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Vancouver’s Olympic Village Meltdown

By ⋅ January 14, 2009 ⋅ Email this post Email this post ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

It appears there is quite a controversy brewing in Vancouver over the construction of an athlete’s village for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The Seattle Times provides a succinct overview of what is going down here. It would appear that current economic conditions have left the village’s developers, and the city, in a financial bind.

Here’s hoping they get things worked out.

Discussion

  1. I would imagine that they have to have an athletes village in place by a certain date or else the IOC will poop all over the Vancouver Olympics planning people. Not literally one hopes.

    Posted by josh | January 15, 2009, 9:20 am

  2. I for one was hoping for a lot of pooping.

    Posted by Adam | January 15, 2009, 10:39 am

  3. There are a lot of people who are very, very angry about this.

    It’s a shame really… mars the Olympics, which I’m incredibly excited about.

    Mismanagement, mismanagement, mismanagement!

    Posted by VancityAllie | January 15, 2009, 7:36 pm

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