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The thrill of the Olympic bubble, the agony when the Games end
Athens :: Greece | 3 days ago
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T hey roam the globe, bouncing from city to city, chasing their next Olympic fix...Olympic Gypsies, as they're sometimes called - hired for their experience and institutional knowledge of how to run a successful Games. Of the 1,700 employees at the Vancouver...
Tags: Vancouver Organizing Committee, Mr. Alvarsson, Ms. White, Mr. Kettlitz, Canada, Greece, Athens
IOC told to get hip with the digital revolution
Copenhagen :: Denmark | 14 days ago
Credibility Tune in now or find young people tuning you out as they look for other places to get their information, one of the most powerful people in media told the Olympic movement Monday. Martin Sorrell, the chief executive of WPP Group, one of the world's largest...
Tags: IOC, Martin Sorrell, olympic movement, video streams, Vancouver Organizing Committee, CTV, Alon Marcovici, Denmark, Copenhagen
40,000 Vancouver Olympic tickets up for grabs
Vancouver :: Canada | 15 days ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Vancouver Organizing Committee, New Vancouver, Vancouver Organising Committee, olympic ticket, U.S. Pacific Northwest, winter olympic, Rusty Goepel, organizers committee, Jack Poole, Canada, Vancouver, Winter Olympics, Ticket resale, Tickets, Ticket, allnews, Business Finance, Leo Obstbaum, Winter Olympic Games, Poole, Human Interest, E ticket, StubHub, Overbooking, CoSport
Olympic ski jumping remains men-only zone
Vancouver :: Canada | 17 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
Olympic tickets go quickly as computer system back up
Vancouver :: Canada | 20 days ago
Credibility Nov. 7 ran into a computer glitch that led to hundreds of thousands of frustrated fans unable to log into the official ticketing website at the appointed hour. The computer glitch that caused the problem a week ago, Denton explained, was a change in...
Tags: ski jumper, B.C. Court of Appeal, B.C. Ambulance Service, winter olympic, olympic ticketing, female ski, ski jumping, Vancouver Organizing Committee, خليج فارس, Canada, Vancouver, Tickets, Winter Olympics, Ticket, allnews, Sikh, Guru Nanak Dev, Revolutionaries, Sikh gurus, Disaster Accident, Lindsey Van, Winter Olympic Games, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Law Crime, International Olympic Committee, flu pandemic, Swine influenza, Influenza vaccine, Pandemics, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Epidemics, Health Medical Pharma
Village gets a new reputation as it moves from problems to praise
Vancouver :: Canada | 29 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Thursday, Nov. 05, 2009 2:24AM EST T here were no dancing mascots when Mayor Gregor Robertson announced earlier this year that Vancouver taxpayers were "on the hook" for the $1-billion Olympic athletes village, which was then mired in...
Tags: Vancouver Organizing Committee, winter games, Canada, Gregor Robertson, winter olympic
Private funeral for Winter Games chairman
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility Jack Poole, 76, who died after a lengthy battle with cancer, was created for efforts in bringing the Olympics to Vancouver. (CBC) A private funeral is planned on Tuesday for Jack Poole, who is widely credited for leading the effort to bring the 2010...
Changing of the guard in Vancouver
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility A gainst a backdrop of rugged mountains and soaring trees, B.C. business leaders have tended to look larger-than-life. The generation that built the Vancouver corporate community featured entrepreneurs like Jack Poole, the real estate developer-cum-Olympic...
Tags: Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee, Vancouver Organizing Committee, Jack Poole, olympic flame, winter games, organizers committee
VANOC board chair Jack Poole dies
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility 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...
Tags: Vancouver Sun, Vancouver 2010 Organizing Committee, Vancouver Organizing Committee, Vancouver Organising Committee, Jack Poole, winter games, vancouver olympic, Conne River, pancreatic cancer, B.C. MLA
Anti-Olympic protester supports violent opposition
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility A self-described "native warrior" and proponent of what he calls "direct action" has told CBC News that he supports virtually any effort to disrupt the 2010 Olympic Games, including acts of violence. A father charged with the first-degree murder of his...
Tags: Vancouver International, Vancouver Organizing Committee, winter games, officials plans, transport plans, B.C
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