VANCOUVER — In the run-up to the 1984 Summer Games in Los Angeles, several female runners launched a court challenge against Olympic officials in the United States and abroad, claiming the decision not to include women’s 5,000- and 10,000-metre Continue ..

Douglas MacArthur was a fellow who apparently was born to be a leader of men. His grandfather, Arthur MacArthur Sr., a jurist in Milwaukee, and onetime governor of Wisconsin (briefly), was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Continue ..

As a somewhat surprising double bronze medallist in alpine skiing at the Calgary Olympics in 1988, Edmonton-born, Banff-raised Karen Percy coolly handled the pressure of a hometown Games. So it’s no surprise that when she’s asked about the Alpine Continue ..

from H1N1 _ being so high you couldn’t operate the games,” he said. Even so, swine flu shots when volunteers pick up their uniforms in December. Vancouver organizers and the International Olympic Committee have also recommended to all Continue ..

Dave Zirin : A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics. Today, Tiger Woods, the famous, wealthy and most PR-conscious athlete on earth Continue ..

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