Vanoc to start closing Vancouver streets as early as Nov. 1 for Olympic Games
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Vanoc will start closing streets around the region as early as Nov. 1 as it starts to secure sites and install screening stations ahead of the 2010 Olympic Games.
 
Luger's comments about anti-Olympic spirit in Whistler send sport officials into damage control
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
The Canadian Luge Association went into damage control this week after one of its athletes slammed the resort for not being supportive.
 
Athletes' village security test flubbed as helicopter landing zone is blocked
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Emergency? What emergency? The first major exercise in response to a "security breach" at the Olympic athlete's village turned into something out of a Keystone Kops movie.
 
Klassen qualifies in 1,000 metres during trials at Olympic Oval
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Winnipeg's Cindy Klassen continued her speed skating comeback Monday, qualifying for Canada's World Cup team in the 1,000 metres at trials at the Richmond Olympic Oval.
 
Long-track speed skaters break Richmond Olympic Oval track record
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
METRO VANCOUVER — As swaggering boastfulness goes, it was about 18 levels below Tyson-esque.
 
Top-notch, state-of-the-art trauma facility to cater to athletes for 2010 Games
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Vancouver 2010 is getting its own, $4.6-million, MASH-style, mobile hospital where a team of doctors can perform brain and heart surgery.
 
Sikhs permitted to wear ceremonial daggers to Olympic events
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Initiated Sikh men will be permitted to wear ceremonial daggers less than 7.5 inches in length to Vancouver 2010 Winter Games venues, the RCMP's Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit announced Thursday.
 
2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games medals unveiled
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
The design of 2010 Olympic medals unveiled today feature contemporary aboriginal artworks and are undulating rather than flat - both firsts in Games history.
 
Vanoc to pay staff $30 million in Olympic bonuses
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Vancouver’s Olympic organizing committee is planning to pay about $30 million in bonuses to its employees once the Olympic Games are finished.
 
Wotherspooon edgy ahead of Olympic speed-skating trials
Written by Vancouver Sun    Tuesday, 20 October 2009 12:06   
Jeremy Wotherspoon is starting to get that edgy, nervous feeling again. It is, he says, all good.
 


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