its more than 2 weeks - the restrictions have already started - they started at the beginning of December
and speaking of olympic stuff - they have installed a new overhead pedstrian contraption between the casino and bc place stadium - I noticed it last night for the first time - its just east of the permanent pedestrian overpass and there are a ton of new tents in the parking lot just west of the stadium
also - there is a big Pepsi logo on the big screen at the stadium - will that need to be covered up? and isn't pepsi the main drink inside the stadium? will they have to cover up any pepsi things and only serve coke?
It's disappointing to me that so many logical, factual comments on that article were severely voted down. The Georgia Straight has always been left leaning, but now it's the left wing equivalent of Fox News.
We could have the best Olympics ever, and these people will never believe anything positive had occurred.
It's disappointing to me that so many logical, factual comments on that article were severely voted down. The Georgia Straight has always been left leaning, but now it's the left wing equivalent of Fox News.
We could have the best Olympics ever, and these people will never believe anything positive had occurred.
Yes, and like the people on CBC they think because the majority on that website agreed with them, the whole WORLD does.
They really seem to hate the guy who debunked all of the authors claims with an actual thought out comment...
You know, other than the standard "HAR HAR CAMPBELL SUCKS DOWN WITH OLYMPIC AND RICH PEOPLE!"
I friggin hate the Straight. Just take a look at the Views on the Olympics section on that page.. nearly all negative. And this article is filled with half-truths and incorrect statements to boot.
The real gold in the article is the political party he aligns himself with. The "Work Less Political Party". It sounds more like a joke from "The Onion" with their slogan "Alarm clocks kill dreams - WORK LESS!" Though clearly, by the fact that all of his facts are wrong, he takes their message of not working very hard (as a journalist?) to heart. Something tells me that they would be worse for Vancouver than the Olympics http://www.apathyisboring.com/en/the_facts/political_parties/27 http://www.worklessparty.org/
And these people wonder why they are never taken seriously by more than their group of a dozen other crazies.
also - there is a big Pepsi logo on the big screen at the stadium - will that need to be covered up? and isn't pepsi the main drink inside the stadium? will they have to cover up any pepsi things and only serve coke?
As I understand it, yes. Virtually all advertising will be removed for the Games-time period and replaced with official sponsors. Coke products would be sold instead of Pepsi as is the case for all venues..
Vancouver’s upcoming Chinese New Year Parade will go ahead as planned on Feb. 14, 2010 — the second day of the Winter Olympic Games — despite Chinatown’s nearness to Olympic venues and routes.
Parade organizers changed the route and gave the 36th annual parade an earlier-than-usual start to accomodate Olympic roadblocks — and had some crucial luck with Olympic scheduling.
“The Chinese Gods were smiling on the parade because there are no events at GM Place on that day. If there were, we couldn’t have done the parade,” Muriel Honey, manager of films and special events for the City of Vancouver, said Tuesday.
GM Place and B.C. Place, both Olympic venues, are a few blocks from the parade’s route through Chinatown.
Honey said that police would have been unable to cope with tens of thousands of spectators watching the Chinese New Year’s Parade plus 17,000 Olympic ticket-holders heading to GM Place for a hockey game.
The 36th annual parade will start at 9:30 a.m.The parade has to be off Pender Street by 11 a.m. — an hour before the traditional start time — because it connects to Hastings Street, a key Olympic transportation route, which must be kept open, said Honey.
The parade will begin at Taylor and Abbott Streets and proceed eastbound on Pender Street, southbound on Gore Street and then westbound on Keefer Street. In an Olympic twist, the parade will continue up the Keefer Steps to the downtown “Olympic Live Site” at Georgia and Hamilton Streets, where spectators and Olympic tourists will be able to watch traditional dancing lions and other parade performers.
“The Olympic exposure will be wonderful for the parade,” said Honey.
Edit: oh, they are not listed in rank.. never mind.
Given the top line for the Russian team and the expectation that if we don't get gold, these guys will be executed, I would rather Broduer and Fleury to be ahead of Luongo. They have more experience playing with/against that line.
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Surrey Plans Massive Olympic Celebrations at Holland Park
Wednesday, December 30, 2009, CBC News
The City of Surrey, B.C., is planning a massive 13-day winter festival to celebrate the 2010 Olympic Winter Games at Holland Park.
Giant tents and four massive video screens will be set up to broadcast Olympic events in the 24-acre urban park next to the King George Highway, starting on Feb. 12, the opening night of the Games.
Surrey Coun. Linda Hepner said the city, located southeast of Vancouver, may not be hosting any Olympic sporting events but it does have enough spirit to host the biggest Olympic party south of the Fraser River.
"We're a city of young families and promoting healthy living and healthy activity, and this is one way that we can be part of the whole thing," Hepner said.
Among the free events planned for the site are daily shows of the RCMP Musical Ride, top musical acts like Blue Rodeo and Sam Roberts, and winter activities like tobogganing, skating, curling, and arts and crafts.
The money to host the party for an estimated 20,000 people each day will come from combining other winter events already in the city's budget, she said.
"We've collapsed a few of our city events that we would ordinarily do in the winter like our Winterfest, so we're investing on-site about $3 million," said Hepner.
The event is being held just steps away from the King George SkyTrain station so tourists and partiers from downtown Vancouver can easily make their way to the festival.
Just thought I'd post this pic I took the other night of the Omega store setup in the Hotel Vancouver for the Olympics. I'm not sure if anybody posted a photo of it yet. Didn't go inside though.
So I got an HBC Olympic sweater from family that got big Vancouver 2010 logos plastered all over it. As much as I like the Olympics, I have to ask... do people seriously wear those normally doing normal every day things !?
I remember years ago I put on a Vancouver 2010 shirt for a workout and people were looking at me funny
So I got an HBC Olympic sweater from family that got big Vancouver 2010 logos plastered all over it. As much as I like the Olympics, I have to ask... do people seriously wear those normally doing normal every day things !?
I remember years ago I put on a Vancouver 2010 shirt for a workout and people were looking at me funny
All I did this winter was note how many people were wearing Olympic stuff. And seriously, the stores are bare except the least attractive stuff. Everyone's looking and fighting to get the red gloves (only kid sizes left) and the canada zip hoodie. It's crazy.
Anyone else notice how all the people staffed in the Olympic Superstore all seem to be speaking with an Australian or British accent. I love it.
I have noticed Olympic wear all over Calgary and Toronto (well, the airport anyways), and even on a whole bunch of Canadians (I assume) in New York City, as well.
I think it's nice that the majority of clothing actually looks alright, which helps!
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I was wondering about that, actually. Hopefully we get some fireworks, too.
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