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There are still 40,000 Olympic tickets left unsold, officials said Wednesday. The tickets include 12,000 for hockey and 10,000 for curling preliminary games. Dave Cobb, the Vancouver Organizing Committee’s executive vice-president of finance, said he...
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Jack Poole, the man who brought the 2010 Winter Olympic Games to Vancouver, has died. Canadian snowboarding gold medallist Ross Rebagliati seeks the federal Liberal nomination to run against Conservative cabinet minister Stockwell Day in the B.C. riding...
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The International Olympic Committee has agreed to assist the organisers of next year’s winter games in Vancouver if they incur a deficit caused by the recession’s impact on corporate sponsorships. The deal, which is unprecedented in Olympic history, follows...
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Winter Olympics in Vancouver are taking the mellow approach to suggestions that their planned Olympic torch looks like a marijuana cigarette. "We're not worried about it at all," Dave Cobb, the executive vice-president of the Vancouver Organising Committee...
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Construction goes on and the steel forest of cranes still towers over Vancouver...The Beijing and Vancouver Olympics may go down in history as illustrations of the differences in life before and after the global financial meltdown. The new economic realities...
Renee Smith-Valade said Tuesday. "We've only heard rumours in the media of that, so until such time as we receive anything in terms of formal notification, we don't have any comment." Ski-jumpers from Europe, the U.S. and a former Canadian champion are...
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