- So tell me what you want, what you really really want. The perfect Games.
Yesterday it was the Daily Mail, today Lawrence Donegan from the Guardian declared that there’s pretty much nothing redeeming about the Vancouver Olympics at all.
It’s not like we’re over here waving our cheap maple leaf mittens from Zeller’s, but c’mon, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics had a BOMB. Two people died, and 111 were injured.
Of course the news that 20,000 standing-room tickets to Cypress mountain events were cancelled because of rain (Nagano had 60,000 according to the IOC) doesn’t help and neither does Vanoc’s head of communications, Renee Smith-Valade, saying, “Cypress is like your special child.”
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2010.
I think hosting it in one of the only Canadian cities that doesn’t regularly get snow (and instead gets tons of rain) isn’t helpful, either. But hey, I’m still waving around my cheap maple leaf mittens!
Disgraceful, quit the Canadian bashing!
More good news from the tabloid-rife UK press. Anything to sell a paper, I guess. There’s probably a fish and chips and deep fried Mars bar shortage, which has got all of their knickers in a knot.
It is easier to write about a few glitches in Vancouver than face up to the imminent bankruptcy of your country. Most of Europe is a busted flush.
According to The Times today the UK is heading towards a $300 billion deficit; which, considering it has population twice that of Canada is 3 times bigger than our deficit