Televised coverage of the 2010 Paralympics will be a far cry from the thousands of hours international broadcasters devoted to the recently completed Olympic Games.
Whereas hundreds of broadcasters measured their Olympic coverage in hundreds of hours - in some cases filling the airwaves 22 hours a day - just over two dozen companies are left in Vancouver for the Paralympics, and they are counting their hours here by fives, 10s and 50s. And that's the total for the entire 10 days of the Games.
But as far as the Vancouver Organizing Committee and the International Paralympic Committee are concerned, that's not necessarily a bad thing, given it's a vast improvement over past Games.
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Mark Blinch, Reuters
Transportation woes reminiscent of the 1996 Summer Games in Atlanta continue to plague the Vancouver Olympics.
And it's only Day 2.
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METRO VANCOUVER -- Vancouver Olympic organizers are bringing in 99 new transport coaches to use on mountain venues after they found problems with transit buses they hired from California.
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NEW WESTMINSTER ' When you live in a small town, like I do, you know what brings a community together. It might be your town's annual parade, or the news that a developer is tearing down the theatre to make way for a superstore.
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