2010 Olympic Rant #35 silver spoons for Jacque Rogge · 30.09.09 by colin newell
When the top names on the International Olympic Committee visit Vancouver for the 2010 Games next February, not one of your taxpayer dollars will be spared to see that these pathetic blue-bloods are suitably comfortable and tuned in to virtually every athletic competition underway, silver spoons in virtually every orifice.
FOI requests indicate that IOC president Jacques Rogge will be housed in a five-star waterfront Vancouver hotel. Oh goodie.
Rogge’s room also must be rigged with floor-to-ceiling banks of television sets with video feeds “enabling simultaneous viewing of all events of the games.”
Well. At least we don’t have to address him as his excellency…
In terms of getting around sporting events and other locations in Vancouver and Whistler, Rogge and other IOC members will get their own SUV’s and drivers, as will members of all the international sports federation bodies. Right.
Families of IOC members, as well as their interpreters, advisers, and agents all will have their bills paid for by the local organizing committee (and by default, you!), and should they get sick, there must be free medical care for them, according to the documents.
F*ck me. British Columbia’s faltering economy is in the IOC and VANOC’s wrecking ball cross-hairs.
Listen up folks. I have been talking to hundreds of British Columbians… and they have all been saying the same thing. This is all an outrage. And we are all f*cked.
Oh. With one exception. On June 25 of this year I spoke to a member of VANOC who was getting sick and tired of all the whiners and naysayers.
Well guess what, maggot? We are getting sick of you!
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Wow. Just.. wow. We are indeed f*cked.. and yet my daughter seems excited by the idea of the Olympics. She didn’t get that from us.
BTW, LOVE the graphic.
— Cheryl Oct 1, 08:40 am #