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Tickets to 2010 Vancouver Games go on sale in October
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
Prepare to get screwed: Vancouver organizers will place the bulk of the 1.6 million tickets on sale in October, with a lottery through the Games' Web site, www.vancouver2010.com. But American fans won't be able to simply get in line online with Canadians. Those tickets, ranging in price from $25 for cross-country skiing to $1,100 for the opening ceremony, will be sold only to Canadian residents. Americans will need to pursue a separate procedure, purchasing through Jet Set Sports, the sole agency licensed to resell Vancouver 2010 tickets in America.
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Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry - convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a higher standard. Cheek, co-founder of a group of athletes known as Team Darfur, had his visa revoked by Chinese authorities hours before he was to embark for Beijing. Team Darfur athletes who are in Beijing have acceded to International Olympic Committee curbs on political comment, resulting in what Cheek called "massive suppression of any voice that the government doesn't want heard."
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Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud
Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot
A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here (1) and here (2), showing the age of one of China's gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government-issued passport. Now that official government documentation is available, how long will the IOC be able to keep a lid on this scandal?
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Do You Carry Black or White Pebbles In Your Organic Pockets?
Posted by vishal98 from Feeds.treehugger
Image source: The White Pebble.Based on the belief that we carry black or white pebbles with us, depending on the choices we make in our lives (black pebbles represent self-focused, irresponsibl...
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5,200 Hunters Under Age 15 Licensed by Washington, One Shoots Hiker
Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
As Skagit County prosecutors announced their intentions to file criminal charges against a 14-year-old boy who fatally shot a hiker when he mistook her for a bear, a leading state legislator is pushing for tougher restrictions on juvenile hunters.
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GM Place to change name for 2010 Olympics
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
General Motors Place will get a new name stripped of corporate marks during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the organizing committee said Wednesday.
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2 Dutch climbers rescued from K-2
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
The Ministry of Tourism released a list of 11 climbers believed dead: three South Koreans, two Nepalis, two Pakistanis and mountaineers from France, Ireland, Serbia and Norway. At least two of them fell on their way up the mountain, before the avalanche.
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From Mao to Yao Ming
Posted by Shemuses from The Tyee
Tiananmen changed the Chinese view of the body. Now that the Beijing Olympics draws near, let's talk about the Chinese view of the body, how it went from Mao to Yao Ming, that is, from a culture of collective thinking to that of singular, athletic and glamorous.
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Iraq banned from Beijing Summer Olympics
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
IOC says Iraq will not compete at Beijing Olympics because of government interference. Iraq has been banned because of a government decision to disband the country's National Olympic Committee, a senior official of the committee said on Thursday.
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Blacks Banned from Bars in Beijing?
Posted by Shemuses from
China is weeks away from hosting the 2008 Olympic Games and there are several final touches being made in Beijing to make sure that the country is the perfect host. One of these last-minute details, however, may be completely contradictory to the official slogan, "One World, One Dream". Hong Kong's English newspaper The South China Morning Post reported Friday that Chinese authorities have issued a secret ban on blacks, Mongolians and other "social undesirables" from Beijing's bars during the Olympics. Bar owners near the Workers' Stadium in central Beijing say they have been forced by Public Security Bureau officials to sign pledges agreeing not to let black people enter their premises…
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YouTube - Vincedelmontefitness Brings You No Nonsense Muscle Building
Posted by vincedelmontefitness from You Tube
Cool weightlifting program by vincedelmontefitness that offers you free training video's and a free ebook "20 ways to avoid screwing up in the gym" written by Vince Delmonte the man behind "no nonsense muscle building" and the Canadian champion fitness model.
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Hong Kong bans Tibetan flags at Olympic event
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Tibetan flags will be banned from all Olympic equestrian events in Hong Kong under rules aimed at heading off political propaganda and protests inside competition venues, organizers said Friday. The crackdown guidelines apply to flags representing countries and regions without athletes in the events.
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