The Savvy Boomer

American calls IOC "Taliban of the Olympics"

On Friday, the BC Court of Appeal upheld the BC Supreme Court decision to deny women ski jumpers the right to be included in the 2010 Winter Olympics Games to be held in Vancouver.  It seems that none really qualified based on IOC's standards.  Something deep inside me says this is the wrong thing to happen in Canada, a country that prides itself when it comes to fighting discrimination.  American ski jumper Lindsay Van said:

"The Canadian court system is weak," Van added. "They can't even stand up to the IOC. [The IOC] can come in here and do whatever they want. That's scary. It's like the Taliban of the Olympics."

OUCH!!  Maybe a little over the top but then VANOC CEO John Furlong stuck his foot in his mouth when he said:

"These girls have tried very hard, they have put up a very good fight."

OUCH!! again.  John-they're women not girls.  It's men's and women's ski jumping, not boy's and girl's-oh wait maybe it's men's and girl's.  Ahhh, now I understand why they can't compete.

Keep'em coming VANOC.

It helped to be tech savvy to get 2010 winter Olympic tickets

I guess the 2010 Vancouver winter Olympics is going to give me some blogging material over the next few weeks.

Last week, it was the ticket fiasco which finally worked for a few people today.  I even managed to score a couple of speed skating tickets, ($410-for 2 hours of competition-what's elitist about that?) albeit I had about a dozen browser tabs open before one of them finally connected.  I feel badly for all those who are complaining on Twitter that they were waiting for hours, only to find most everything was sold out when they finally got in.  The successful ones seem to have used my method to get into the ticket room and when that information becomes public there are going to be a lot more pissed off people because VANOC said you shouldn't use multiple tabs or browsers (see below).  That just didn't make any sense to me so I ignored it and it worked fine. 

I'm writing this about 6 hours after they went on sale and there is still a wait to buy tickets even though they have posted on their website that there only a few singles left.