IOC failing in its responsibility to the Olympics

[Derechos]

As the Vancouver Games come to a close, International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge will call them a success. But it's the IOC -- so incubated in blue blazers, five-star accommodations, and shellfish buffets -- that requires real assessment. Exactly what should the purpose of the IOC be? Rogge seems hard-pressed to define his job -- what exactly are the duties of royalty?

It's been almost a decade since Rogge took over the IOC, and the hope that he would provide some integrity and leadership to the organization is gone. Instead, the primary achievements of his millennial Olympic movement are unwieldy growth, a breathtaking collaboration with regimes that commit human rights abuses, and a shucking of responsibility for Olympic-sized ills. The IOC, confronted in Vancouver with a couple of lethal issues and fresh human rights concerns at the next Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, instead reserved some of its toughest words for this late-breaking scandal: the drinking of champagne by women in public.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/27/AR2010022703315.html?hpid=topnews

[Condem]

1. Real hell-raisers those Canadian women!!!

Smoking cigars...in public. What in the name of Christ has happened here??

[Lucy Goosey]

3. I believe the full description of their offence is...

...Smoking cigars in public while female.

[Condem]

4. Long after the game was over.

This is just a travesty. Tar and feather the lot of them.

[Lucy Goosey]

5. Travesty indeed - one of them had a Coors Light. She should have her citizenship stripped.

Seriously, the correct beer was: Canadian.

[Condem]

6. Yup, Lucy.

If she had a Molson or LaBatts in her hand, we got no problemo. Damn-ass cavewoman.

[Renew Deal]

2. The Vancouver games have been an overwhelming success.

The loss of the Georgian luger was tough, but the games have otherwise been great.

[murphyj87]

7. US Afghan veteran Soule revels in new challenge

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/paralympics/sports/biathlon/newsid=55274.html#us+afghan+veteran+soule+revels+challenge