Olympic Winter Games News

“We are looking for results. We are not just hoping, we are expecting to get results.”

Badminton Winter Sports Sunday, 11 November 2007, 06:47 GMT Brit ski chief predicts success By Anna Thompson Britain's skiers and snowboarders are ready to challenge for World Cup podiums this season, according ... via BBC News

“We have been shuttling three times between China and the United States in the latest one-month time for program fabrication. Two new programs have already been there and one of them is called 'feeling good' in a style of modern dance”

In spite of staying away from national team, triple pairs skating world champion Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo are calculating a comeback charge to the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. via China Daily

“It has 22-foot walls, and while it will be reserved at times for competitions and training, over the season there will be opportunities for the public to use the pipe.”

All they need now is snow! A massive $40 million renovation project is underway at Cypress Mountain, thanks in part to the 2010 Winter Olympics. via News 1130

“From a customer perspective, the voice quality and the overall network integration have performed extremely well”

Associate Editor, Internet Telephony magazine A tremendous amount of planning goes into even making a bid to host the Olympic Games, from the venues, to accommodations, to travel, to technology. via TMCnet

“Since I have been in my chair I look at what I can do and not my disability”

NOTHING is impossible was the inspirational message from a two-time world champion and Olympic silver medallist to a group of disabled Moray sportsmen and women. via The Northern Scot

Media Advisory - Unconventional sports enthusiasts compete for a chance to pitch the next Olympic sport Semi-finalists in Petro-Canada's Dream Big contest will be pulling out all the stops TODAY during a live ... via Canada NewsWire

“The Olympics opening ceremony is organized by a team of four "stars”

ASK's joint venture: ASK TongFang has been selected to manufacture the contactless inlays for the 12.2 million RFID tickets for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. via Contactless News

“Environmental issues touch not only the participants in a cycling event, but also the spectators and the organizers”

The International Cycling Union participated in the seventh World Conference on Sport and the Environment which took place in Beijing, China, from 25th to 27th October. via Pedal

“If there's one, there might as well be two. "There's not going to be three”

Defenceman Becky Kellar returns to the Canadian women's hockey team with a second child in tow. via CFRB

“Tom is highly knowledgeable of the game. He's really a team player and has a true passion for the sport”

When 1997 Wausau West High School graduate Tom O'Connor throws stones, he receives national recognition. via Wausau Daily Herald

“There is nothing better than cradling a 10-pound ball in your hands.”

Lachlan Cameron's acrobatics on his flatland bike won first place at the Petro Canada Dream Big Contest in Toronto yesterday, where sports enthusiasts pitched the events they feel should be added to the Olympic ... via Toronto Sun

“I was excited to be at Olympics and I made myself into a different skater”

There are so many ups and downs in figure skating, and Miki Ando knows about all of them. via Asbury Park Press Online

NEW YORK -- I had a bike stolen the other day. It was an '80s vintage 10-speed that I salvaged off a scrap heap a few years ago for riding around Manhattan. via Reno Gazette-Journal

“We want to do everything possible to have a clean games.”

VANCOUVER, British Columbia : More doping tests will be conducted at the 2010 Winter Olympics than at the 2006 Turin Games, and the search for cheats will extend into the athletes' village, training centers and ... via International Herald Tribune

“It was not a well-developed, complex criminal operation, and its relationship to hockey and the National Hockey League was at best tangential”

Rick Tocchet's involvement in a gambling ring wasn't as deep as initial reports suggested, but damaging enough to keep the Phoenix Coyotes' assistant coach out of the NHL for at least a few more months.

Tocchet, sentenced in August to two years' probation after he pleaded guilty to promoting gambling and conspiracy to promote gambling, can't return to the NHL before next Feb. 7, commissioner Gary Bettman said Thursday.

The former star forward has been on an indefinite leave of absence since being charged in February 2006 and hoped to be granted immediate reinstatement. Read more

“The overall economic calculation that would have to be applied in having a rational assessment in the destruction of the land, the forfeiture of rights, and the collaboration, and all the rest of that...the net loss would exceed any kind of profit.”

American activist Ward Churchill came to Vancouver to highlight how First Nations are getting screwed by the Olympics, but some Natives disagree. via The Georgia Straight

The CTV-Rogers Olympic broadcasting consortium has appointed Rick Chisholm as its executive vice-president of broadcasting and Alon Marcovici as vice-president of digital media. via Canoe

“Personally speaking, I think it should be in the indoor games.”

The Asian Games are too big and some sports will have to go, the Olympic Council of Asia warned yesterday. via South China Morning Post