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...is unfortunate that we Canadians will remember the Torino Olympics more for the quarter-final elimination of our men's hockey team than for our record haul of 24 Winter Olympic medals...
...last month's Torino Olympics-courtesy of male aerial skier Han Xiaopeng-skiing has never been so cool in China. A decade ago, there was only one sizeable ski site in the entire country-Yabuli in northeastern Heilongjiang province-and that was built specifically to host the 1996 Asian Winter Games. Today, there are more than 200 resorts nationwide, and the China Ski Association estimates that Chinese ski slopes will record more than 3 million visits this winter. Although the high price of lift tickets-a day pass at Lotus Mountain costs about $20, roughly equivalent to a local farmer...
...lifts-just an escalator that takes skiers partway up the slope. Still, a Yinqixing spokesman says the facility has recorded 500,000 visits since opening in 2002. One such customer is Shanghai native Gao Rujin, who recently brought her 6-year-old son to enjoy the indoor winter wonderland. "When I was a child, I never had opportunities like this," she says as she straps on the boy's rented skis. "I want to cultivate a spirit of adventure in my son by exposing him to new things." In today's China, upward mobility sometimes entails going straight downhill...
Despite the relatively mild weather, I feel like I’ve been sick the whole winter! Anyway, I was debating this with a friend recently: is it true that you should “feed a cold, starve a fever?” Or is it “feed a fever, starve a cold...
...editors: Opening the paper this morning, I was saddened to read Brian Rosenberg’s cynical take on the recent Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy (“The Olympic Tragedy,” comment, Mar. 1). Did we watch the same games? I have loved the Olympics since I was first cognizant of them, initially viewing them as an opportunity to learn about other countries and now as an affirmation of my faith in internationalism. In this belief, I am not blinded by my own idealism. The Games are not perfect. Since their original incarnation in Ancient...