Media: Games in Vancouver can become the worst in the history of the Olympic movement

The Winter Olympiad in Vancouver risks becoming the worst in the history of the Olympic movement, believes the British The Guardian . “It is hard to believe that you can surpass the inorganization and an undisguised thirst for profit at the 1996 Games in Atlanta or the unnecessary financing of the Olympics -1976, which oversleptly Montreal, but in Vancouver every day is more and more noticeable atmosphere of nervousness and uncontrollable drift,” writes journalist Lawrence Donegan.

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The next fiasco occurred in the Sipress ski complex: the organizers were forced to return the money - 400 thousand dollars - four thousand spectators who purchased tickets for snowboarding competitions. Livine rains washed off snow, and it is impossible to build safe stands for the audience, the organizers explained.

"Perhaps the IOC chose Vancouver in vain for the Winter Olympiad?" - the journalist asks a question. And he himself replies that, perhaps, the claim is unfair: the Canadian Olympic Committee is not in power over the weather "unlike the organizers of the Olympiad in Beijing," the website inopressa.ru reports.

But there are other problems in Vancouver, he continues: the work of transport is poorly debugged (the Prime Minister of the British Colombia and the leaders of the four Indian tribes were late for the performance of the Canadian anthem at the opening ceremony). And the hydraulic mechanism of the bowl for Olympic fire failed at the most crucial moment, the author of the article recalls.