Good play of words, eh?
I just found it and wanted to share.
ANTaR, Indigenous rights group, claims that they merely want to get a share of the Commonwealth Games spotlight as they present to the rest of the population their cause, not because that they’re against the Games.
Watch the video clip here.
Tags: ANTar, Commonwealth Games, Commonwealth_Games, […]
Ian Thorpe hasn’t been beaten in the 400m freestyle for the past two Commonwealth Games, and even in the Sydney and Athens Olympics. He was forced to withdraw from the Games due to illness, Tuesday of last week.
The 2 notable absentees in the Australian Team for the Swimming event are Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett. […]
Curling fans were “treated” to an unexpected visitor…visitors?…during Friday’s bronze medal match. John MacDougall/Getty Images
I was watching this game live on TV (and Live Blogging) and there was no mention of this streaker. Around the ‘net .. sites are reporting the initial “sighting” from the AP news item… but I kept wondering … was […]
It will be an exciting day for Canada because by the end of the day .. Canada will have reached a historic 20 Medals here at the 2006 Winter Olympics, thanks to Brad Gushue and the rest of Team Canada Men’s Curling Team.
I thought I would refresh the Canadians out there reading this post, on […]
Follow up #4 to a previous post ..
The president of the Austrian ski federation revealed that two athletes “may have used illegal methods” at the Torino Olympic Winter Games.
Federation president Peter Schroecksnadel told reporters Tuesday that Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottman, both of whom fled Italy when the team’s Olympic residences were raided […]
Official News from Torino Website .. for those of you actually following the scheduled timetable of events ..
Feb 20 2006
SESTRIERE, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The start times of Monday’s two Alpine ski races at the Turin Olympics have been put back to allow workers to clear snow from the pistes, organisers said.
Heavy snow […]
Another Follow up ==> to my second post HERE …
Last Updated: Sun Feb 19 19:58:21 EST 2006
CBC Sports
Walter Mayer, the man whose appearance at the Torino Winter Olympic Games set off a raid by Italian police on the Austrian nordic ski team, has been taken into custody by Italian police after he allegedly […]
Follow up => to my previous post … Blame the police?
Italian law enforcement authorities raided the Olympic residences of Austria’s biathlon and cross-country teams early Sunday, but found no evidence of doping. It marked the first anti-doping police raid on athletes in Olympic history.
…….”They checked every drink, every food, and they […]
The result is in from Canada’s protest file on Thursday .. here’s the full news report about the decision :(
A formal complaint filed by the Canadian Olympic Committee over the finish of the women’s 500-metre short-track speed skating final has been denied.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed the protest following a hearing held […]
According to the news …
Italian law enforcement authorities raided the residences of some staff members of the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams early Sunday morning, apparently searching for banned substances, said two separate news reports.
The International Olympic Committee also confirmed it has conducted out-of-competition doping tests on “a number of Austrian cross-country and biathlon […]
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