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• The Official Phone of the 2010 Winter Olympics? The Samsung OMNIA II

  
  Technology you can trust here... — Authority: 154
  http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/…9/30/c4209.html “Bell and Samsung today announced the exclusive availability of the Samsung OMNIA II touchscreen smartphone - the Official Mobile Device of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games - to operate on Bell Mobility’s all-new HSPA network in November. The Samsung ...
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• YOG Wants You To Go Green!

  
  The UrbanWire — Authority: 128
  Used coke cans, green grass, and the smell of compost don’t quite equate to the Youth Olympic Games (YOG). But on Oct 31, The Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organising Committee (SYOGOC) rallied Singaporeans together, to drum up awareness for a greener environment and a greener YOG. CAN! Green , in ...
  12 hours ago

• Pandemic? What pandemic?

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 510
  Interesting dynamic that looks to be shaping up in the early goings as the Olympic torch relay has begun. It appears that we will be treated to a parade of Harper cabinet ministers participating in the torch relay events. In the midst of the H1N1 outbreak, even the Health Minister is somehow finding the time to go ...
  14 hours ago

• Cohen Withdraws From Skate America

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Sasha Cohen, the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, said she was “very disappointed” about the latest setback to her 2010 Olympic hopes.
  16 hours ago

• American Ex-Pat View Of The Fall of the Wall

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  Below is a note sent to me today by Bill Dawson, one of my regular readers in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of the German History Blog , and offered this picture, note and other resources dedicated to this anniversary of an extraordinary day 20 years ago. The fall of the Berlin Wall. As he mentions below, it is ...
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• Olympic Games is an expensive and phony yawn

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 490
  Canadas Robyn Perry carries the Flame towards the Olympic Cauldron. Source: Library and Archives Canada. Liberals complain about Olympic Torch favouritism In one week the Liberals have turned on the Opposition heat and sent the Conservatives underground. The latest complaint about favoritism in sending the Olympic ...
  23 hours ago

• Reults Are In … Chicago Should NOT Have Been A Potential Olympic Site!

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 457
  American Conservative Daily asked its readers, “Do you think that Chicago, with its high crime and murder rate, was a good choice to even nominate as a host city for an Olympic Games?” The results were lopsided and predictable. 90% of visitors said, “No.” Just 6% said, “Yes,” and 4% had, “No Opinon.” ...
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• Sports Briefing | Winter Sports: Reutter Prevails; Ohno Fails to Qualify

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  The American Katherine Reutter won the women’s 1,500 meters at a short-track speedskating World Cup event in Montreal.
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• Not Me! … Francis has no interest in JAAA head coach slot - Jamaica Gleaner

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  Daily Nation Not Me! … Francis has no interest in JAAA head coach slot Jamaica Gleaner Francis, who was part of Jamaicas coaching team for the 2001 IAAF World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and the 2004 … Bolts coach Mills resigns as head of ...
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• Sports Briefing | Winter Sports: Olympic Ticket Sales Postponed

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Technical problems hit the ticket Web site and prevented the sale of any of the 100,000 tickets that were to become available Saturday afternoon.
  2 days ago

• Roundup: Weir Slows, Losing NHK Title to Joubert

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Brian Joubert of France won the NHK Trophy on Saturday in Nagano, Japan, earning his first Grand Prix title of the season with a strong performance in the free skate.
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Asia Cast for Saturday 7th November

  
  Asia Cast — Authority: 125
  The company operating Beijings Birds Nest stadium has handed the venue over to the state amid falling revenues and mounting running costs. (By Edwin Lee/Flick) In this Bulletin… - Crops fail in southern China as drought continues; - Beijing’s long reaching censorship affects Bangladesh gallery; and - Philippine ...
  2 days ago

• VSU Student to Carry Torch at Olympic Games - Valdosta State University

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  University of Central Florida VSU Student to Carry Torch at Olympic Games Valdosta State University VALDOSTA — Green teen Crystal Hardy was chosen by the Coca-Cola Co. to carry the Olympic torch at the upcoming Winter Games in Calgary, Canada, … Family physician from Kosciusko ...
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• Crosby will carry the Olympic Torch in Halifax

  
  Greece Travel Blog — Authority: 112
  www.GreeceTravelBlog.comOn November 18th, Sidney Crosby will carry the Olympic Torch in Halifax, Nova Scotia, his home province.Crosby will travel back home for the Torch Relay the day before the Penguins face the Ottawa Senators on November 19th in Ottawa. Crosby is expected to lead the Canadian team in the 2010 ...
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• Harbin To Host Humanoid Robot Olympics

  
  China Bystander — Authority: 123
  The sporting calendar is becoming crowded for humanoid robots. There is already not one but two football World Cups and a RoboGames. Now China is adding an Olympic games. Harbin will host these next June with more than 100 universities from 20 countries expected to send entrants in 16 events from athletics to the ...
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• Kelowna rinks hot on the Olympic trail - Abbotsford News

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 144
  Kelowna rinks hot on the Olympic trail - Abbotsford News Kelly Scott came within a hair of representing Canada at the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Four years later, the Kelowna rink is back for another crack at the world’s biggest curling spectacle. Scott, Jeanna Schraeder, Sasha Carter, and Source: ...
  3 days ago

• Toronto finally wins something, and Vanoc band-aids the paramedics issue

  
  Inside the 2010 Olympics — Authority: 118
  Astute readers will notice that this place has been gathering dust for the last week; I came back a week ago on the same inexorably long flight as the flame, and after the shenanigans in Victoria took a few days off. Im backlogged with a number of...( read more )
  3 days ago

• Miss England quits after nightclub clash

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 982
  Miss England, Rachel Christie, has relinquished her crown after being arrested on suspicion of a nightclub assault involving another beauty queen that was allegedly sparked by a row over a TV Gladiator. A statement from the Miss England organisers said Christie, 21, a niece of the sprinter Linford Christie, wanted to ...
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• Athletics South Africa Suspended by Governing Body

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  South Africa’s Olympic governing body has suspended Athletics South Africa in the fallout over Caster Semenya’s gender tests.
  3 days ago

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