By STEPHEN WILSON AP Sports Writer
LONDON(AP)—The world’s largest consumer products company signed on as a global Olympic sponsor Wednesday, the second multi-million-dollar marketing deal this month for the International Olympic Committee.
IOC president Jacques Rogge unveiled the 10-year agreement with American-based giant Procter & Gamble Co. at a news conference in London.
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP)—Former women’s world champion Erin Hamlin and three-time Olympian Tony Benshoof are among 14 athletes who will be part of USA Luge’s season-opening training camp starting Friday.
It’ll be the first camp overseen by five-time Olympian Mark Grimmette, who retired from sliding a month after the Vancouver Games and is now USA Luge’s sport program manager.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—British Columbia says it spent $895 million to host the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games.
That’s $155 million more than the official Olympic budget of $740 million.
The release Friday of the new number is the first time the province has acknowledged that expenses such as pavilions at the 2006 Turin and 2008 Beijing Olympics were part of the costs that British Columbia paid to host to the world.
ITTIGEN, Switzerland (AP)—Switzerland’s Olympic committee says the country is capable of hosting the 2022 Winter Games and will form a strategy to present a bid to the International Olympic Committee.
The Swiss Olympic body said Friday that a report it commissioned concludes that the Alpine nation could proceed with a bid.
ITTIGEN, SWITZERLAND(AP) —Switzerland’s Olympic committee says the country is capable of hosting the 2022 Winter Games and will form a strategy to present a bid to the International Olympic Committee.
The Swiss Olympic body said Friday that a report it commissioned concludes that the Alpine nation could proceed with a bid.
CANMORE, Alta. ' Win an Olympic gold medal as an American, an Australian, an European or an Asian and there's a very good chance you'll be set for life financially.
Yet, it's only a handful of highly decorated and visible Canadian amateur athletes who will be able to cash on their Olympic successes. But the latest group of medallists from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics say that while it still takes a lot of knocking, there are more opportunities now than ever before.
Jeff Lee, The Sun's Olympic Reporter, is in Sochi, Russia this week for the official debriefing of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. That's where John Furlong and others will pass on to the International Olympic Committee and Sochi 2014 organizers the lessons they learned while organizing the Vancouver 2010 Games.
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VANCOUVER ' What you have here, in the Whistler Sliding Centre, is the downhill ski course at Kitzbuhel, only with contoured concrete under the ice, instead of a mountain.
Once you leave the start gate at either place, you are at the mercy of gravity, skill and split-second judgment ' any lapse in which can have calamitous results. And in the pit of your stomach are emotions you have to fight to suppress.
LOS ANGELES (AP)—The tally is in: NBC lost $223 million on the Winter Olympics in the first quarter.
That’s slightly better than the most recent estimate of $250 million in losses. Advertising sales have improved a bit since NBC parent General Electric Co. made that projection in late January.
The Olympics did bring about $800 million in extra revenue to GE. But NBC had a lot of production and other expenses, including $820 million just to acquire the rights to carry the Vancouver Games on television and online. That expense was cited as the main culprit for the red ink.
NEW YORK (AP)—Ice dancing once was the ugly stepchild of figure skating, so scorned that there was discussion of dropping it from the Olympics.
Now, particularly after the sensational showings by the Canadians and Americans at the Vancouver Games, skating fans are clamoring for more.
Meryl Davis and Charlie White are ready to give it to them.
