Flutterby™! : The Olympics are coming. Run!

Because of the re-shuffling, we now get the Olympics every two years. The only one that really has anything interesting, the Winter Olympics, is coming up in a few weeks. I've become disgusted enough with the process that is the IOC that I'll be doing my best to ignore it. But a little pointing and scoffing now can't hurt, right?

At The Literary Review of Canada, athlete Laura Robinson talks about some of the shames of the International Olympic Committee.

... The BCCLA sees this as a major victory, but is also asking VANOC to rescind a clause in its contract with artists that stipulates that the artist must “refrain from making any negative or derogatory remarks respecting VANOC, the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the Olympic movement generally, Bell and/or other sponsors associated with VANOC.” In addition, the Writers Union of Canada has written to VANOC twice—first over the harassment of Shaw and then, in December, over the detention and interrogation of U.S. writer Amy Goodman at the Canadian border on her way to do a reading at the Vancouver Public Library.

In other news, this year's Winter Olympics promises to be the greenest ever... no, silly, it's not like they're being environmentally responsible, they've got a lack of snow. And the ski resort at which the downhill races are to be held is about to be auctioned off.

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