Share Recently my friend Rattan Mall of the Indo Canadian Voice phoned me up to ask me what kind of responses the Chinese community has over the lack of multicultural representation in the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympic. I told him, other than what Mr Tung Chan of SUCCESS told the Vancouver [...]
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Share THE Time magazine carries a piece of commentary this week titled “Why Canada Wants to Kick Olympic Butt“. Watch out, world. They are coming after you, on skeleton sleds, speed skates and, oh yeah, while wielding big old curling brooms. They used to be the nice guys (and gals); now they’d rather leave you [...]
Share With the Winter Olympics just weeks away from opening, I was shocked at the narrow-sightedness or interpretation of snowboarding in an Globe and Mail article today, titled “Once out-of-place gymnasts, now halfpipe heroes: Chinese reach summit of snowboarding world”. When describing the Chinese snowboarding atheletes, one paragraph says: Their lack of English and their [...]
Share 2010 Olympic torch relay warms up frigid Yukon village THE CANADIAN PRESS OLD CROW, Yukon – The 2010 Olympic torch warmed up this frigid Arctic community Wednesday as it was carried into a town celebration on a dogsled. Residents of the Yukon village north of the Arctic Circle waved and smiled as the Olympic [...]
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Share This is IMPRESSIVE!!!! They deserve our highest respect for so successfully overcoming so much more difficulty in life. Go Canada Go! Canada has been a strong contender in Paralympic Games. In 2004 Athens, Team Canada won 28 gold, 19 silver, and 25 bronze medals. We were placed third in the medal rankings, behind China [...]
Share An article appears on Sydney Morning Herald reflects on how the western media have been handling the “chubby face, crooked teeth” incident. Hope we can see more of these self-reflections from the western media. (Related CIV discussion here.) The title of the story is: Western media shows its ugly face Here’s an excerpt (full [...]
Share While Beijing might have used one girl to mime another to sing on the Olympic opening ceremony, Sydney used an entire orchestra to mime for another on stage during the 2000 Olympic’s opening show. Australia’s newspaper The Age uncovered this shocking news, and yet, the musicians asked to sign “confidentiality agreement” weren’t allowed to [...]
Share Bloomberg – A Chinese Olympic gymnastics champion whose age is under investigation had her date of birth incorrectly registered at a tournament last year, leading to inaccurate reports of her age, Chinese officials said today. The International Olympic Committee this week asked the international gymnastics ruling body to probe the age of He Kexin [...]
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