Recently by Tom Harrington
Politicizing the podium
- March 8, 2010 11:11 AM
- By Tom Harrington
Politics and sport in Canada make strange bedfellows but that doesn't mean they can't share a room.
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Future of Whistler track uncertain
- February 28, 2010 6:50 PM
- By Tom Harrington
"The future of this track is bright."
That note of optimism was contained in a press release this weekend about the future of the Whistler Sliding Centre.
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The lure of the rings
- February 23, 2010 4:46 PM
- By Tom Harrington
A curling shot away from Celebration Plaza in the center of Whistler is a massive metal rendition of the Olympic rings.
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Swifter, Higher, Twitter
- February 18, 2010 3:41 PM
- By Tom Harrington
Welcome to the Tweetlympics! Vancouver 2010 is the first Olympics of the Twitter age. The robin's egg blue blog was still in the ether of the social networking universe when the world came to Beijing more than two years ago.
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The Babble of Britain
- February 16, 2010 7:18 PM
- By Tom Harrington
"Less than a triumph," "Canada's Gloom," "A logistical failure." That's a sample of the torrent of bad reviews being offered up by the British tabs and broadsheets barely a few days into these Games.
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Tears amid the rain
- February 13, 2010 7:25 PM
- By Tom Harrington
A man kneels near the steel pillar where it happened, sobbing as the morning training session ends. Jacques Rogge, the most powerful man at the Olympics, removes his glasses and wipes his eyes.
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Wetting Your Whistler
- February 11, 2010 8:45 PM
- By Tom Harrington
I don't know about you but I don't like standing in the rain.
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Making dopers pay
- February 5, 2010 1:32 PM
- By Tom Harrington
It's just one line among the 135 pages of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) rulebook.
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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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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
- Politicizing the podium
- Politics and sport in Canada make strange bedfellows but that doesn't mean they can't share a room.... Continue reading this post
- Future of Whistler track uncertain
- "The future of this track is bright." That note of optimism was contained in a press release this weekend about the future of the Whistler Sliding Centre.... Continue reading this post
- The lure of the rings
- A curling shot away from Celebration Plaza in the center of Whistler is a massive metal rendition of the Olympic rings.... Continue reading this post
