Posts Tagged ‘Olympics’
UK police: Cops protected Olympics sites in riots (AP)
AP – British police revealed Tuesday that they sent officers to protect major shopping centers and the 2012 Olympics sites after intercepting phone and social network messages saying they were targets for rioters.
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Performing bear, star of 1980 Olympics, now lives in neglect
Katya has gone from an Olympic star to a cautionary tale. The 36-year-old motorcycle-riding bear that once captivated audiences at the 1980 Moscow Olympics has been living for two years stuffed inside a small rusty cage in an old bus parked outside St. Petersburg, the Associated Press reported.
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An euphoric end to a bittersweet Olympics (AP)
AP – They were the resilient Winter Games — beginning in shock, ending in euphoria.
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Romney attacked on flight from Vancouver Winter Olympics
Mitt Romney is used to politicians taking shots at him, but was caught off guard when a plane passenger took a swing.
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SPEED KILLS IN OLYMPICS
In the end, it wasn’t the halfpipe or the freestyle aerials that turned the Winter Olympics into a gallows. It was a slippery-sloped luge track, designed by someone who didn’t know the sport and nurtured by a system that rewards outrageous risk-taking.
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Despite luge death, Olympics’ opening ceremony goes on (AP)
AP – The festive mood, and the opening act of a snowboarder’s leap through giant Olympic rings, contrasted sharply with the grief that befell the games earlier in the day when luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a horrific crash.
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Olympics 2010 opening ceremonies festive despite luger Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death
Despite the training-run death earlier in the day of a luger from the country of Georgia, the Olympics’ opening ceremonies were launched Friday night with a jubilant countdown by the crowd filling BC Place Stadium.
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