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Great Moments From The Games: Our Girls Know How To Party
The snowboarders have nothing on our girls, who now carry the “bad boy” image for the Winter Olympics. They caused a bit of a ruckus, but you can’t fault them for showing how Canadians party. IOC to investigate Canadian women’s celebration. After being told of the celebrations by a reporter, Gilbert Felli, the IOC’s executive director of Olympic [...]
Vancouver Secrets | more | posted February 28th
winter olympics, felli, canadian women, snowboarders, ruckus, ioc, bad boy, canadians, celebrations, executive director, olympics, olympic, celebration, girls
Canadian Athletes Have the Midas Touch!
We are for the time being on top of the leaderboard for most playings of the national anthem. Our anthem has been played more than any other, with two days of competition remaining. We are in gold medal matches for hockey, curling, and long track team pursuit on Saturday. We also have two teams in the top six for the final two heats of 4 man bobsled. "People you know they can't believe" Can
The Iceman | more | posted February 27th
national anthem, team pursuit, kevin martin, dissapointment, gold medal, ioc, leaderboard, olympics, canada
Women's Olympic Champions: No Apology Necessary
 Let's hope the men's team can follow the Women's Gold Medal Win! I am confident the majority of Canadians who were watching, cheering on our ladies last night, will not require an  APOLOGY. I DO NOT accept the double standard, how male athletes are excused for much worse behaviour on a regular basis. We can blame this on our tabloid style media for acting like bottom feeders AGAIN.
Canadiansense | more | posted February 26th
tabloid style, style media, male athletes, gold medal, apology, canadians, canadian olympic committee, international olympic committee, michael chambers, committee mark, hockey canada, cold drink, petti, hockey game, team canada, straight face, ioc, dressing room, confines, embarrassment
The cost/benefit hangover shuffle
Regular readers of this blog will know that I've been pretty critical of the Olympic Games. Not because I necessarily dislike the Games themselves ( although I think the IOC kinda jumped the shark when they awarded the Games to China ), but generally because they've been a source of misinformation, disinformation, over-spending, over-regulating, and over-all bad governance in the Province over t
The Blog of Walker | more | posted February 24th
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Be Loud and Proud Canada!
The Canadian pride at these Olympics is outstanding. Our athletes are doing better than we could have hoped for, and the media is whining. What a bunch of do nothing babies. It appears that a lot of the empty seats at events is because the media is staying in the brier patch instead of actually going to the events. It appears the media have prorogued the Olympics. Own the Podium is being revved up
Climbing out of the dark | more | posted February 18th
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So Much for the Olympic Truce
We didn’t start this fight with the Taliban. But if we remain true to our tradition as Canadians and responsible members of the international community, we’re going to help finish it — notwithstanding those commentators who seem to think that we ought to put down our weapons at the behest of the IOC or VANOC [...] Related posts:Combating Withdrawal Symptoms If 30 nations pul
Jonathon Narvey | more | posted February 18th
taliban movement, vanoc, responsible members, withdrawal symptoms, behest, ioc, commentators, secretary general, canadians, taliban, confusion, weapons, proof, afghanistan, nato, tradition, canada, solidarity committee, nwe, co founder, human rights
IOC Doesn’t Like The Idea Of Supporting The Troops
The offensive “logo” in question. Photo: REUTERS/Shaun Best According to Reuters news service, American goaltender Jonathan Quick has to remove the slogan “Support Our Troops” because it’s in contravention of Olympic rules on political propaganda. That’s right folks, the IOC is an equal opportunity non-partisan organization that wouldn’t want to upset the
Unambiguously Ambidextrous | more | posted February 16th
reuters news service, jonathan quick, political propaganda, olympic rules, partisan organization, goaltender, contravention, ioc, slogan, equal opportunity, al qaeda, taliban, jonathan, photo
More momentum for all-nude Olympics
A few days ago I wrote an argument for returning the modern Olympic games to the ancient Greek tradition of having athletes compete naked. Since then I have learned that Canada's women's biathlon team, currently competing in Vancouver, has published a nude calendar to raise funds for their sport. For those of you who enjoy pictures of fit naked women tastefully posed with guns, you can order a
Diogenes Borealis | more | posted February 15th
biathlon team, private subsidies, exercise regimes, modern olympic games, greek tradition, nude athletes, time society, physical exercise, gymnasia, high time, olympic games, naked women, spartans, sparta, nudity, origins, olympics, few days, guns, vancouver, ioc
Protest Turns Violent
Personally, I have no use for the Olympics and can’t wait for the IOC to leave town taking its 5-ring circus with it. Having said that, there is no excuse for this, “Vancouver Police are engaged with a group of more than 200 masked protesters near Granville and Georgia who are marching through the downtown core, [...]
Rite Turn Only | more | posted February 13th
vancouver police, ring circus, ioc, protesters, olympics, excuse
Let's run the Olympics like the ancient Greeks did: all nude
Chatelaine magazine has an on-line photo spread of six of Canada's male winter Olympic athletes in various stages of undress. The picture at right is of skier Kyle Nissen, skis strageically placed. So here's an idea - lets start staging the Olympic games with all nude athletes, just like they did in ancient Greece. I think it would do wonders for TV ratings.The ancient Greek Olympic games were
Diogenes Borealis | more | posted February 8th
winter olympic athletes, greek olympic games, private subsidies, exercise regimes, kyle nissen, modern olympic games, nude athletes, ancient tradition, physical exercise, ancient greece, line photo, gymnasia, amazing things, ioc, greek word, word meaning, olympic games, spartans, skier, tv ratings
If You Don’t Like the Olympics Don’t Come to Vancouver
At least, don’t try to get here from the USA. You’ll be turned back (like this guy was) by border agents who seem to have been instructed that merely opposing the Olympics is a threat to public order. Remind me again, who cuts our border agents’ checks: the feds or the IOC? Related posts:Not Politically Correct About [...] Related posts:Not Politica
Jonathon Narvey | more | posted February 7th
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Leave the Kangaroo Alone
Another great decision by the IOC
Ranting Owl | more | posted February 6th
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"Dave, er... Iggy's not here man"
Despite the imposition of a code of silence on Mr. Rebagliati by the federal Liberal Party, for whom he plans to run in the next election, the former Olympian spoke openly about his desire to see marijuana legalized."Prohibition didn't work; this isn't working," he said after running with the torch, which some have even said resembles a giant joint. He was ultimately allowed to keep his gold m
halls of macadamia | more | posted January 26th
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Amen, Dave Zirin
Dave Zirin on the Olympics:“I mean if there could be a way we could de-link this idea of an international festival of sports with the IOC, and let the IOC become an absolute relic of history, that would be something that I would support very happily,” he said.
The Blog of Walker | more | posted January 20th
dave zirin, ioc, relic, olympics, sports
B'nai Brith has jumped the shark
An interesting editorial in the NP. Ezra has long made the point that Canada's official Jews are not doing anyone much good these days. They are the chief supporters of the hrc thought police. Now this. As someone who has contributed to B'nai Brith in the past, I don't think I will ever donate to them again. It's enough already.Now compare all this to the current controversy over the issue of
Dr Roy | more | posted January 11th
b nai brith, olympic ski jump, female participants, anti semitism, ski jumping, ioc, animus, hrc, swastika, ezra, current state, sharks, hatred, jews, controversy, joke, np, pool, canada
Female Ski Jumpers Survive Holocaust?
Do you ever wake up in the morning and open up the newspaper to see a story where you half expect Ashton Kusher to come running around the corner with a film crew? Well female ski jumpers have now been compared to Jews suffering in the Holocaust. Wow. What do you say to something like that? Look I am on the record saying that I think the sport should be in the Winter Olympics, but just because ver
The Iceman | more | posted January 6th
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BC Opposition MP's want the evil Stephen Harper to do their bidding.
Liberal Joyce Murray (Vancouver Quadra) and New Democrat Libby Davies (Vancouver East) want the PM to contact International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge and personally intervene, where the PM has no business getting involved, to resolve a dispute over the exclusion of female ski jumpers at next month's Winter Olympics.Yes, these 2 MP's, one a Liberal and the other an NDP, want the P
Alberta Ardvark | more | posted January 6th
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