{"id":733,"date":"2010-02-12T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T04:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/wordpress\/?p=733"},"modified":"2011-07-03T17:43:38","modified_gmt":"2011-07-03T17:43:38","slug":"going-for-gold-the-vancouver-2010-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/733","title":{"rendered":"Going for gold&#8230; the Vancouver 2010 Winter&nbsp;Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-737\" title=\"Van2010_hockey\" src=\"http:\/\/vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Van2010_hockey1.jpg\" alt=\"Van2010_hockey\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Van2010_hockey1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Van2010_hockey1-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost showtime!\u00c2\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t know the 2010 Winter Olympics will start on Friday, 12 February in Vancouver, Canada. It&#8217;s one of the biggest events that has come to the city in a long time, and while there are concerns over urban displacement, indigenous issues and budget\/debt after the games, the excitement leading up to the games is undeniable&#8230; especially being a world-away in Timor-Leste.<\/p>\n<p>The official Vancouver Olympic site has a <a title=\"Vancouver 2010 - schedule\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/olympic-schedule-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">results\/schedule section<\/a> with live Olympic Coverage Online &#8211; surprise surprise,\u00c2\u00a0 Timor-Leste (or even Indonesia where we get most of our satellite TV) won&#8217;t get access to it&#8230; who can blame this when there are hardly any competitors from this part of the world, let alone people knowing what the Winter Olympics are about (i.e. men and women dressed in tight colorful clothing running around on pieces of wood (i.e. skis) and knives (i.e. skates)).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, if you&#8217;re like me and want to get some coverage on the games, you&#8217;ll need to turn to other alternatives.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This <a title=\"FastCompany\" href=\"  http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/pics\/designing-vancouver-2010-winter-olympics\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a> shows some of the interesting designs that will hit the streets of Vancouver in the next weeks. I hope the tram will still be running after the games!<\/li>\n<li>The Official Vancouver 2010 <a title=\"Vancouver 2010\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver2010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s almost showtime!\u00c2\u00a0 If you didn&#8217;t know the 2010 Winter Olympics will start on Friday, 12 February in Vancouver, Canada. It&#8217;s one of the biggest events that has come to the city in a long time, and while there are concerns over urban displacement, indigenous issues and budget\/debt after the games, the excitement leading up &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/archives\/733\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going for gold&#8230; the Vancouver 2010 Winter&nbsp;Olympics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[3,26,53,59,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/2223"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vincentfung.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}