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Rose, Buble to headline Olympics coverage
Brisbane :: Australia | 5 days ago
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RE not names usually associated with sport but MTV host Ruby Rose and Canadian singer Michael Buble are set to headline Foxtel's 2010 Winter Games coverage. The pay TV provider revealed its lineup of presenters in Sydney today, with Rose and Buble to...
Tags: Michael Buble, Foxtel, Brian Walsh, winter games, Ruby Rose, Australia, Brisbane, Nine Network, Steve Liebmann, Michael Bublￃﾩ, News Corporation, Fox Entertainment Group
Village gets a new reputation as it moves from problems to praise
Vancouver :: Canada | 18 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
Protesters block Olympic torch relay
Victoria :: Canada | 23 days ago
Credibility Anti-Olympic activists forced the 2010 Olympic torch run to divert from its planned route Friday night as the relay headed toward what was supposed to be a triumphant finale at the B.C. legislature. Several hundred protesters, angry that billions are...
Tags: olympic torch, Victoria International Airport, torch relay, Simon Whitfield, Catriona Le May Doan, winter games, Vancouver, relay starts, protesters blocks, vancouver winter
Winter Games...
Athens :: Greece | 24 days ago
Credibility John Furlong, the CEO of Vancouver�s Olympic Organizing Committee, carries a miner�s lantern containing the Olympic Flame out of the Panathenaic Stadium following a handover ceremony in Athens yesterday. After an eight-day trip around Greece, the flame...
Tags: Metro Vancouver's TransLink, olympic flame, Canada, B.C, Greece, Greek Association, winter games, Victoria International Airport, Fani Halkia, olympic committee
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
2010 torch lighting practice goes smoothly
Olympia :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Olympic officials have successfully completed a full rehearsal of the torch lighting ceremony for the 2010 Games in Ancient Olympia under a scorching Grecian sun. Clara Hughes capped off the World Cup speedskating trials Tuesday by winning the women's...
Tags: olympic flame, ancient olympia, winter games, Greater Vancouver, torch relay, Greece, Greek, torch lighting
3 cites seek to host 2018 Winter Games
Lausanne :: Switzerland | about 1 month ago
Credibility Cities in France, Germany and South Korea placed bids to be chosen as the site for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games...The IOC will appoint a committee to review each city's potential to carry out the Winter Games. Locations that meet IOC qualifications will...
Tags: winter games, IOC, Munich, winter olympic, South Korean, Pyeongchang
New Olympic medals unveiled
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Instead of the traditional design of round and flat, the 2010 Winter Games medals, unveiled Thursday in Vancouver, will have an undulating shape. They will be one of the heaviest medals in Games history to grace the chest of athletes. Each one will weigh...
Tags: Vancouver, Kohei Uchimura, winter olympic, olympic medals, Oguchi Onyewu, games history, champion kohei, vancouver olympic, gymnastics championships, winter games
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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