Nike unveiled as Vancouver 2010 sponsor
N ike Canada Corp. and the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) announced today that Nike has been named the Official Supplier of high performance sporting goods for the upcoming Games and introduced the highly anticipated Team Canada 2010 hockey jerseys. Nike, Hockey Canada, VANOC, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), and the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC) showcased the new Team Canada 2010 hockey jerseys at a news conference in Vancouver. “Nike has a long and proud history of supporting athletes and we’re very pleased by the opportunity to partner with the 2010 Winter Games,” said Maria Montaño general manager, Nike Canada Corp. “We are very proud to unveil the new Team Canada hockey jerseys that...
Women ski jumpers issue IOC plea
F emale ski jumpers have written to International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge in an effort to win inclusion to the Winter Olympics. Last month a Canadian court ruled against an appeal over a place at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. But after women’s boxing was cleared for the 2012 Olympics, the ski jumpers have made a personal plea to Rogge. The women are asking for one event in 2010 and point out that their male counterparts are afforded three. Ski jumping and Nordic combined - which includes both ski jumping and cross-country skiing - are the only Winter Olympic sports that don’t include women. Part of the reasoning for the IOC’s 2006 decision not to allow ski jumping in Vancouver was that the sport had not developed...
British skiing hit by cash crisis
B ritain’s top skier Chemmy Alcott believes her chance of winning an alpine ski medal at next year’s Winter Olympics is being severely hampered. Alcott is one of a number of snowsport athletes caught up in a funding crisis just six months before the start of the 2010 Games in Canada. SnowsportGB, the governing body for skiing and snowboarding in Britain, is £300,000 in debt. But acting chief executive Robin Kellen dismissed any threat of bankruptcy. He told BBC Sport a refinancing package to resolve the problem would be finalised in the next few days. He said overspends on a number of budgets over the last two years had not been controlled and had led to the deficit and the sacking of the previous chief executive, Mark Simmers. Kellen said:...
Vancouver 2010: Six Months Out
W ith the 2010 Winter Olympic Games still six months away, organizers are boasting their entire set of sporting venues is already completed - but a massive budget shortfall still threatens to rain on their parade. In just 79 days, the Olympic flame arrives from Greece to begin its cross-Canada odyssey. Tickets for most events are sold out, and local athletes are gearing up to compete on home soil. Meanwhile, organizers are preparing themselves for a slew of unexpected surprises leading up to February, 2010 — but one thing they don’t have to worry about is venues. “What really has given us an edge is the fact that we’ve got these structures built,” Vancouver Organizing Committee CEO John Furlong said. “We got the venues...
Women Ski Jumpers Appeal Set For November
J ust ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, a group of female ski jumpers will be in a British Columbia (B.C.) court in November to appeal a ruling that failed to overturn the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to exclude them from the 2010 Winter Games. The case will be heard in the B.C. Court of Appeal November 12 and 13, just three months before the Games officially begin February 12. A B.C. Supreme Court Justice ruled last month that the IOC is discriminating against women ski jumpers by keeping them out of the Games, but Justice Lauri Ann Fenlon said the court lacks the power to order the IOC to include the sport in the Vancouver Games. The Canadian Press reports the women were in court in April to argue that their exclusion...
Watchdog Files Complaint Against Vancouver 2010
C TV reports the Olympic watchdog group Impact on Community Coalition (IOCC), has filed a complaint with the United Nations Human Rights Council alleging that the Vancouver 2010 Games threaten free speech and could sour mass evictions. The group has asked the United Nations to send human rights observers to Vancouver to keep any eye on civil rights, reports CTV. IOCC spokesman Am Johan told a news conference Sunday, “in our view, both on terms of civil liberties and tenancy, Canada is not living up to adequate housing and basic democratic and civil liberties standards”. As an example, Johal said police in Vancouver have paid visits to the homes of Olympic activists and have increased the number of tickets they hand out - especially in the...
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