Tonight, Dartmouth’s Sarah Conrad is competing in the women’s half-pipe semi-finals, starting at 8pm. Team Conrad will be meeting—wearing their finest patriotic gear—at Dave Doolittle’s Taproom & Grill (90 Tacoma Drive) to cheer her on, so bring your noisemakers and foam fingers. Exciting! Oohlala: I wonder if the French women’s snowboarding team will be drawing on hipster staches too, like French half-pipe snowboarder Mathieu Crepel.
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Canada’s emo pants are too tight for snowboard cross
Canadian silver medallist Mike Robertson’s pants are too emo for the Americans. There is a reason why athletes are athletes and not Toast Masters or fashion designers. US snowboard cross team member Nate Holland objects loudly to tight pants, and he will “usually offer a gentle reprimand” at the starting gate. But it’s not a […]
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More Canada bashing from the UK
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
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Blame Canada: the Brits are…
Daily Mail columnist Martin Samuel believes that Nodar Kumaritashvili‘s coffin should be stamped with a maple leaf. “Made in Canada, it should say. Made by the perversion of the Olympic movement for national gain; made by a culture of worthless aggrandisement and pride.” Samuel goes on to blame Canada’s Own the Podium program, and the […]
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Olympics at ground level
I am The Coast’s eyes and ears on the street at the Vancouver Olympics. Over the course of the next few weeks I am aiming to blog about everything you can’t get on through the tube, the sports pages or twitter: the feeling on the ground, the people, the venues, the culture, the nightlife, the Nova Scotian presence. I welcome any suggestions or questions you may have relating to the Olympics. Crossing the Rockies on the way to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics My Olympic experience began as well as I could have hoped: sitting between a girl of Irish-Swedish heritage
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Barenaked Ladies become medal ceremony bluenosers
Our Canada includes reformed 80s Aussie bands and reality show winners. OK, call me old-fashioned, but I miss the excitement of seeing athletes receive their medals right after they win, while they’re still in the sweaty shock of realizing, “Holy shit, I just won!” And I was just watching the parents of Canadian speedskating bronze-medal […]
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Best sponsor medal: Join the Colbert nation
Maybe if we were part of Colbert Nation like Katherine Reutter, our start in men’s speed skating would have been a little smoother.
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Homer hurries hard?
The last time the Simpsons family came to Canada it was to buy cheap prescription drugs with fake Canadian health care cards. Tomorrow night they join the US curling team and Lisa finds her own drug: Olympic pin collecting. Generally, Canada is used by either lazy writers who have to make a character appear kinda […]
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Separated at birth II: Catriona Le May-Doan & Kate Gosselin?
Is it all in the hair? Former Olympian and CTV host Catriona Le May-Doan does her best Gosselin impression. This one goes out to Fashionable People
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Opening ceremonies: tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1985.
Tonight we partied on Twitter like it was 1985. From the return of Donald Sutherland busting open a snowglobe of athletes’ dreams, to the odd line of dancers in white puffy jackets doing a bizarre pee-dance as they welcomed the international athletes into the stadium, the night was an odd, but at times touching, throwback. artist’s rendering of the Olympic fashion. I hope Lionel Ritchie is having night terrors over this one. NBC premiered the remake of “We Are The World,” I’m assuming, to find a captive audience, not to overshadow the games. But this is probably the only time
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Separated at birth? Shaun White and Carrot Top
I was wondering why Carrot Top was at the Olympics (he wouldn’t pass the roid test), but turns out it’s US snowboarder Shaun White. You be the judge.
