Tag Archives: 2010 Oympics

There have been a lot of these, of course, but this one I quite like.

Here’s a reminder to set your DVRs for tonight’s opening ceremonies at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Longtime readers may recall how completely nuts I went for the opening ceremonies in Beijing in 2008. Back then I closed with: “You totally have to feel sorry for Vancouver. There’s no way the next Olympics can come close to what the Chinese did.” …

“I would like to announce that due to pressures and threats from a certain animal rights group, I will be changing the genuine fox fur on my free program costume that I will use in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, B.C., to white faux fur. I made this decision after several threats were sent to me about disrupting …

This weekend Johnny Weir scored third in the Men’s Figure Skating Championships, earning him a slot on the U.S. Olympic team. Weir’s reality show debuts tonight on the Sundance Channel.

“I don’t think turning figure skating into some kind of X-Games event will promote figure skating to the male population of especially North America, but also the world. This kind of talk has been going around for some time, about making the men more masculine and the women more feminine. But it’s not figure skating if you don’t have the …

..with their doobie-shaped Olympic torch. (Via – BStewart23)

Gay athletes at the 2010 Vancouver Games will have have a safe space to socialize together: Canadian athletes at the 2010 Winter Games will have Canada House. Russians will have Russia House. The Dutch, Holland House. And now, gay and lesbian athletes will have Pride House. For the first time in Olympic history, gay and lesbian athletes will have a …