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• Historical Day for Canada at the Winter Olympic Games March 1, 2010
  It was a historical day for Canada at the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games when we won 14 Gold medals – the most gold medals won by any nation in history!   At the beginning of the games all the media could talk about was, “when was Canada to get a gold medal on home soil?” Well that [...] […]
• Channel Nine nearly got it right – Vancouver Winter Olympics February 28, 2010
  After all the bad commentating and press, Channel Nine changed their tactics for the Vancouver Winter Olympics. They gave Eddie McGuire an afternoon roll, Mick Malloy was hardly on at all, and the evening show was taken over by the female and male commentators that were doing the afternoon show. Well done Channel Nine in [...] […]
• Canada leads in Golds at Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver February 28, 2010
  It was a slow start but Canada has really taken our Olympic dreams to a new level. With 12 Golds and the possibility of 2 more, we lead the gold medal tally! Not only are we leading the Golds, but we have just tied the number of medals we have ever won in any Olympic Games. With [...] […]
• Channel Nine responds to Olympic Winter Games complaints February 24, 2010
  It was nice to see the media responding to the complaints made on Channel Nine’s coverage of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. In our last post, we discussed the Australian coverage of the Winter Olympics. Unfortunately with the homophobic comments, and the patronizing behaviour of Eddie McGuire and Mick Malloy, there was very little reason [...] […]
• Channel Nine Winter Olympics Coverage after 1st week February 19, 2010
  What do people really think of Channel Nine’s coverage of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver? Australia is no different than most other countries in the world, where they show all their own athletes over and over again. As an ex-pat, this is frustrating because while so much sport is going on, all that is shown on [...] […]