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WaPo – IOC failing in its responsibility to the Olympics, by Sally Jenkins

As the Vancouver Games come to a close, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge will call them a success. But it’s the IOC — so incubated in blue blazers, five-star accommodations, and shellfish buffets — that requires real assessment. Exactly what [...]

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Telegraph – Canadian women’s ice hockey team apologise for beer and cigars on ice The all-conquering Canadian women’s ice hockey team has apologised after players celebrated winning Olympic gold by quaffing champagne and beer, and smoking cigars, on the ice.

Victorious players emerged from the dressing room, still in their uniforms and with gold medals [...]

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National Post:

The Winter Games in particular are a hotbed of weirdness. You say that not enough women play hockey internationally to make it legitimate? How about the sport of nordic combined, in which participants both cross-country ski and ski jump? Are there leagues devoted to the pursuit of such an odd combination of [...]

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A golden (get it?!) oldie from Mark Steyn, from New Criterion, September, 2007:

The same networks which offer drearily parochial coverage of the Olympics to the point where you’d barely know there were any other countries competing except as exotic background extras in a Team USA victory parade insist after the commercial break that [...]

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I was about to make a crack yesterday that, apparently, nobody in the MSM has ever been near drugs or alcohol, because nobody got what Tiger Woods was doing yesterday. It was obvious when he announced the press conference he’s in a 12 step program (and he even referenced it in his speech), because the [...]

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Italy’s common-sense legislation of the day (that was originally intended to be the title of this entry but I opted to go for the lame pun instead (standards, you know)):

Telegraph – Italy to jail people who set off avalanches Skiers and snowboarders who set off deadly avalanches in Italy could face imprisonment and hefty fines under [...]

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…Does this new outrage mean that feminists don’t think women should be allowed to play football?

NOW president Terry O’Neill said it glorified violence against women. “I am blown away at the celebration of the violence against women in it,” she said. “That’s what comes across to me even more strongly than the [...]

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And lookit what’s been published in the Washington Post: Tebow’s Super Bowl ad isn’t intolerant; its critics are

I’m pro-choice, and Tebow clearly is not. But based on what I’ve heard in the past week, I’ll take his side against the group-think, elitism and condescension of the “National Organization of Fewer and Fewer Women [...]

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This is awesome: BBC Sport – 2010 Winter Olympics Inuit Animation

It almost makes me wish I had cable so I could watch on the CBC instead of *spit* NBC *spit spit*.

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I was this close to sending an email to Fox News when we cancelled our cable that the only thing that kept me subscribing to cable was his show, and please don’t take it personally, etc etc.

The Corner – KLo: This Is Beautiful

from Brit Hume, via Christianity Today: [...]

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You know how people get about cricket…

The Corner – Mark Steyn: Come Fry with Me

In order to save the planet from global roasting, it seems entirely reasonable to ask Mr. and Mrs. Joe Peasant to subordinate their freedom of movement to an annual “carbon allowance” preventing them flying hither and yon and devastating [...]

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National Post – Symphony refuses to mime at Olympics

VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra refused an invitation to record music for the Vancouver 2010 opening ceremonies because VANOC wanted other musicians to “mime” the live performance. VSO conductor Bramwell Tovey was asked to conduct the recording session, but was told [...]

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Telegraph – Eritrean football team missing after match in Kenya

The twelve players are believed to be hiding somewhere in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, where there are tens of thousands who have fled Eritrea’s government.

Huh.

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I’ve been scrupulously avoiding this story because I find it so utterly, utterly sad. The day after Thanksgiving, at home, I was driving Peter and the bebe up to Menlo Park to do some shopping and, on Foothill, drove past the Stanford Golf Club and said, “Look! That’s where Tiger Woods used to go to [...]

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Telegraph – Olympics ‘biggest security challenge since WW2′

Hey man, the Blitz is still within living memory. Sign me up!

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