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Media Watch -- Melbourne Olympic Bid, Vancouver Village

(ATR) The nascent Melbourne Olympic bid is quickly drawing support and doubts... There is a lot of second guessing about the funding for the Vancouver Olympic Village.

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An editorial in Victoria’s Herald Sun urges the state capital to bid for the Olympics. In national paper the Age an editorial says a Melbourne Olympic bid would be "worth it", even with the high price tag. The Australian Olympic Committee said no to a Melbourne Olympic bid, despite the growing support.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24929110-24218,00.html

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/editorial/a-melbourne-olympics-bid-would-be-costly-but-worth-it-20090117-7jk6.html

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/sport/nrl/story/0,26746,24928170-5016380,00.html

Canadian paper the Globe and Mail outlines what has gone wrong with the Vancouver Athletes' Village. An article in the Vancouver Sun says there were troubling signs from the start of the project. The Sunalso asks "what’s going on" with the Vancouver Games and tries to assuage fears that Vancouver Games might be a repeat of Montreal Games. Jeff Lee has the secret documents about the village’s financing deal at his blog.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20090117.BCMILLENNIUM17/TPStory/National

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastnews/story.html?id=f6624e8e-0179-43a6-bf79-029ff40953f9

http://www.vancouversun.com/Sports/What+going+with+Olympics/1189065/story.html

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/insideolympics/archive/2009/01/17/on-just-how-i-got-those-quot-secret-quot-olympic-village-documents.aspx

Writing in Vancouver’s the Province, Michael Smyth says he is “sick and tired” of the way politicians have used tax dollars in funding the village. Vancouver news Website straight.com has a draft transcript on the debate over the village’s funding.

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/story.html?id=ba0ca1a1-0654-4311-8bd8-fd198d334402

http://www.straight.com/article-194783/two-views-olympic-village-carole-james-and-colin-hansen

There are more troubles for VANOC. The proposed cross-country skiing course is getting negative reviews.

http://www.canada.com/theprovince/news/sports/story.html?id=5b8ebc15-a328-4be9-b42d-be57f0a49a86

Grigor Hristov of the Bulgarian Standart News asks why IOC President Jacques Rogge continues to fight drugs in sports.

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-01-18&article=26406

Thailand is training prisoners for the Olympics. Inmates at Bangkok's Ton-boo-ree Prison are training at boxing with the hopes of being selected for the 2012 Olympics.

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/thai-prisoners-train-for-olympics-2010/83026-5.html

Fabio Lanipekun writes in Nigeria’s Sunday Tribune that Zambia’s decision to withdraw from hosting the 2011 All Africa Games has compounded Africa’s sporting woes.

http://www.tribune.com.ng/18012009/grandmaster.html

NBC Universal Sports has an update on Justin Gatlin’s return to competitive running when he fulfills his suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs.

http://www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23000&ATCLID=3648150

MSNBC has a story how local Chicago politicians are using the Olympics to get political leverage.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28655579/

Chicago Public Radio aired a piece on how community organizers hope the Games will lead to urban renewal in parts of Chicago.

http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=31434

Written by Ed Hula III.

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