- In Turin during the 2006 Winter Olympics the Budweiser house was known as THE place to party. In Beijing, the Budweiser house — dubbed Club Bud — sits in the shadow of the Holland Heineken House at the sprawling National Agricultural Exhibition Center. The Holland Heineken House has been party central for the Dutch, drawing big, boisterous and very orange crowds.
The International Olympic Committee should punish Russia by moving the 2014 Winter Olympics out of Sochi, Russia, the co-chairs of the congressional House Georgia Caucus said.
A massive rock slide has severed the only direct highway between Vancouver and the famed resort town of Whistler, both venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
A lawyer says police in the Russian city of Sochi have arrested a member of a religious community for defying orders to leave land intended for the 2014 Winter Olympics facilities.
Organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver unveiled plans Monday to create the longest torch relay across one nation in the history of the Olympics.
The 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin posted a small deficit, and the IOC wants a clear picture from London organizers of the rising infrastructure costs for the 2012 Summer Games.
Russian biathlon star Olga Pyleva was thrown out of the Turin Games and stripped of her silver medal Thursday for doping, the first athlete caught in the tightest drug net in Winter Olympics history.
Michelle Kwan won't be on the ice, and she won't be behind a microphone either. Soon after an injured Kwan bowed out of the games, NBC courted the athlete they had banked on being its biggest draw, hoping to lure her into the broadcast booth.
NHLSarok, a hockey blog based in Slovakia, has posted three videos on YouTube from the now-legendary women's ice hockey Olympic qualifier that saw Slovakia squeak out an 82-0 victory over Bulgaria. (With an enormous thanks to our friends at The Two-Line Pass for the tip.)
I just found the Vancouver mascots for the 2010 winter Olympics. The mascots include Sumi, a thunder eagle, Miga, a sea bear, and Quatichi - a sasquatch.....
International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Thursday that allowing women ski jumpers into the 2010 Winter Olympics would dilute the medals given to others.
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Thanks to our Earth Hugs on 7.7.07 and 7/17, "the Earth temperature slightly lowered, and the oceans were re-energized, which will continue if we continue," say many Saints / Holy Ones / Ascended Masters / Seers / Star Nations, depending on your faith, backed by our intuition.
Putin attends IOC meeting in Guatamala to help push Russia's bid for the Winter 2014 olympics into the Winners Circle.
Despite play that elicits passionate screams of "Hurry Hard…h-a-r-der!….harder!…faster!," it has taken almost an ice age for curling to get traditional sports fans' rocks off.
If you're a hockey fan, you might know that the NHL All-Star Game is being played tonight. If you're a hockey fan with DirecTV and knew to purchase the extra channel, VS, in its selective lineup, you get to watch the game, so long as you're not an American Idol fan as well.
North and South Korea are joining forces to secure the 2014 Winter Olympics after both sides reached an unprecedented joint agreement to back the bid of South Korean city Pyeongchang, officials said on Friday.
When Stephen Webber and his wife put their Vancouver-area townhouse up for sale in September, they expected to close a deal within a month. After several open houses, nearly a dozen private showings and two price cuts, they're still waiting.
Bode Miller didn't win any medals at the Olympics - and didn't seem too upset about this. As Chuck Klosterman writes, Bode's almost adversial relationship with winning made us all angry; he became easy to dislike.
The 2006 Winter Olympics are closed. It was a carnival with tight security although one protester managed to break his way onto the stage. For full coverage see the BBC's article
For the first time in olympic history, the U.S.A. mens curling team won a metal in curling!
Every Olympics I get excited when I read about the athletes who are Americas best shot at winning medals. It was around the opening ceremonies when I started to see news about Bode Miller and I thought he would be the Michael Phelps of the winter games.
Overview of the technology and logistics that goes into making the winter olympics happen. Very interesting and well written.
"And Jacques Jock finishes a respectable eighth place … a valiant effort and Jock's time is a new personal best. He's got to be pleased about this!" a CBC sportscaster exclaims. We hear this time and time again during the Olympics.
PAIN By Mike Dojc Abbreviated Version Published in the February Issue of Bell T.V. Magazine
Call me closed-minded. Call me un-American. Call me anything, but please don't call me an Olympics fan.
Slider Shelley Rudman raced to a silver medal - Britain's first at the 2006 Winter Olympics - in the women's Olympic skeleton on Thursday.
Dale Begg-Smith, a 21 year old multi-millionaire native of Vancouver (founder of a web pop-up ad company - hence his nickname), has become Australia's third gold-medal winner at the Winter Olympics.
There were some eye-opening remarks from Bryant Gumbel on the most recent episode of HBO's Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel. According to a transcript posted by a television columnist named Seth Frelich, Gumbel said the following in his closing monologue last week (emphasis mine):
"In a recent SportsNation poll, 47 percent of voters said they didn't watch any Olympics coverage this past weekend. Not even the opening ceremony!"