Archive for January, 2009

No Games Chicago Forms Against Olympics (Chicago Public Radio)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
People who oppose Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics in Chicago are hosting a forum Saturday that highlights problems of other host cities.

Local Special Olympics results (The Sentinel)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Pennsylvania Special Olympics Area M has announced the results of its 25th annual invitational ski race competition held at Ski Roundtop on Thursday.

Putin says 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics on track (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
SOCHI/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics secured a $460 million (316 million pound) corporate sponsorship deal on Saturday and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the resort town would be ready to stage the games on time.

Russian PM Putin says Sochi Olympics on track (Reuters via Yahoo! News)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said the Russian resort of Sochi would be ready to stage the Winter Olympics in 2014 despite the economic slowdown.

FAS WON’T INTERFERE WITH OLYMPICS (Sporting Life)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
The Football Associations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have been urged not to punish any player who chooses to accept a call-up to the Great Britain team for the 2012 Olympics.

Winter Olympics | VANOC increases budget for 2010 (Seattle Times)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
The organizing committee for the 2010 Winter Olympics in British Columbia increased its budget and cut spending to address rising costs...

Special Olympics press forward despite downturn (The Olympian)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Two years ago, organizers with the Special Olympics World Winter Games hoped to raise at least $23 million in cash donations, hire a staff of around 100 people and bring as many as 3,000 athletes to Boise for the international event. Analysts with the Idaho Department of Commerce said the games could bring $42 million to the state.

Local Special Olympics results (The Sentinel)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Pennsylvania Special Olympics Area M has announced the results of its 25th annual invitational ski race competition held at Ski Roundtop on Thursday.

Olympics: 2010 budget revised to face global economic crisis (Channel NewsAsia)

Saturday, January 31st, 2009
VANCOUVER, Canada: The budget for the 2010 Winter Olympics has been revised to cope with the global economic crisis to C$1.76 billion (US$1.43 billion), up from C$1.63 billion (C$1.32 billion), organisers announced Friday.

Putin Says Crisis Won’t Slow Preparations for 2014 Olympics (Bloomberg)

Friday, January 30th, 2009
Jan. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said preparations for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi are on schedule, even as his country faces its worst economic crisis in a decade.