{"id":2267,"date":"2010-02-28T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T10:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2010-02-28T06:36:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T10:36:53","slug":"olympicalinitialurescending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"Olympicalinitialurescending"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span>‘ve only sporadically followed the Olympic games: most of the time fellow travelers or colleagues kept me up-to-date about the latests. Since there’s only one day left or so, a summary of things that caught the eye.\n<\/p>\n

First of all, before the games officially opened there was the luge accident involving a Georgian athlete<\/a>. The day after the accident, the authorities reported that the athlete was at fault. However, from what I gathered, is that for the lugers’ safety, the IOC decided to slightly change the track (or rather, change the starting positions for lugers).\n<\/p>\n

The talk in Canada, is of course, the Hockey final which puts Canada against the US<\/a>. Earlier in the Games, the two countries also played against each other and the Canadians lost.\n<\/p>\n

There was this weird incident in speedskating (the 10 kilometers for males): the favourite for this distance lost his medal because of an error switching lanes<\/a>, which was blamed on the trainer who also happened to be a professional speedskater back in the past. That said, the US press core felt slightly vindicated<\/a> (too bad that the IOC has been serving take-down notices for this particular video).\n<\/p>\n

And I guess the most stunning report in the media came from the CBC, which dryly reported that ‘an emergency shipment of condoms’<\/a> was headed for Vancouver. Because, if you won a gold medal (or if you didn’t) you should still consider doing it safely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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