In depth recounting of my global wandering
Before the Games. It’s not unusual for non-athletic controversies to bubble up around any Olympic Games and the 2008 Games in Beijing were no different in this regard. I’ll touch on one of them – the torch relay. Twenty years …
Preface. I’ve reached the point in my Olympic host cities tour where I’ll be revisiting cities that I have written about elsewhere in this blog. Many – such as Beijing which is the leadoff city for this segment – I’ve …
Most of the sources I’ve read indicate the presence of First Nations along the Canadian Pacific coast and inland into what is now British Columbia dates to 10,000 years BP. However, given what we’ve learned about the Bering land bridge …
Till we meet the first time – shaping clarity. Sometimes elements of my research are a bit repetitive and routine. This can be beneficial because it pounds concepts I find difficult through my skull until they finally lodge at least …
On to the Games at last. With Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, Peru and Serbia making their Winter Olympic Games debuts, 82 countries brought 2,566 athletes to the Games. Canada’s 14 gold medals set a record for most gold …