in the heats and qualified for the semi-finals. Here are some pictures of David practicing in China.

As I write this, the spectacular Beijing Olympic games opening ceremonies are underway. I made sure I was up early enough to catch some of the event on TV while I was getting ready for work this morning. I don’t know about you, but it’s always moving for me when my country enters the stadium at the games. Today was no different.

A few weeks back I got a call from our partners at the Canadian Red Cross asking if they could borrow some life jackets for a photo shoot with the Olympic Swim Team. How could I say no? I have uploaded the pictures to our Flickr page.

I’ll have another Olympic story to share with you in days to come. In the mean time, Go Canada!