Woe, Canada! Olympic problems and missteps pile up

Woe, Canada! Olympic problems and missteps pile up

The cancellation of 20,000 more tickets to events at Cypress Mountain, on top of myriad other woes, is putting Vancouver Olympics organizers increasingly on the defensive as they attempt to salvage the world's impressions of the Games taking place here.
By Jack Broom
Seattle Times staff reporter

The cancellation of 20,000 more tickets to events at Cypress Mountain, on top of myriad other woes, is putting Vancouver Olympics organizers increasingly on the defensive as they attempt to salvage the world's impressions of the Games taking place here.

In an hourlong Tuesday briefing touching on everything from transportation snafus to equipment failures to weather woes to the prison-camp look of the Olympic caldron display, some reporters demanded to know if this might be the worst start ever to an Olympic Games.

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By far the biggest pall was cast even before the Games opened, with the Friday death at Whistler of Georgian luge racer Nodar Kumaritashvili triggering controversy about safety of the track.

And since then, the problems and gaffes just seem to keep coming.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011100031_olywoes17.html

Think of the space you could save, and you could get all your (I mean THE WORLD'S!) complaints all laid out in a much more conclusive fashion?

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what's the big deal?

and our poster ain't the only one paying attention . . .

from the posted article:

""London 2012 can't be worse than the Vancouver Games this winter" headlined The Times of London."

OUCH!

We NEED to be aware of our own deficiencies, how else can we rectify them?

Just tired of seeing the same thing posted over and over. Never anything good about them, that poster has pointed out the same 'deficiencies' probably a dozen times if you count how many he / she has added to them.

OUCH! Not.

We're all well aware of them, it would be nice to see maybe even one with something good to say.


Oh, but I do have quite a few relatives and friends there watching, all having a great time and saying that apart from the Georgian luger's death which devastated everyone ........ the athletes seem very happy and are amazing.

I enjoy the olmpyics and have played hockey, curled, skiid, all my life. I come here hoping to read on some of the accomplishments, record-breakers - all I see is how horrible, terrible we Canadians are. Too bad.

The thread I started really got this poster wound up. Of course it was meant to defend Canada. OOPS. My bad.

Critics slam 'dangerous' luge track


Accusations are flying that fast Whistler track where luger died was built on steep terrain with more thought given to profit than safety


February 18, 2010


Robert Cribb

Petti Fong


Already facing withering criticism for what some are calling a cursed Olympic Games, Vancouver organizers awoke Wednesday to allegations that the Whistler luge track where a Georgian athlete died last week was plagued by dangerous design flaws from the beginning.

The Wall Street Journal reported the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) chose Whistler as the luge site because of its lucrative post-Games tourism potential despite the steep and narrow terrain that produced unprecedented speeds of more than 150 km/h.


http://olympics.thestar.com/2010/article/767265--critics-slam-dangerous-luge-track