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International Olympic Committee

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Four Reasons Why Vancouver's Winter Olympics are the Worst Ever

    NBC fail-whale.​Vancouver's Winter Olympics got off to a bad start. And things have only gotten worse. A month before opening ceremonies, unseasonably warm weather forced the closure of ski slopes so that race officials could preserve what little snow was already on the ground. Since then, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 16, 2009

    Cal Anderson Park Kickball

    NBC fail-whale.​Vancouver's Winter Olympics got off to a bad start. And things have only gotten worse. A month before opening ceremonies, unseasonably warm weather forced the closure of ski slopes so that race officials could preserve what little snow was already on the ground. Since then, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 19, 2009

    Olympic Day Means Free Swimming!

    Greg Nickels just proclaimed next Tuesday "Olympic Day," wherein we commemorate the founding of the modern Olympic games. You see, on June 23, 1894, Baron Pierre de Coubertin convened the first meeting of the International Olympic Committee at the Sorbonne in Paris. (The Sorbonne, incidentally, wa ... More >>

  • News

    October 17, 2007

    Shoulder Pads, Pom-Poms, and the Angry Inch

    Washington’s high-school sports regulators find themselves in a transgender bind.

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    Fear and Loathing at the Olympics

    A final look at 14 days in Salt Lake.

  • News

    November 21, 2001

    Fame riders

    Local snowboard grrrls turn from slaloms to spotlights.

  • News

    September 13, 2000

    A sporting chance

    Local snowboard grrrls turn from slaloms to spotlights.

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Gender warriors

    Butch dykes are overthrowing gender categories.

  • Diversions

    January 26, 2000

    Proposed charter schools

    Butch dykes are overthrowing gender categories.

  • News

    August 19, 1998

    Signing away

    Butch dykes are overthrowing gender categories.

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