January 2010 Archives
In the shoes of a flag-bearer
- January 29, 2010 12:32 PM
- By Tom Harrington
It is a walk taken by a very exclusive group of athletes and two weeks from now, Clara Hughes will join them when she carries the maple leaf into B.C. Place Stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympics.
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Naming flag-bearer: Learning from mistakes
- January 22, 2010 4:17 PM
- By Tom Harrington
The curse of the flag-bearer is largely a media creation, re-visited every Olympic year.
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Will Chan be Canada's 1st cross-cultural sports hero?
- January 14, 2010 4:35 PM
- By Tom Harrington
His visage beams down...across from the CBC building in Toronto
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About the Author
- Tom Harrington A 4-time Gemini nominee for best sports host, Tom Harrington is sports correspondent for CBC News, reporting for THE NATIONAL…Canada’s only network news reporter who covers sports stories and issues. He can also be heard as guest host on CBC Radio’s The WORLD AT SIX, THE CURRENT, AS IT HAPPENS, and CROSS-COUNTRY CHECK-UP. Harrington's been a member of the CBC SPORTS broadcast crew at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, Nagano and Sydney as well as the 1994 and 1998 Commonwealth Games. He covered the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg for Newsworld and joined the CBC NEWS team for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, the 2004 Games in Athens, the Winter Olympics in Turin in 2006 and was in Beijing for the 2008 Summer Games.
Recent Entries
- In the shoes of a flag-bearer
- It is a walk taken by a very exclusive group of athletes and two weeks from now, Clara Hughes will join them when she carries the maple leaf into B.C. Place Stadium at the opening ceremony of the 2010 Olympics. ... Continue reading this post
- Naming flag-bearer: Learning from mistakes
- The curse of the flag-bearer is largely a media creation, re-visited every Olympic year.... Continue reading this post
- Will Chan be Canada's 1st cross-cultural sports hero?
- His visage beams down...across from the CBC building in Toronto... Continue reading this post
