The 2008 Olympics in China will probably mark the pinnacle of economic expansion in China for many years to come.China’s biggest textile dye operation owner — with four factories, a campus the size of 31 football fields, 4,000 workers and debts of at least $200 million — was history. He burned his company’s financial books.

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B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell was in Vancouver Thursday to plant the final seeds on what is likely to most expensive rooftop garden in the city. It’s the one that sits on top of the Vancouver Convention Centre, another Olympic-related project that is way over budget.

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All politics is local, and the Olympics are all about politics, which is why Obama’s victory in the 2008 presidential election just might have ensured that the 2016 Summer Games will be held in Chicago.

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While officials debate what jersey Team Canada will wear at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, it’s clear that player loyalty to the Hockey Canada Maple Leaf logo in question runs deep.

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Ragdoll-based athletics game, in which you try to run by manually flexing the leg muscles of the athlete, and you lose when you comically flip over on to your head. It’s Porrasturvat meets Hyper Olympic.

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