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- Tickets to 2010 Vancouver Games go on sale in October
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  Prepare to get screwed: Vancouver organizers will place the bulk of the 1.6 million tickets on sale in October, with a lottery through the Games' Web site, www.vancouver2010.com. But American fans won't be able to simply get in line online with Canadians. Those tickets, ranging in price from $25 for cross-country skiing to $1,100 for the opening ceremony, will be sold only to Canadian residents. Americans will need to pursue a separate procedure, purchasing through Jet Set Sports, the sole agency licensed to resell Vancouver 2010 tickets in America.
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- Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The Beijing Olympics have left the world's human rights groups frustrated and angry - convinced that China has been let off the hook for serious abuses, and adamant that future hosts like Russia must be held to a higher standard. Cheek, co-founder of a group of athletes known as Team Darfur, had his visa revoked by Chinese authorities hours before he was to embark for Beijing. Team Darfur athletes who are in Beijing have acceded to International Olympic Committee curbs on political comment, resulting in what Cheek called "massive suppression of any voice that the government doesn't want heard."
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- Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud
  Posted by Jeff from Yro.slashdot
  A new chapter in the ongoing controversy surrounding China's women's gymnastics team opened today, as search engine hacker stryde.hax found surviving copies of official registration documents issued by China's General Administration of Sport of China. The incriminating documents, expunged by censors from the official site and from Google's document cache, still appear in the document translation cache of Chinese search giant Baidu, here (1) and here (2), showing the age of one of China's gold medal winning gymnasts to be 14 instead of 16, the minimum age for competition presented on her government-issued passport. Now that official government documentation is available, how long will the IOC be able to keep a lid on this scandal?
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- Do You Carry Black or White Pebbles In Your Organic Pockets?
  Posted by vishal98 from Feeds.treehugger
  Image source: The White Pebble.Based on the belief that we carry black or white pebbles with us, depending on the choices we make in our lives (black pebbles represent self-focused, irresponsibl...
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- 5,200 Hunters Under Age 15 Licensed by Washington, One Shoots Hiker
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  As Skagit County prosecutors announced their intentions to file criminal charges against a 14-year-old boy who fatally shot a hiker when he mistook her for a bear, a leading state legislator is pushing for tougher restrictions on juvenile hunters.
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- GM Place to change name for 2010 Olympics
  Posted by Shemuses from CBC
  General Motors Place will get a new name stripped of corporate marks during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the organizing committee said Wednesday.
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- 2 Dutch climbers rescued from K-2
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  The Ministry of Tourism released a list of 11 climbers believed dead: three South Koreans, two Nepalis, two Pakistanis and mountaineers from France, Ireland, Serbia and Norway. At least two of them fell on their way up the mountain, before the avalanche.
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koroth comments on:
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

It’s not China so much as the IOC. The IOC apparently is uninterested in pursuing such issues, preferring to take the word of the Host.
The USSR/East Block countries did some interesting bending of the rules years back and very little happened to any of them.
So cheating will only be enforced against athletes who don’t have direct Government backing.

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10:22 am 8/24/08
koroth comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

Yeah, you’re right about that, but unlike other communist dictatorships China is allowing westernization and capitalism in at the edges. The USSR collapsed, and Venezuela is heading that way, because they didn’t allow it.
I think it will be interesting to see how that evolves, especially as illegal internet access starts to creep in around the edges.
It’s a wonder that there are still people in the west singing the virtues of communism. Some of them teach in and run our colleges and Universities.

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9:10 am 8/21/08
mg0314a comments on:
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

Site is down, I mirrored it here: http://mgraham.us/sports/2008%20Olympics/China/China.html

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2:08 am 8/21/08
jsmersh comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

Communist dictatorship suppresses dissent.
What’s the matter, you thought the Chinese government was nice?
Think of the most oppressive government action you can.
Then check to see if China has done it.
You’ll find it has.

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12:21 am 8/21/08
koroth comments on:
Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

Well, it’s China. Is anyone surprised by this?
I think that as time goes on China will find it increasing hard to keep that iron lock on society and still allow modernization. It will be interesting see see how that resolves.

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10:47 pm 8/20/08
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Rights groups bemoan lack of Beijing protests

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8:36 pm 8/20/08
thaimat comments on:
Hacker Uncovers Chinese Olympic Fraud

This is typical of how the IOC has bowed very low to China in every way, regarding these Olympics. From lax to a lack of, enforcement of even the mildest of prerequisites China agreed to in order to secure Beijing as the host city, to staying mum while China stops athletes from competing based on their politcal beliefs, the IOC have shown what they are really about: the money!

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8:35 pm 8/20/08

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