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Feds wasted big sums at Athens Olympics

Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 20:36

Feds wasted big sums at Athens Olympics: CTV
CTV.ca News Staff

When Canadian athletes emerged from the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens with only 12 medals, the chorus of calls urging Ottawa to increase funding grew louder.

Canada came in 17th place overall and athletes and officials -- including the International Olympic Committee -- blamed the poor showing on a lack of funding.

Documents obtained by CTV News show were some of the federal government's money went.

According to those documents, the federal government spent thousands on hospitality and travel for its government officials, more than $270,000 in hotels and security, more than $70,000 on Olympic tickets, nearly $20,000 handing out Canada pins.

Actually, Ottawa spent even more on officials in previous Olympics and tried to cut back this time. But some money was wasted through hotel deposits that were lost and tickets that couldn't be refunded.

In any event, many athletes say that money should have gone to them instead.

"This has been a bone of contention for athletes and coaches for years," CTV's Paula Newton reported on Newsnet.

"They scrimp and save, they try and qualify so that they get a little bit of government help that's actually out there for them and many cases, their parents really mortgage homes, take second jobs, everything they can to try and fund their Olympic dream."

Full Story: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1114890447389_24/?hub=CTVNewsAt11





Comments
Comments by Jim from Canada - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Monday, May 02, 2005 at 10:15
That doe not surprise me Mike.I hear the lieberals are going to raise an all gay battalion in the army.Their motto is going to be WERE VERY DISAPLINED

Comments by Giggy from Ontario - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Monday, May 02, 2005 at 04:03
You just had to mention HER!!!!...another smashed mouse!

Comments by Joeseph Kuntzdug from British Columbia - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 16:04
Adriun Klarksun flew over to Germany last week to open the new Kanadian embassy. It is 150% over budget!

Comments by Arnie from British Columbia - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 14:48
Hey Mike!! You would have only broken even! You would have had to kick back $15,000 to the LIEBRAL party of Kanada for handing out those pins.

Comments by Mike from British Columbia - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 14:01
AMEN BAYONET! You hit the nail right on the head!!!
I've been trying to join the military for years, but I keep getting turned down, and for the same reason I couldn't join the RCMP...I'm too WHITE, MALE, ENGLISH AND HETEROSEXUAL!

Comments by Bayonet from Other - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 13:27
It baffles me to no end why anyone would represent this country either as an athlete or in the military,the liberals sh it on these people yet they come back for more.

Comments by John Q Public from Alberta - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 08:36
The liberals don't care about fair competition. They talk a good game but again, if you judge them by their action, there are a million things they care about more. Like getting rich for example. There was a letter in the Journal maybe a week ago, the said; “liberals have no right to govern” because they cheated. So just like that skier (Beckie Scott) who was eventually given her gold metal instead of the bronze she was given at the event, because gold and silver were won by doping cheaters, the Conservatives should get the keys to 24 Sussex. The liberals are like some grotesque, steroid enhanced-androgynous beast of hideous disproportion that keeps wining against competition half its size that doesn’t cheat. Only unlike the concerned Olympic Committee that righted those wrongs, Canadians, are too ******ing stupid to FIGURE IT OUT, LET ALONE FIX IT.

Comments by ammo from Canada - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 06:27
Martin Liberals continueing to achieve olympic gold for their relentless corruption and contempt for Canadian values

Comments by ammo from Canada - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Sunday, May 01, 2005 at 06:17
The only gold Canada won at that Olympics was the continuation of the Liberal treating the Canadian tax payers money as their own personal treasure chest. Liberals the parasite of Canadian tax payers!

Comments by John Q Public from Alberta - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 22:32
Mike, the PMO.

Comments by Mike from British Columbia - (Report Post - RP)
Posted on: Saturday, April 30, 2005 at 21:05
$20,000 to hand out Canada pins over 2 weeks!!!
I would have done it for $15,000 - INSTANT SAVINGS!
Where do I go to bid on these jobs?


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