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Winter Olympics on slippery slope after Vancouver crackdown on homeless

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Lucy Hyslop - Feb. 04 (News Report) - Oversized neon Olympic rings illuminate Vancouver harbour while a giant mural of a snowboarder mid-trick welcomes visitors to the airport. In the city centre, a sleek steel-and-glass Olympic clock is counting down to next month's winter games.

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Olympia-Entscheid: Republikaner feiern Obamas Chicago-Flop - SPIEGEL ONLINE - Nachrichten - Sport

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Der Spiegel - By Gregor Peter Schmitz - Oct. 02 (News Report) - Er flog extra zum Werbeauftritt nach Kopenhagen, umwarb IOC-Delegierte - alles vergebens. Die überraschend deutliche Olympia-Niederlage Chicagos ist für Barack Obama eine Blamage, für seine Gegner ein Geschenk. Im Fernsehen und Internet leben sie ihre Schadenfreude aus.

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A gold medal in repression

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vancouver Sun - By Daphne Bramham - Jul. 27 (Special Report) - There's a knock at the door. It's the police and they want to talk to you about your political affiliations. They go door to door asking neighbours about you. They call your family and co-workers and suggest that they might call your employer. You're driving down the street. Police stop you and, over the next 40 minutes, you are questioned and your foreign visitors are warned they need to carry their identification documents with them at all times. China? No, Vancouver. It's all part of the security shakedown before the 2010 Winter Olympics are held in what is supposedly one of the freest, most open and transparent democracies in the world.

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What's really inside those swimsuits?

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Mark Starr - May. 20 (News Report) - One evening about a decade ago, I dined with one of America’s top swimmers. When we were deep into our second bottle of wine, I asked the Olympic champion how many of the top American swimmers were likely using steroids. “Everybody except me,” was the sobering response.

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Slide in economy pinches sports

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Denver Post - By Anthony Cotton - Mar. 27 (Special Report) - "Everybody is adapting in different ways. The whole sport movement is trying to figure out how to operate more like businesses and yet keep their core sport values. Some are acting in ways similar to us, in which you make preventative measures, and others are just hoping to ride it out." (Last week, the USOC laid off 54 employees.)

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Study: China neutralizes global media

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Susan Moeller - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - How did media cover the Olympics? Overwhelmingly as a sporting event rather than as a political power game. Prior to the Olympics, there was much speculation that the global press would turn the games into an international anti-China campaign--after all there had been extensive coverage of the protests against China's human rights record during the global torch relay and of the rioting in Tibet.

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After Glow of Games, What Next for China?

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jim Yardley - Aug. 25 (News Analysis) - The elaborate closing ceremony that ended the Olympic Games on Sunday also ended nearly a decade in which the ruling Communist Party had made the Games an organizing principle in national life. Almost nothing has superseded the Olympics as a political priority in China.

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Going For Gold

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Link TV - Aug. 22 (News Analysis) - The Summer Beijing Olympics have led to an all out race for golden glory. U.S and Chinese media focus a lot of attention on the battle for the most gold medals. But there are other stories worldwide of good and bad sportsmanship, the power to put politics aside, and of those who may not have won first, but revel in the opportunity just to compete. SOURCES: NBC News, U.S.; ABC News, U.S.; CCTV, China; Deutsche Welle, Germany; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; FCI, Japan; South Asia Newsline, India; Russia Today, Russia; Tele 13, Chile

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Caught under a mountain of Olympic debt

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Scot Lehigh - Aug. 22 (Opinion) - While the Olympics may be bringing publicity to Beijing, the Games are not making the city rich, at least in the short run.

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NBC coverage gives a narrow view of China

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Robert Bianco - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Many journalists in China, including USA TODAY's Christine Brennan, have written about the sterile atmosphere on the Olympic Green in the first week caused by the Chinese government's aggressive security measures. That's something a viewer would have known only by omission. Gone were the Sydney pans of happy crowds, replaced by tight shots designed to hide their absence.

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No Permits, No Protests In Beijing's Special 'Pens'

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jill Drew, Ariana Eunjung Cha - Aug. 15 (News Report) - As the Olympic Games end their first week, there are no reports that anyone has used the "protest pens" set up in three Beijing parks for demonstrations sanctioned under Chinese law.

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Olympic repression and a gutless IOC

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - Aug. 15 (Editorial) - the breathtaking cynicism of the Chinese authorities in declaring zones in three parks open for public protests and then persecuting, detaining or expelling from Beijing those who applied for permission to use them is a clear breach of the promises made by China to help win the bid to host these Olympics back in 2001.

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Olympic Ritual and Religion, Hosted by a Religion-less State

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Religion Dispatches - By Lou Ruprecht - Aug. 11 (Opinion) - One of the little remarked aspects of the Modern Olympic Games is its explicit status as a religious revival. The founder, or "renovateur," of the Modern Olympic Games, Pierre de Coubertin, could not have been clearer about the religious valence of his revival. Not long after he first proposed the renewal of the ancient Greek games in modern international guise, he began referring to them as the religio athletae, though he was never able to say in any simple way who the god worshiped at the altar of his revival was supposed to be.

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