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Morgan News:2010 |Government|
Weekly newspaper claims BC government neglecting heartland in favour of Olympics
An editorial titled "The Neglected Interior" in the Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal today says the B.C. government is focusing on the Olympic Games and ignoring the day-to-day business of looking after the province's rural heartland.
As the editorial puts it, "Millions of dollars have already been spent on securing the 2010 Winter Olympics for Vancouver and Whistler. Hundreds more millions will be spent on preparations for the event. Past mega-projects that benefited exclusively the Vancouver area, include the convention centre, B.C. Place and Expo 86."
The newspaper adds, "Yes, Expo was a great event, as the Olympics will undoubtedly be too. It showcased the province, but with every visitor from the Interior, it sucked money out of the economies of small towns, money they might have spent at home. Not to mention all the money spent on staging Expo 86."
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Article Number: 23 * Published on 9/30/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2326
(7 Years, 5 Months and 15 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2354
(7 Years, 6 Months and 12 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |Business|
Burnaby sets up hotel tax to pay for new Tourism agency for Olympic promotion
The city council of Burnaby, a Vancouver suburb, has begun the steps needed to approve a hotel tax designed to raise about $500,000 a year for Tourism Burnaby, a new agency that will help focus attention on the community , in part for the 2010 Winter Olympics. City council approved the tax today.
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan says the Greater Vancouver Regional District and the B.C. government will need to approve the plan in the next few months so that it can be implemented. The 2% tax will be added to the provincial sales taxes charged on hotel rooms, so rather than paying 7.5%, hotel guests will pay 9.5%. Nathan Fox, the tourism committee chair of the Burnaby Board of Trade said more than 80& of the city's hotels and motels approve of the plan, which has been under consideration for three years.
The mayor hopes that the Burnaby Tourism Bureau, once it exists, will help call attention to Burnaby hotels and motels for both the 2009 World Police and Fire Games as well as the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, among other events.
The Board of Trade will be talking about the opportunities provided by the Games at its Oct. 9 luncheon, at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown hotel.
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Article Number: 24 * Published on 9/29/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2327
(7 Years, 5 Months and 16 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2355
(7 Years, 6 Months and 13 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |OCOG|
Canadian government names its representatives to Olympics Organizing Committee
Federal Heritage Minister Sheila Copps today confirmed the three federal representatives who will be a part of the 19-member Canadian Olympic Organizing Committee (OCOG). The appointments are for three years.
The representatives are:
* France Chretien-Desmarais, who is the daughter of Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the wife of Andre Desmarais, president of Power Corporation. She is the president of Maxi-Crisp Canada Inc. and sits on the board of a number of charity groups. And she served as one of 90 board members of the Vancouver 2010 bid committee's Board of Directors. Power Corporation is a diversified management and holding company with holdings in financial services and the communications sectors of Canada. It is affiliated in Europe with the Pargesa group, which holds significant positions in major media, energy, water, waste services and mining companies. It also has a number of interests in Asia.
* Peter Dhillon, the is CEO of Richberry Group of Companies . He is also vice-chairman of Ocean Spray & Cranberries Inc. He is also a former director of the B.C. Ferry Corporation, which provides ferry services to the B.C. Government. He was also chair of the 2003 Canadian Olylmpic Hall of Fame Dinner organizing committee earlier this year that inducted a number of athletes to the COHF ranks.
* Tony Tennessy. He was a former president of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 115, but is now listed as a consultant to the union. He is a director of Concert Properties. He is also reportedly a friend of Austin Thorne, Copp's husband. Concert Properties is a property developer owned by a number of British Columbia union and management pension funds. It's chairman and CEO is Jack Poole, who was the CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, and who is also a director of the OCOG. Also on the Board of Concert Properties is David Podmore, the company's President and CEO.
Named earlier by the Canadian Olympic Committee: CEO Chris Rudge, president Michael Chambers, Canadian IOC members Richard Pound, Charmaine Crooks and Paul Henderson; double Olympic speed skating gold medallist Catriona Le May Doan and Michael Phelps former CEO of Westcoast Energy Inc.
The City of Vancouver appointees are: former Olympic swimmer Marion Lay, who is head of the Legacies Now program; and Vancouver City Manager Judy Rodgers.
Whistler has named Barrett Fisher, who is with tourism Whistler; and Jim Godfrey, the municipality's chief administrator.
The province of B.C. has yet to name its repreeenatitives, and there is to be a joint representative for the two native bands in the Whistler area, the Lil'Wat and Squamish.
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Article Number: 28 * Published on 9/26/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2330
(7 Years, 5 Months and 19 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2358
(7 Years, 6 Months and 16 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |Business|
NBC Sport chairman Ebersol impressed by Vancouver while on Olympic tour
A Vancouver Sun newspaper reporter who interviewed the chairman of NBC Television Sports, Dick Ebersol, as he completed a week-long visit in Vancouver says Ebersol told him "This is my 11th city where I've been involved in producing the Olympics, and other than Sydney no other city on first impression has impressed me as much as Vancouver."
Reporter Michael McCullough points out that NBC is expected to have about 2,000 staff and 3,000 advertisers and sponsors connected with the 2010 Games. And, he says, it will be "the largest occupant of the International Broadcast Centre in the as-yet-unbuilt convention centre on Coal Harbour [part of Vancouver's business-core waterfront]." One of those sponsors is General Electric, NBC's parent company, and which MkcClullogh says is also expected to have a large contingent in Vancouver.
McCullough says the 56-year-old Ebersol, 56, told him that Ebersol likes to have a look at the host city well ahead of time, "produced most of the recent Olympic broadcasts."
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Article Number: 30 * Published on 9/26/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2330
(7 Years, 5 Months and 19 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2358
(7 Years, 6 Months and 16 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |IOC|
Small UK firm to sell 2010 TV rights in Europe
Britain's Guardian newspaper says an Olympics committee has hired a small UK company to advice on the TV rights to the Olympics across Europe.
The Guardian says "David Kogan, a former Reuters and Granada executive who also represents the Premier League, has won the opportunity to help the Olympics committee sell the TV rights to the 2010 and 2012 winter and summer Olympics around the world through his Reel Enterprises company."
The International Olympic Committee's traditionally sells Olympic rights to the European Broadcasting Union, which negotiates collectively for all European public service broadcasters, including the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Guardian reporter Jason Deans says, "Although the Olympics are protected under UK legislation and can only be screened by a terrestrial broadcaster unless express permission is given by regulators, it heralds a new-found commercialism at the heart of the organization. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation put in a bid for the Olympics the last time the TV rights were on offer in 1996. But although he outbid his rivals, the Olympic committee did not have the stomach for the political fallout and handed the rights to the EBU."
Deans says there is also a chance the rights could go to a rival of the BBC's for the first time if digital terrestrial network Freeview has established itself as a main player by that time. He points out that the BBC channels are carried on the Freeview network, "but last week BSkyB admitted it might launch an upmarket general entertainment channel for the network in the future."
And, he adds, with a predicted £1bn in cash flow to spare from 2007, Sky's so-called "Channel 6" could be a real rival to BBC1 and ITV1. He says that the value of the games would also rocket in the UK if London wins the bid to host the event. That's because, "The EBU holds the European TV rights to all Olympic events up to the Beijing games in 2008, and it is already under pressure to bid more for the rights for 2010 and beyond. Earlier this year the IOC sold the US TV rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics to NBC for £1.2bn - 30% more than the same network paid for the 2006 and 2008 events. The EBU is also facing an ongoing European Union investigation into its collective buying of sports rights."
Deans says Reel Enterprises will carry out an analysis of the European market for Olympic TV rights before reporting back to the IOC, and that the London-based firm will also be advising the IOC on whether it would be better to deal with the EBU or negotiate separately with the 55 European broadcasters it represents.
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Article Number: 14 * Published on 9/24/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2332
(7 Years, 5 Months and 21 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2360
(7 Years, 6 Months and 18 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |IOC| IOC names co-ordination commission to oversee 2010 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee today named nine people to the Co-ordination Commission that will oversee the Vancouver Organizing Committee's development of the 2010 Olympic Games.
The nine will join Switzerland's Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, who was named chairman of the co-ordination commission in July, and Gilbert Felli of France, who is the committee's executive director as well as the executive director of the Olympic Games. The Commission, is expected to hold its first meeting in Vancouver before next summer.
The 11 include several members of the IOC commission that evaluated the three cities during the 2010 Winter Games bidding process.
The full board of the Coordination Commission and its contact information:
PRESIDENT
* René Fasel - Switzerland (Member of IOC)
MEMBER(S)
* Fraser Bullock - USA (IOC Member, past Organizing Committee representative)
* Ottavio Cinquanta - Italy (IOC Member, IF representative)
* Gian-Franco Kasper - Switzerland (IOC Member, International Ski Federation)
* Gunilla Lindberg - Sweden (IOC representative)
* José Luis Marco - Argentina
* Le Prince d' Orange - Netherlands (IOC Member, (IOC representative))
* Tsunekazu Takeda - Japan
* Rita Van Driel - Netherlands (International Paralympic Committee representative)
* Pernilla Wiberg - Sweden (IOC Member, Olympic alpine ski champion, athletes' representative)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
* Gilbert Felli - Switzerland
ADDRESS
Coordination Commission
XXI Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver 2010
Château de Vidy
1007 Lausanne
Switzerland
TELEPHONE: (41.21) 621 61 11
FAX: 41.21) 621 62 1
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Article Number: 26 * Published on 9/24/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2332
(7 Years, 5 Months and 21 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2360
(7 Years, 6 Months and 18 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |Government|
Weekly newspaper claims BC government neglecting heartland in favour of Olympics
An editorial titled "The Neglected Interior" in the Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal today says the B.C. government is focusing on the Olympic Games and ignoring the day-to-day business of looking after the province's rural heartland.
As the editorial puts it, "Millions of dollars have already been spent on securing the 2010 Winter Olympics for Vancouver and Whistler. Hundreds more millions will be spent on preparations for the event. Past mega-projects that benefited exclusively the Vancouver area, include the convention centre, B.C. Place and Expo 86."
The newspaper adds, "Yes, Expo was a great event, as the Olympics will undoubtedly be too. It showcased the province, but with every visitor from the Interior, it sucked money out of the economies of small towns, money they might have spent at home. Not to mention all the money spent on staging Expo 86."
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Article Number: 23 * Published on 9/30/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2326
(7 Years, 5 Months and 15 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2354
(7 Years, 6 Months and 12 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |Business|
Burnaby sets up hotel tax to pay for new Tourism agency for Olympic promotion
The city council of Burnaby, a Vancouver suburb, has begun the steps needed to approve a hotel tax designed to raise about $500,000 a year for Tourism Burnaby, a new agency that will help focus attention on the community , in part for the 2010 Winter Olympics. City council approved the tax today.
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan says the Greater Vancouver Regional District and the B.C. government will need to approve the plan in the next few months so that it can be implemented. The 2% tax will be added to the provincial sales taxes charged on hotel rooms, so rather than paying 7.5%, hotel guests will pay 9.5%. Nathan Fox, the tourism committee chair of the Burnaby Board of Trade said more than 80& of the city's hotels and motels approve of the plan, which has been under consideration for three years.
The mayor hopes that the Burnaby Tourism Bureau, once it exists, will help call attention to Burnaby hotels and motels for both the 2009 World Police and Fire Games as well as the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, among other events.
The Board of Trade will be talking about the opportunities provided by the Games at its Oct. 9 luncheon, at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown hotel.
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Article Number: 24 * Published on 9/29/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2327
(7 Years, 5 Months and 16 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2355
(7 Years, 6 Months and 13 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |OCOG|
Canadian government names its representatives to Olympics Organizing Committee
Federal Heritage Minister Sheila Copps today confirmed the three federal representatives who will be a part of the 19-member Canadian Olympic Organizing Committee (OCOG). The appointments are for three years.
The representatives are:
* France Chretien-Desmarais, who is the daughter of Prime Minister Jean Chretien and the wife of Andre Desmarais, president of Power Corporation. She is the president of Maxi-Crisp Canada Inc. and sits on the board of a number of charity groups. And she served as one of 90 board members of the Vancouver 2010 bid committee's Board of Directors. Power Corporation is a diversified management and holding company with holdings in financial services and the communications sectors of Canada. It is affiliated in Europe with the Pargesa group, which holds significant positions in major media, energy, water, waste services and mining companies. It also has a number of interests in Asia.
* Peter Dhillon, the is CEO of Richberry Group of Companies . He is also vice-chairman of Ocean Spray & Cranberries Inc. He is also a former director of the B.C. Ferry Corporation, which provides ferry services to the B.C. Government. He was also chair of the 2003 Canadian Olylmpic Hall of Fame Dinner organizing committee earlier this year that inducted a number of athletes to the COHF ranks.
* Tony Tennessy. He was a former president of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 115, but is now listed as a consultant to the union. He is a director of Concert Properties. He is also reportedly a friend of Austin Thorne, Copp's husband. Concert Properties is a property developer owned by a number of British Columbia union and management pension funds. It's chairman and CEO is Jack Poole, who was the CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation, and who is also a director of the OCOG. Also on the Board of Concert Properties is David Podmore, the company's President and CEO.
Named earlier by the Canadian Olympic Committee: CEO Chris Rudge, president Michael Chambers, Canadian IOC members Richard Pound, Charmaine Crooks and Paul Henderson; double Olympic speed skating gold medallist Catriona Le May Doan and Michael Phelps former CEO of Westcoast Energy Inc.
The City of Vancouver appointees are: former Olympic swimmer Marion Lay, who is head of the Legacies Now program; and Vancouver City Manager Judy Rodgers.
Whistler has named Barrett Fisher, who is with tourism Whistler; and Jim Godfrey, the municipality's chief administrator.
The province of B.C. has yet to name its repreeenatitives, and there is to be a joint representative for the two native bands in the Whistler area, the Lil'Wat and Squamish.
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Article Number: 28 * Published on 9/26/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2330
(7 Years, 5 Months and 19 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2358
(7 Years, 6 Months and 16 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |Business|
NBC Sport chairman Ebersol impressed by Vancouver while on Olympic tour
A Vancouver Sun newspaper reporter who interviewed the chairman of NBC Television Sports, Dick Ebersol, as he completed a week-long visit in Vancouver says Ebersol told him "This is my 11th city where I've been involved in producing the Olympics, and other than Sydney no other city on first impression has impressed me as much as Vancouver."
Reporter Michael McCullough points out that NBC is expected to have about 2,000 staff and 3,000 advertisers and sponsors connected with the 2010 Games. And, he says, it will be "the largest occupant of the International Broadcast Centre in the as-yet-unbuilt convention centre on Coal Harbour [part of Vancouver's business-core waterfront]." One of those sponsors is General Electric, NBC's parent company, and which MkcClullogh says is also expected to have a large contingent in Vancouver.
McCullough says the 56-year-old Ebersol, 56, told him that Ebersol likes to have a look at the host city well ahead of time, "produced most of the recent Olympic broadcasts."
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Article Number: 30 * Published on 9/26/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2330
(7 Years, 5 Months and 19 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2358
(7 Years, 6 Months and 16 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |IOC|
Small UK firm to sell 2010 TV rights in Europe
Britain's Guardian newspaper says an Olympics committee has hired a small UK company to advice on the TV rights to the Olympics across Europe.
The Guardian says "David Kogan, a former Reuters and Granada executive who also represents the Premier League, has won the opportunity to help the Olympics committee sell the TV rights to the 2010 and 2012 winter and summer Olympics around the world through his Reel Enterprises company."
The International Olympic Committee's traditionally sells Olympic rights to the European Broadcasting Union, which negotiates collectively for all European public service broadcasters, including the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Guardian reporter Jason Deans says, "Although the Olympics are protected under UK legislation and can only be screened by a terrestrial broadcaster unless express permission is given by regulators, it heralds a new-found commercialism at the heart of the organization. Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation put in a bid for the Olympics the last time the TV rights were on offer in 1996. But although he outbid his rivals, the Olympic committee did not have the stomach for the political fallout and handed the rights to the EBU."
Deans says there is also a chance the rights could go to a rival of the BBC's for the first time if digital terrestrial network Freeview has established itself as a main player by that time. He points out that the BBC channels are carried on the Freeview network, "but last week BSkyB admitted it might launch an upmarket general entertainment channel for the network in the future."
And, he adds, with a predicted £1bn in cash flow to spare from 2007, Sky's so-called "Channel 6" could be a real rival to BBC1 and ITV1. He says that the value of the games would also rocket in the UK if London wins the bid to host the event. That's because, "The EBU holds the European TV rights to all Olympic events up to the Beijing games in 2008, and it is already under pressure to bid more for the rights for 2010 and beyond. Earlier this year the IOC sold the US TV rights to the 2010 and 2012 Olympics to NBC for £1.2bn - 30% more than the same network paid for the 2006 and 2008 events. The EBU is also facing an ongoing European Union investigation into its collective buying of sports rights."
Deans says Reel Enterprises will carry out an analysis of the European market for Olympic TV rights before reporting back to the IOC, and that the London-based firm will also be advising the IOC on whether it would be better to deal with the EBU or negotiate separately with the 55 European broadcasters it represents.
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Article Number: 14 * Published on 9/24/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2332
(7 Years, 5 Months and 21 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2360
(7 Years, 6 Months and 18 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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Morgan News:2010 |IOC| IOC names co-ordination commission to oversee 2010 Olympics
The International Olympic Committee today named nine people to the Co-ordination Commission that will oversee the Vancouver Organizing Committee's development of the 2010 Olympic Games.
The nine will join Switzerland's Rene Fasel, president of the International Ice Hockey Federation, who was named chairman of the co-ordination commission in July, and Gilbert Felli of France, who is the committee's executive director as well as the executive director of the Olympic Games. The Commission, is expected to hold its first meeting in Vancouver before next summer.
The 11 include several members of the IOC commission that evaluated the three cities during the 2010 Winter Games bidding process.
The full board of the Coordination Commission and its contact information:
PRESIDENT
* René Fasel - Switzerland (Member of IOC)
MEMBER(S)
* Fraser Bullock - USA (IOC Member, past Organizing Committee representative)
* Ottavio Cinquanta - Italy (IOC Member, IF representative)
* Gian-Franco Kasper - Switzerland (IOC Member, International Ski Federation)
* Gunilla Lindberg - Sweden (IOC representative)
* José Luis Marco - Argentina
* Le Prince d' Orange - Netherlands (IOC Member, (IOC representative))
* Tsunekazu Takeda - Japan
* Rita Van Driel - Netherlands (International Paralympic Committee representative)
* Pernilla Wiberg - Sweden (IOC Member, Olympic alpine ski champion, athletes' representative)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
* Gilbert Felli - Switzerland
ADDRESS
Coordination Commission
XXI Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver 2010
Château de Vidy
1007 Lausanne
Switzerland
TELEPHONE: (41.21) 621 61 11
FAX: 41.21) 621 62 1
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Article Number: 26 * Published on 9/24/2003
Editorial tips, ideas, events:
Days until the 2010 Winter Olympics (Feb 12-28, 2010): 2332
(7 Years, 5 Months and 21 Days)
Days until the 2010 Winter Paralympics (March 12-21, 2010): 2360
(7 Years, 6 Months and 18 Days)
Morgan News: 2010 * Copyright 2003 * Vancouver, B.C. Canada
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