Sports Briefing | Winter Sports: Olympic Ticket Sales Postponed

OLYMPIC-BOUND INTRAWEST SENDING COPPER TO UTAH-BASED POWDR

By: robertweller

  By ROBERT Intrawest, one of the big players in North American ski industry, is selling Copper Mountain to Powdr Corp with the ski season already under way. The Vancouver, B.C.,-based company, which hosts the Olympics this year at Whistler-Blackcomb, said the sale will take place in the next few weeks, according to the Vail Daily. Copp...

10 days ago

WOMEN GET OLYMPIC WINGS CLIPPED

By: slydog

There were some pretty sad female faces outside the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver today. After 2 days worth of hearings it was decided that the women will not be allowed to participate as SKI JUMPERS in the forthcoming Olympic Games in February. I truly don't know whether to designate this a Political OR Sports story to be ...

14 days ago

Akshay Kumar selected as touch bearer for the 2010 winter olympic

By: kalex

The BollywoodBollywood superstar Akshay KumarAkshay Kumar nominated as touch bearer for the 2010 winter olympic games in canada.The actor been nominated as India's ambassador and the sole person from India for this prestigious offer. Only fourteen numbers of celebrities are being invited for the olympic torch relay in Cana

12 days ago

2014 Winter Olympic Stadium Seems Designed By Insectoid Aliens

By: dustgeer

Don’t get me wrong. I think the 2014 Winter Olympics Stadium in Sochi, Russia, will look absolutely spectacular at night. It’s just that its translucent skin makes me a little bit itchy, because  makes me think of Not that I’ve seen many insect nests, but that’s how I imagine them in my nightmares. The ...

5 days ago