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Paying the price
Scalping is now part of any big sports event -- in Utah it's legal. For a ticket to the men's gold-medal hockey game, the marquee event of the Olympics, scalpers want close to $1,500 US. CBC Radio's Christopher Grosskurth examines the business of ticket touting.
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Olympic pin-demonium
Imagine going to the Olympics and not going to any sports events. Well, there's an Olympic sub-culture in Salt Lake City that does exactly that. They come to the games to buy, sell and trade pins. The pin trade operates 24 hours a day on the internet, but, as the CBC's Christopher Grosskurth discovered, interest in the collectibles reaches its peak at the actual site of the games.
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Utah's
Little Switzerland
The tiny village of Midway is roughly 100
kilometres from Salt Lake City. Some of the Olympic events are being
held close to this village, which is known as 'Utah's Little Switzerland'.
Not surprisingly, some Swiss athletes have opted to stay in Midway
rather than in the Olympic Village. How Swiss is Midway? The CBC's
Christopher Grosskurth went there to find out.
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Euro
Hockey
Team Canada is hoping to do what no Canadian Olympic hockey team has
done in 50 years: win a gold medal. The Canadian team is made up of
seasoned NHL players and is one of the favourites. But as the CBC's
Christopher Grosskurth reports, don't count out a number of other
teams, particularly the Europeans.
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Friendly
Rivals
On the men's sprint speedskating team, Jeremy Wotherspoon and Mike
Ireland lead the way. They train together in Calgary under the same
coach, Mike's brother, Sean Ireland. Both are ranked in the top three
in the world. So, not only will they be challenged by the rest of
the world, but they'll also be racing against each other for Olympic
Gold. They talk about what it's like to be both rivals and team mates.
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Homeless
in Salt Lake
So far, organizers of the Salt Lake City
Olympics have been given high marks for the security blanketing the
Games. But they've been given a 'D minus' for their efforts in housing.
A coalition of community groups claim the number of homeless in Utah
is actually up during these Winter Games. Why an upsurge in homelessness
during the Olympics? Well, as the CBC's Christopher Grosskurth found
out, it's hard competing against Olympic vistors with money.
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Pierre
Lueders: Up Close
In the last winter olympics in Nagano Canadian bobsleigh driver Pierre
Leuders and brakeman Dave MacEachern finished in a deadheat with an
Italian sled, and the two teams shared the gold medal. But while the
Italian team always gets introduced as the defending Olympic gold
medal winners, Leuders says his team is often introduced as just "the
Canadian team." CBC Radio's Teddy Katz talked with him just before
the Olympics started.
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The
Scent of Scandal
Leading up to these games, the main focus
was security. But Salt Lake's scandalous past may yet come back and
haunt olympic organizers. The bribery and corruption scandal began
in Salt Lake City before quickly spreading to cities around the world.
As the CBC's Christopher Grosskurth reports, the scent of scandal
still lingers over Utah.
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A
Tale of Two Rinks
Records will fall at these Winter Games.
Certainly that's the expectation at the speedskating oval. Salt Lake
City is looking to take away the title of the world's fastest ice
from the Calgary oval. As Teddy Katz reports, officials in Calgary
are not amused. They accuse Salt Lake City of stealing some key people
in their bid to win the crown .
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The
50-Year Drought
Canada goes into this year's winter Olympics
as a favourite to win the gold medal in hockey. If the team lives
up to expectations, it will end a fifty year drought. The last gold
medal was won by the Edmonton Waterloo Mecurys in 1952. The CBC's
Christopher Grosskurth looks at the 'Mercs', a golden team that took
its name from a car dealership
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The beat behind the music
The music of a figure skater's program can make or break that program. Some skaters take risks in their choices, while others play it safe, especially in an Olympic year. CBC Radio's Suzanne Blake has more on what music figure skaters are using and why.
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Skeleton goes public
One sport that many predict will become a new favourite at the Salt Lake Games is skeleton. CBC Radio's Erin Carpenter has this look at what could be the new extreme sport of choice.
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Holding a torch for hockey
Dave Bidini has found that Canadians aren't the only people with a passion for hockey. Just ask the people who are taking Belarus, China and Latvia to the Olympic hockey tournament.
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From sweet to sultry
Female figure skaters from Eastern Europe are embracing a more wholesome American dream, while North America's top skaters adopt a European brand of sultriness made famous by Katarina Witt. It's a reversal of female roles in the post-Cold War era of figure skating.
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Girls setting new goals
Ever since women's hockey made its Olympic debut in 1998, girls have been lacing up hockey skates in unprecedented numbers. The 2002 Olympic women's hockey tournament should create a new class of household names for North American girls to emulate.
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When the weather outside is frightful
Winter Olympic athletes have to worry about windchill, iceburn and all the other contingencies of winter that Canadians typically gripe about. But these athletes don't look longingly at the balmier climes enjoyed by their summer sport cousins.
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