2010 Vancouver Olympic & Paralympic Super-Thread - Page 33

Yume-sama · #**641** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 6:38 AM**

>.> 100,000 spectators? Where

?

I'm happy I live close enough to walk

Planning to arrive 3+ hours before the ceremony to get through security, though.

mr.x · #**642** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 6:45 AM**

100,000 spectators, visitors, performers, media....the sentence continues.

Yume-sama · #**643** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 6:49 AM**

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Originally Posted by mr.x

100,000 spectators, visitors, performers, media....the sentence continues.

You sure the roof in BC Place won't collapse from the hot air of 100,000 people?!

Speaking of Hot Air...

Activists to use Olympics to get media attention

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# Feb. 7 - The 2010 Poverty Olympics at the Japanese Hall on Alexander Street. Calling it "free family fun with a conscience," organizers say the Poverty Games will include events like Welfare Hurdles and Skating Around Poverty.
# Feb. 14 - An annual memorial march honouring missing and murdered women is planned to start at Main and Hastings Streets.
# Feb. 15 - A protest the activists called an "action against homelessness" at a location yet to be disclosed.
# Feb. 20 - A rally by the Olympic clock outside the Vancouver Art Gallery in support of a national housing program.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/01/12/bc-protest-schedule-olympics.html

So, visitors will be treated to an average day in Vancouver, with people bringing Darfur and anti-fur posters to a seemingly aimless poverty rally.

Then people in actual poor Countries suffering from actual poverty can see them on TV in their designer clothes protesting their own poverty.

Delirium · #**644** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 6:13 PM**

there's some great pictures of the Oval wrap here (among others). i like what they did to the Pacific Coliseum (pg.2).
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susangittins/

Yume-sama · #**645** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 7:50 PM**

I got my 2010 Olympic Torch in the mail today. I didn't eBay, I bought from a charity, instead.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/syume/4271693011/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/syume/4271694765/in/photostream

So, if you see someone jogging down Robson Street with a torch...

Actually I'd probably be tackled by a first year liberal arts student by the time I reached the art gallery.

Maybe I'll keep it to myself, then

BCPhil · #**646** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 7:56 PM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

I got my 2010 Olympic Torch in the mail today. I didn't eBay, I bought from a charity, instead.

So, if you see someone jogging down Robson Street with a torch...

Actually I'd probably be tackled by a first year liberal arts student by the time I reached the art gallery.

Maybe I'll keep it to myself, then

That's a cool idea buying it from charity. Do you have any history of the torch? Like who ran with it and where?

Yume-sama · #**647** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 7:57 PM**

Hmm, I don't know who. But I know it was in Quebec. I was sent the full uniform, stand, and special torch bearer red mittens (they have maple leaf shaped hand grips on the palm).

Locked In · #**648** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 9:03 PM**

Progress at Seymour and Nelson:

(my photo, taken today)

Yume-sama · #**649** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 10:18 PM**

What's going there, and how do they expect to be done before Olympics

?

SpongeG · #**650** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 10:42 PM**

its the showroom for the condo isn't it?

SpongeG · #**651** Posted **Jan 13, 2010, 11:41 PM**

VANOC closes Cypress until after Games

Rain, rain go away, Olympic athletes want to play.

After a flood of heavy rains, Olympic officials have closed Cypress Mountain — the soon-to-be home of the Games freestyle and snowboarding event — to the public two and a half weeks earlier than scheduled.

A snow salvage project is underway, the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) stated in a press release.

"Every day we're making decisions and taking steps to deal with the weather we have or can see coming. We're confident these courses will be in world-class shape when the athletes start to arrive to practice in the first week of February," VANCO's vice president of sport Tim Gayda stated in the release.

...

http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/northshoreoutlook/breaking_news/81345872.html

nova9 · #**652** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 12:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by Yume-sama

Hmm, I don't know who. But I know it was in Quebec. I was sent the full uniform, stand, and special torch bearer red mittens (they have maple leaf shaped hand grips on the palm).

so instead of the regular maple leaf like on the mittens, it's got like leathery/rubbery maple leaf patch instead. is that correct?

SpongeG · #**653** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 2:23 AM**

did anyone see global news tonight? they showed off the media centre - they have a bank a general store anda mcdonalds inside it!

GeeCee · #**654** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 2:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

did anyone see global news tonight? they showed off the media centre - they have a bank a general store anda mcdonalds inside it!

Which one, the main media centre at Canada Place? That's where I'll be working at..

Will have to watch the news once I get home from school.

Locked In · #**655** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 6:00 AM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

its the showroom for the condo isn't it?

Is it? For 999 Seymour? I just figured it was Olympics related, but I don't really know. Anyone know for sure?

SpongeG · #**656** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 8:26 AM**

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Originally Posted by GeeCee

Which one, the main media centre at Canada Place? That's where I'll be working at..

Will have to watch the news once I get home from school.

yes there at canada place...

a tiny little royal bank it was cute and a mcdonalds - all so the media doesn't have to leave

Delirium · #**657** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 1:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by Locked In

Is it? For 999 Seymour? I just figured it was Olympics related, but I don't really know. Anyone know for sure?

i don't think it's for the condo. their sales office previously was off-site.
isn;t this the Irish House?

Smooth · #**658** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 8:49 PM**

I was just in the Bay at Park Royal and they were setting up a new Olympic merchandise section on the 2nd floor. They had quite a few red mittens available in all sizes

Pinion · #**659** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:50 PM**

2010 Olympic game panned in first review.... which came out well after release, a sign even the developers knew it was crap:

http://reviews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1837/Vancouver-2010/p1/

"Oh, the poor Winter Olympics. How many of your reading this were even aware that they were starting next month in Vancouver? Other than our Canadian readers, that is."

Ouch. Teamxbox is a huge, reputable site btw (owned by IGN).

Putting out a bad game is a really big waste of an opportunity. Ignoring the gaming market is almost as bad as ignoring the TV market these days. Old school thinking.

SpongeG · #**660** Posted **Jan 14, 2010, 10:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

i don't think it's for the condo. their sales office previously was off-site.
isn;t this the Irish House?

isn't irish house in gastown?

maybe we should make a sticky and list of the known "houses" for the olympics...