Canada takes silver in Olympic snowboard cross; Squamish's Fagan places fifth

Published on 02-16-2010 Comments(0) Full article

Squamish's Rob Fagan won the men's Olympic snowboard cross small final to earn fifth place at Cypress Mountain on Monday (Feb. 15). Canmore Alta.'s Mike Robertson won the silver medal.

Fagan was leading the semi-final until making contact with German boarder David Speiser and briefly losing control and finishing in third place. But he was able to refocus and out-race Speiser and Austrians Lukas Gruener and Mario Fuchs in the small final.

“The small final is not where I want to be but you have to refocus and kill the small final,” he said.

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Vancouver in numbers

Published on 02-13-2010 Comments(1) Full article

Reporters from France Presse found out some significant numbers to describe the Olympics. So, take a look at Vancouver in numbers. according to Agerpres:

* 2: there are only two new trials at this Olympic Games: ski cross (for both male and female)

* 9: this is the number of medals won by Ole Einer Bjoerndalen, the Norwegian biatlonist

* 12: there are only 12 countries which have participated to all editions (since 1924 in Chamonix): Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Switzerland, Sweden and USA

* 21: Vancouver is organizing the 21st edition of the Olympic Games

* 82: there are 82 national Olympic committees who have subscribed athletes in Vancouver; that is 2 times more than the Olympic in Turin, in 2006

* 86: this is the number of gold medals for this edition; there will be 45 medals for men, 38 for women, 2 are mixed and one is for both sexes

* 98: there are 98 gold medals won by Norway

* 2 762: the number of athletes participating at the Olympic Games, a new record for Winter Games, after the 2508 in Turin in 2006. In detail, 1660 men and 1102 women; ice hockey is the most represented (567 athletes - 362 men and 205 women)

* 10 000" this is the number of meal served every day by the athletes in the Olympic Village; that is 350 000 meals for the entire period of time. The athletes will eat almost 60 tons of chicken, 60 tonsof beef, 70000 liters of soup, 40000 liters of milk and 11 tons of cheese

* 10 000: the number of accredited journalist to cover the Games

* 12 000: the number of flame bearers (from Olympia to Vancouver)

* 15 000: manpower deployed to ensure security of the Games; among them, 4500 Canadian soldiers who will help Vancouver's Royal Gendarmerie an municipal police

* 25 000: the number of volunteers with different tasks: drivers, ticket inspectors, IT guys, photographers, interpreters etc.

* 45 000: the total number of kilometers traveled by the Olympic flame through the entire Canada

* 500 000: the number of visitors expected to participate at the Games; that is two times more than the latest Games organized in North America, in Salt Lake City (2002)

LIVE WEBCAST! TORCH PASSES THRU STRATHCONA!!

Published on 02-12-2010 Comments(0) Full article

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Pedobear: a new Olympic mascot?

Published on 02-10-2010 Comments(0) Full article

Polish newspaper Gazeta Olsztynska made a huge snafu when they ran an article on the 2010 Winter Games which included illustrations of the mascots: Quatchi, Sumi, Miga, sidekick Mukmuk and a new addition - Pedobear.

Pedobear is a form of godless bears, except that in addition to being a godless killing machine, they are godless pedophiles. It is a famous Japanese meme and is known in Japan as "Kuma" (meaning "Bear"). Pedobear has become a mascot for online pedophiles, specifically targeting innocent prepubescent girls.

The Olympic mishap, which is already making the rounds on the Internet, looks like it's about to become viral. VANOC has been pretty quick to try to shut down inappropriate use of its copyright symbols but there's no stopping this one.

While the mishap is getting the LOLs online, it looks like not everyone was quick to catch the mistake. DeportesSpain.com has since posted an Olympic-related article including the same Google Image Search Pedobear illustration, even identifying him as such in the cutline.

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FINALLY! Vancouver 2010 iPhone App and Street View from a snowmobile

Published on 02-10-2010 Comments(0) Full article

Presented by Bell, the OFFICIAL Mobile Spectator Guide of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games is here!