Vancouver View — Media Numbers; Apologies for Nazi Slur; Reward for Hockey Stick

Media Numbers Media outnumbered athletes by more than four times at the 2010 Winter Olympics. IOC media operations head Anthony Edgar said there were 12,365 accredited media personnel, including 2,803 written and photographic press, 2,540 host broadcasters (from Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver) and 7,296 rights holding broadcasters. The written and photographic press category included 1,636 [...]

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The View from Here: Tragedy Demands Legacy from Vancouver

There’s no way anybody could speculate that grief, not joy, would be the first emotion to sweep over the Vancouver Olympics. While I mused last week in my first column from Vancouver about what gripping stories might emerge from the 2010 Olympics, the death of an athlete was not one of them. Minutes after my [...]

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Op Ed: Let the Bailout Games Begin

Three years ago a business plan for the Vancouver Olympics predicted the Games would be recession-free. Oops! ATR Vancouver correspondent Bob Mackin has more on what the sour economy has meant to the 2010 Olympics in this Op Ed. This column originally appeared at Vancouver 24 on Jan. 11. Once upon a time, when Vancouver [...]

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