Vancouver 2010 Olympics - General Discussion
#601
Posted 28 February 2010 - 10:39 AM
Its too bad the playoffs weren't at BC Place. Think how epic it could have been.
#602
Posted 28 February 2010 - 10:47 AM
http://www.timescolo...4240/story.html
And in a few hours, that item they have in their hand will be worth nothing.
I can't think of another comparable situation. It's wacky.
I can think of one. Virgin Galactic is selling space flights for $200,000, I have heard that some of the early positions have been resold for over a million.
I know if I had tickets I would have went on a fishing trip. Just list them for a really high value and if you get the value great, if not also great. I had a friend who did that for the Slovakia game and got $2k a ticket.
#603
Posted 28 February 2010 - 12:12 PM
#604
Posted 28 February 2010 - 02:04 PM
Lest we forget, in late 1945 the Royal Canadian Navy was the third-largest in the world and the Royal Canadian Air Force was the fourth-largest.For the first time ever, Canada is a world power in something...
It's the winter olympics. It's great that people had a good time but let's not go overboard, folks.
#605
Posted 28 February 2010 - 02:12 PM
#606
Posted 28 February 2010 - 02:34 PM
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#607
Posted 28 February 2010 - 03:26 PM
Is it my imagination or has a lot of the negativity about these games been coming from UK media?
Seb Coe must avoid Vancouver's jingoism if 2012 is to be a success
http://www.guardian....coe-london-2012It's also important for "the brand" that the Olympics be seen as an "international" celebration and not just a celebration of the host country and its athletes.
China was guilty in Beijing two years ago of favouring the former over the later – no surprise there – and so has Canada, which over the last two weeks has shed once and for all an enviable reputation as welcome refuge from sporting jingoism more normally associated with the nation on its southern border, with the Maple leaf more evident than ever before; on the ubiquitous hockey shirts that are everywhere in Vancouver, in the aforementioned Own the Podium campaign and in the thin-skinned response to those who have dared to point out the 2010 winter games have been less than a 100% success.
#608
Posted 28 February 2010 - 03:41 PM
#609
Posted 28 February 2010 - 03:52 PM
#610
Posted 28 February 2010 - 03:55 PM
#611
Posted 28 February 2010 - 04:23 PM
...that's how The Guardian and others sell papers...
Criticizing Vancouver's olympic games would seem to be a very narrow niche in which to specialize. Hopefully it's paying off well right about now because it's likely going to be slim pickings from here on out.
#612
Posted 28 February 2010 - 04:34 PM
Were these Winter Olympics the best ever?
James Pearce | 20:04 UK time, Sunday, 28 February 2010
http://www.bbc.co.uk...ympics_may.html
I was in Beijing, and I can assure you that you simply cannot compare the spectator experience there with the one here in Vancouver. Vancouver wins hands down.
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#613
Posted 28 February 2010 - 05:52 PM
^ The control of still iamges seems lame. I can see they need to control video to protect the broadcasters, but ordinary pix?
Fugger, did my taxes pick up the bill for your "volunteering"?
In what sense? I had to burn holidays to volunteer, but I wasn't subsidezed at all: not like provincial government employees.
#614
Posted 28 February 2010 - 05:57 PM
Reuters
http://www.reuters.c...type=sportsNews [...]
#615
Posted 28 February 2010 - 06:56 PM
I think we are a world power in potash production. #2 or #3 in diamonds. Pretty high up in petroleum reserves if we could only get to it easy.
BC is a world power in pot production!
#616
Posted 28 February 2010 - 07:54 PM
Many drivers honking, waving flags out of windows.
I feel slightly left out not being able to make it to Vancouver, but I really felt I was a part of it this afternoon.
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The mime at the beginning the closing ceremonies was perfection. The line-up of musical artists they have at the end is close to hell.
#617
Posted 28 February 2010 - 08:02 PM
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#618
Posted 28 February 2010 - 08:03 PM
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#619
Posted 28 February 2010 - 08:58 PM
Secondly, who the hell is Marie-Mai, other than the hottest Quebec star I've never heard of before tonight...
Thirdly, Crosby's goal was pretty nice, he did all the work twice before he got the puck back. Good stuff. Douglas street had lots of honking horns a half hour after the win.
#620
Posted 28 February 2010 - 09:12 PM
If anything, Vancouver 2010 has shown us that Canadians want to come together to celebrate. Displays of patriotism in Vancouver were stronger and longer lasting than any Canada day I have seen and the Canadian spirit was stronger than ever.
Do you think there is any hope for for keeping even a fraction of that alive now that the games are gone? Will communities work together to bring more outdoor arts and culture events to us?
Where do we go from here?
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