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2014 Winter Olympic Stadium Seems Designed By Insectoid Aliens
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...
Tags: Winter, winter olympic, allnews, Russia, Sochi, Winter Olympics, Alien, Translucent, Insectoid, Winter Olympic Games, Bird nest, olympic stadium
Mad men on skis
Sydney :: Canada | 5 days ago
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Lift-off ... downhill racer Steve Podborski flies in his heyday. Robert Upe gets a thrilling taste of Whistler’s Winter Olympic downhill run. Steve Podborski is a touch crazy. He made his reputation as one of the bravest downhill ski racers in the world...
Tags: Steve Podborski, Whistler Blackcomb, winter olympic, Whistler Mountaineer, Hermann Maier, Vancouver, Dave Murray Downhill, Canada, Sydney, Alpine skiing, Dave Murray, Crazy Canucks, Peak 2 Peak Gondola, Whistler British Columbia, Winter Olympics venues, Hospitality Recreation
Winter Olympics invite for Fiji drug officers
Vancouver :: Canada | 5 days ago
Credibility The pair will be among 250 DCOs from around the world working at the Olympics and Paralympics. Vidhya Lakhan. "It will further their personal skills and commitment to anti-doping control, as well as add to the pool of talent in Fiji. "To be chosen for...
Tags: Fiji, winter olympic, doping control, Canada, Vancouver, Cheating, Use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport, Drugs in sport, Doping, Bioethics, allnews
40,000 Vancouver Olympic tickets up for grabs
Vancouver :: Canada | 7 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
Visa Winter Olympics spot written well but tries too hard
Cook :: NE :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility Chiat/Day with two television commercials that try hard to capture the inherent grandeur of the Games...The new Visa television work has some concise, evocative writing, but ultimately, the debut "Anthem" spot feels too overblown to be fully as effective...
Tags: winter olympic, Visa, Cook, Winter Olympic Games, TBWA\Chiat\Day, allnews, Entertainment Culture, Acronyms, Visa Inc., TBWA Worldwide
Olympic tickets go quickly as computer system back up
Vancouver :: Canada | 11 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
Women ski jumpers lose appeal
Vancouver :: Canada | 12 days ago
Credibility Ski jumpers Jessica Jerome, right, of Park City, Utah, and Karla Keck, centre, of Oconomowoc, Wisc., lead their fellow athletes to speak to reporters outside British Columbia Court of Appeal in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday November 12, 2009. Faith that...
Tags: Alpine Canada, Atlantic Canada, Newfoundlanders, ski jumpers, olympic torch, ski jump, torch relay, Appeal Court, winter olympic, women ski, Canada, Vancouver, Winter Olympic Games, Lindsey Van, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Winter Olympics, Ski jumping, Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics, allnews, Powder Mountain Icefield, Sigmund Ruud, Law Crime, William Faulkner, Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics torch relay, Fire, Olympic Flame, Torch, Human Interest
Sonic crowd control device for Vancouver police
Vancouver :: Canada | 15 days ago
Credibility Vancouver police have a new crowd control device capable of emitting painfully loud blasts of sound, just in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics, CBC News has learned. A large B.C. trucking operation is under government scrutiny after some of its drivers...
Tags: Vancouver Canucks, Vancouver Police, B.C, sonic gun, Columbia Civil Liberties Association, road vehicles, winter olympic, Roberto Luongo
Village gets a new reputation as it moves from problems to praise
Vancouver :: Canada | 20 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
Olympic rental market swamped with homes
Vancouver :: Canada | 22 days ago
Credibility The Olympic dream for many in B.C.'s Lower Mainland has little to do with sporting events or who makes it to the podium. Three more people with H1N1 swine flu have died in B.C., and the number of serious cases nearly doubled over the past week, officials...
Tags: Vancouver Island, swine flu, B.C, winter olympic, olympic ticket, Yukon, h1n1 swine, olympic torches
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