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man this is bull.... i'm just gonna torrent the videos after they happen... just spent an hour trying to stream the video online with no success... and the websites i found with live coverage don't allow connections from US ip address....
it's on NBC right now The countries are entering there up to "C".
My wife thinks Gretzky will light the torch, I bet her Not. I'm hoping for a native Canadian!
Damn.. the audio is delayed on my end. Was that him hitting the pillar? Damn... sucks so bad. They were saying that ppl were reaching 97mph on that track.
@mandino
Yes... Nelly Furtado has got some great curves.
The modern Olympics have a long history of racism, from its early founding members (i.e., Pierre de Coubertin, a French Baron who advocated sports as a means of strengthening colonialism) to recent IOC presidents. The 1936 Berlin Olympics empowered Hitler’s Nazi regime. Both the 1988 Seoul and 2008 Beijing Summer Games helped legitimize authoritarian regimes in Asia. The 1968 Mexico City Olympics (where over 300 student protesters were massacred by soldiers, days before the Olympics began) also helped legitimize state terror. IOC President Avery Brundage, an infamous US racist and Nazi sympathizer, didn’t even acknowledge the massacre. But when two Black US athletes raised their fists in a Black power salute on the medal podium, he had them immediately stripped of their medals and ejected from the Games! Another well-known fascist IOC president was Juan Antonio Samaranch (IOC president from 1980-2001), a former government official in Franco’s fascist regime in Spain.
http://www.no2010.com/node/18
FAQ: What's wrong with Olympic sports?
Sports and physical health are a positive aspect of any society. The Olympic industry uses sports and athletes as commodities to market corporate products and services. Governments use Olympic games to unite their populations behind nationalist symbols, to impose greater social control, and to attract corporate investment. Despite claims that Olympics are not 'political', they have devastating social and ecological impacts that cannot be ignored and which must be challenged.
http://www.no2010.com/node/336
gregb responding to a comment by mandingo
02.14.10 - 12:32 pm
Me and 2 of my buddies are driving up to Vancouver for the start of the Olympics. It would mark the first time any of us has ever attended an Olympics event and it gives us a great reason to go road tripping.