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The North American weekend box office had to fight off a continent-deep whiteout: another walloping snow storm on the East Coast, a high-rated Winter Olympics and hockey fever in Canada. Yet it looks to surpass last year's end-of-February count by about 7%. Regardless of snow...
And in the run-up to the Games, several countries complained that Canada limited competitors' access to the Whistler track for training, in an attempt to protect its home-turf advantage. The country has made no secret of its quest to top the medal tables at these events. The effort...
In April 2009, Van and nine other female jumpers sued the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) for violating the ban on gender discrimination in Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The British Columbia Supreme Court ruled that although the IOC's decision did qualify as gender discrimination, as an international...
Last year, nearly 100 women competed in FIS-sanctioned ski-jump competitions. There are at least 30 top-tier jumpers from 11 different nations - numbers equivalent to Olympic women's bobsled stats - and by the time the 2014 Olympics roll around, several more world championships will have taken place. But...
The Inechkyans have been living in Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta for six generations since 1911, when Czar Nicholas II granted land there to resettlers from Turkey. "Now, Putin is taking away what the Emperor gave our forefathers," says Inechkyan. He notes that the authorities promised to shift the bobsled track in the...