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A Debit Card Debacle
We are beset by theft at each turn it seems. If the Bernie Madoff's of the world aren't fleecing us through shakey investment schemes, the local street riff-raff are pulling a "smash & grab" to fill their crack pipes. Governments seem hell-bent on...
Tags: debit card, fraud, millions, Vancouver, Olympics, organized crime, Canada, Bernard Madoff, allnews
Winter Sports Program for Tribal Youth
Olympian Suzy Chaffee continues to work for Native Communities and ski programs Find information at: http://enewschannels.com/2009/11/12/enc9478_194447.php
Tags: skiing, olympics, suzy chaffee, american indians, native americans, allnews
IOC Strips Men's 1500m Winner of Gold, 4 Others Disqualified
The International Olympic Committee stripped a gold medal from a Bahraini middle-distance runner Wednesday along with disqualifying four other Olympic athletes because of confirmed doping results at the 2008 Beijing Games. The Moroccan-born Ramzi was...
Tags: IOC, Olympic Games, Beijing, Rachid Ramzi, Nicolas Willis, Ramzi, Samuel Sanchez, International Olympic Committee, olympic committee, Alexander Kolobnev, Summer Olympics, Italian, Athanasia Tsoumeleka, Bahraini, Davide Rebellin, Olympics, gold medals, allnews, Stefan Schumacher, United Kingdom, Vanja Perisic, Sport, London, Ljungqvist, IOC Strips Men, Mehdi Baala, Fabian Cancellara
From Syrup Suckers to Bootlickers?
Talk show host and satirical comedian Stephen Colbert has been offered a rather "tongue-in-cheeky" job at the Olympic Games in Vancouver, Canada. The mayor of Richmond (head syrup-sucker) has offered Stephen the job of Ombudsman at the Olympic skating...
Former IOC executive criticises Chicago 2016 bid effort
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 2 days ago
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Chicago's bid leaders "totally missed the plot" ahead of the city's shock first-round elimination in voting to pick the 2016 Summer Games host, said a former International Olympic Committee (IOC) executive. Chicago's early exit showed it never connected...
Tags: Chicago, IOC, Michael Payne, U.S, Denmark, Copenhagen, United States Olympic Committee, Bids for the 2016 Summer Olympics, Winter Olympic bid scandal, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Olympics, allnews
OLYMPIC-BOUND INTRAWEST SENDING COPPER TO UTAH-BASED POWDR
By ROBERT WELLER 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,...
Tags: ski, intrawest, olympics, copper, vail, breckenridge, powdr, winter park, whistler
WADA official to meet BCCI on 'whereabout clause'
Wada :: India | 3 days ago
Credibility Wednesday meeting with the Indian cricket administrators. "In the last 18 months they've (ICC) got rules, they've done testing, they're doing out-of-competition testing so in that brief period of time they have done a heck of a lot...They have given a...
Tags: Wada, India, Politics, Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket in India, allnews, Olympics, World Anti-Doping Agency
Olympic ski jumping remains men-only zone
Vancouver :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Only one American ski jumper has ever won a gold medal in international competition. That was achieved earlier this year, at the world championships, by the athlete who holds the record for the longest jump on the hill that will hold the 2010 Olympics.
Tags: IOC, skiing jumping, Vancouver Organizing Committee, world championship, American, Canada, Vancouver, Sports rules and regulations, Ski jumping, Winter Olympics, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Olympic sports, Olympics, allnews
Ticket monopoly brings one man big profit
Salt Lake City :: UT :: USA | 4 days ago
Credibility It's a safe bet that few Americans headed north for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics have ever heard of a secretive New Jersey multimillionaire named Sead Dizdarevic...You can't buy an official ticket to the Games without ringing the cash register for...
Tags: Sead Dizdarevic, Jet Set Dizdarevic, Sarajevo Dizdarevic, USOC, Atlanta Organizing Committee, IOC, Billy Payne, Salt Lake City, John Krimsky, travel packager, Olympics, Olympic Games, United States Olympic Committee, Winter Olympics, William Porter Payne, Sport in London, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne
Native American Sports Foundation
In the May 2009 Indian Gaming magazine I read about the Native American Sports Foundation. This is an amazing idea. I attribute much of my personal success to sports, although, today I look like I have eaten too much frybread. Well, I probably have! ...
Tags: allnews, Indian country, health, gaming, tribes, olympics, Bloomington, Native Americans in the United States, Suzy Chaffee, Human Interest, Cuisine of the Midwestern United States, Native American Sports Foundation
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