Tweet Once viewed as the poor cousin of its mighty Olympic relative, the Paralympics, which begin a week from tomorrow in Vancouver, are poised to attract more television viewers, sponsors and athletes than ever. More than that, the Paralympics, which will be televised nationally for the first time, are creating a die-hard fan base, especially [...]

Tweet With a crowd anticipated at perhaps 200,000 roaming the city’s streets, some of them fans of the archrival Americans, officials here ordered downtown beer and liquor stores to close early. They had done the same on Saturday night when the hordes drawn here by the Olympics and the unseasonably warm weather made passage impossible [...]

Tweet Organizers of the Vancouver Games have made it a little easier for visitors to take up-close pictures of the Olympic cauldron. Workers removed a section of chain-link fence around the flame Saturday and replaced it with Plexiglas to allow a clearer view from ground level. Fencing remains on top on the Plexiglas starting about [...]

Tweet The Olympic transportation system got off to a rocky start at the Vancouver Games, with officials scrambling to keep spectators moving. But the transit problems – a contentious issue at Olympics past – appeared to be getting smoothed out Monday, the third full day of competition and the first real business day for Vancouverites. [...]

Tweet The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili of Republic of Georgia, just hours before the opening ceremonies at the Vancouver Games, cast a somber mood over the sliding sports venue in Whistler and throughout the Olympic community. The 21-year-old luger, traveling about 90 mph, flew off the track near the end of a training run, hit [...]

Tweet The Winter Olympics kick off in Vancouver, B.C. Friday, but not everyone is thrilled about the spectacle. Large groups of protestors are expected to demonstrate in the downtown area during the Games, but Chris Shaw, professor from the University of British Columbia who teaches in the medical department, expects the event to run smoothly [...]

Tweet The Olympic torch will spend the day on Vancouver‘s north shore today, receiving aboriginal blessings by two First Nations communities with official ties to the Games. The relay leaves Richmond to begin the day on Bowen Island, just off the Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal northwest of Vancouver. As it makes its way through North [...]

Tweet Unusually warm weather and a lack of snow less than a week before the start of the Vancouver Olympics have caused havoc with the training schedule at Cypress Mountain, site of the snowboarding and freestyle skiing. Games organizers (VANOC) said on Saturday they decided to cut training days for snowboarders competing in the halfpipe [...]

Tweet The Vancouver 2010 flame approaches Whistler with 8 days to go until the Olympic Games. Yesterday highlights include the Vancouver Olympic torch relay traveling across Vancouver Island as it made its way through 5 towns, including two First Nation reserves. Today, the torch relay departs Powell River and heads southeast through the towns of [...]