Winter Olympics Dept: We'd been waiting for the Olympic Games, somewhat nervously, for years. And when they finally arrived, many of us were still ambivalent about what we'd been told would be a landmark event in our civic history, according to Vancouver Sun. Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died when he crashed during a training run on the day of the opening ceremony. There was a glitch in the lighting of the cauldron. Anarchist protesters briefly ran riot downtown. The lack of snow at Cypress Mountain forced cancellation of tickets. Even worse: the British media was spinning a narrative of a failed Olympics and tHE 2010 WINTER OLYMPICS Some of our worst fears seemed confirmed when the Olympics got off to a rough start. As
reported in the news.
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