Pyeongchang, South Korea Awarded 2018 Winter Olympic Games The IOC has awarded Pyeongchang, South Korea the 2018 Winter Games. Pyeongchang-gun ( is 180km (112 miles) east of Seoul. An established winter-sports...
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Sochi 2014 Mascots: Polar Bear, The Hare, Snowboarding Leopard. Ray of Light and Snowflake: Paralympic Mascots Russia has spoken: The Sochi (Сочи) 2014 Winter Games mascots have been chosen. Meet The Hare,...
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Men's Ice Hockey Final: Canada 3 USA 2 ("Sudden Death") Finland 5 Slovakia 3 So, Canada (Gold) has a population of 34,017,000 U.S.A. (Silver) has a population of 308,372,000...
On Friday afternoon Canada and Slovakia will battle it out in the second of two semi-final games in the Men's Olympic Hockey tournament, the winner get a shot at gold, the loser, a shot at bronze. The puck drops...
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First British Solo Winter Olympic Gold for 30 YearsAmy Williams has won the skeleton Olympic gold medal breaking her own track record. The slider from Bath overcame all the nerves of being the last slider to go and...
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At the half-way point of the Winter Olympics womens skeleton event Britains Amy Williams has a lead which could see Team Great Britain achieving its first Winter Olympic Gold for 20 years. Williams set a new track...
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A Vancouver Olymipc protest that took place Saturday February 13 2010 turned violent with about 200 protesters dressed all in black smashing the windows of a department store, the Hudson's Bay Company Olymipc Store,...
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ContainR is an art and film project that is going to be showcasing their work at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games at the downtown Vancouver Shaw Tower site. ContainR is going to be screening 38 films from all...
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Science Daily says an alarming proportion of athletes with rigorous cold-air training end up having problems with their breathing. Virologists investigating transmission say the cold dry weather conditions pull...
As Vancouver prepares to host the 2010 Winter Games, locals began fretting about a supposed police plan to arrest people for having Olympic protest signs in their windows. This turned out not to be true. However, that this story even spread in the first place shows a deep...
Canadian songstress Sarah McLachlan has released the Vancouver 2010 Olympic theme song, called One Dream, and this will be used in all the promos for the 2010 Olympic Games on NBC and Canadian stations. Listen to One Dream by Sarah McLachlan Sarah McLachlan is a Canadian...
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There have been a couple of interesting headlines making the news recently that had to do with the use of surveillance cameras, their efficacy and propensity to intrude into the lives of regular citizens. It was...
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The Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) has announced that next year's 2010 Games is planned to be carbon-neutral.VANOC has secured a $5-million sponsorship from Offsetters Clean Technology, a BC-based company that will provide offset projects and work with Games...
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" As Vancouver gets ready to host the 2010 Winter Olympics, human rights advocates are concerned that prostitution may flourish in the area. “Any time that you have men who are travelling, so they’re away from their social networks and they enjoy a degree of...
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Another reminder to Canadians and the rest of the world that the Winter 2010 Olympic Games are fast approaching. This morning's release of a map describes the path that the Olympic Torch will travel including...
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