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"When I got off the airplane, it was like, 'What's this green grass doing here? This is the Winter Olympics,'" U.S. speedskater Trevor Marsicano told the AP on Sunday. "For me, it's nice, because I'm used to, like, zero degrees. This is awesome."
"It's not so much the warm weather; it's the wind that does the most damage," explained John Furlong, executive director of VANOC, the Games organizing committee. "We may get help from Mother Nature, but we're not counting on it. The team is calculating what they have to do. The effort for the past 10 days has been superhuman. They've moved an extraordinary amount of snow."Or if they asked, "Is that the luge track?", we'd reply, "No, that's Pembina Highway. The luge is only one lane."See the full content of this document
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Left Coast Games look a tad too green
VANCOUVER -- Um, this is the Winter Olympics, right?Just askin'. I mean, when you're plunked on a patch of bright green grass just outside the Olympic Village in downtown Vancouver, watch...See the full content of this document
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