Media delegates toured several locations on Cypress Mountain, site of snowboarding and freestyle skiing, but were not allowed to approach the site of the new day lodge. (B. Mackin/ATR)A break from November rain delivered glorious sunshine that bathed the Olympic city as delegates began the first day of World Press Briefing tours Tuesday, but they could not escape economic doom and gloom.
VANOC CEO John Furlong was careful to avoid using the word “economy,” but the reference was obvious when he said the situation means “we must be better at our jobs, more creative.”
“We’ll do our best to find creative solutions to your challenges,” he said. “Just let us know what those challenges may be.”
Delegates were first shown around the Vancouver Convention Centre complex which will be the Main Press Centre in 2010.
From there, journalists boarded motorcoaches to Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver where newly re-elected Mayor Pam Goldsmith-Jones welcomed them to the site of snowboarding and freestyle skiing. The group was not allowed to approach the snowboarding track or the construction site for the new day lodge.
Afterwards, the delegation went back into Vancouver to see the Pacific Coliseum, Canada Hockey Place and ended at the Richmond Oval for a reception.
Ski jumping lawsuit takes a turn
The ten women hoping to force VANOC to add women's ski jumping to the 2010 Winter Olympics are going to B.C. Supreme Court on April 20, 2009.
The lawsuit vying for women’s ski jumping to be added in 2010 will land in the B.C. Supreme Court in April 2009. (ATR)That will be day one of a five-day civil trial stemming from a May 21 lawsuit.
Lawyer Ross Clark said Tuesday at a Vancouver Convention Centre news conference that it could take as long as five days to hear the gender discrimination lawsuit against organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
"I was hoping to go earlier, but the reality is there is a huge volume of material to be processed," Clark said.
The VANOC defense statement said the plaintiffs sued the wrong party, because the decision to exclude women from ski jumping was made by the International Olympic Committee in late 2006.
…Briefs
…Am Johal of the Impact on Community Coalition and B.C. Civil Liberties Association board member Michael Byers held a news conference to call on VANOC to allow their watchdog group to observe the Thursday WPB session.
…Members of the radical Olympic Resistance Network handed out flyers advertising a Thursday noon rally outside the convention centre and a news conference three hours later in the Downtown Eastside ghetto.
With reporting from
Bob Mackin in Vancouver.
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