Did Canada limit the amount of time other countries could use their olympic facilities?

Hey Michael, the most interesting article I remember reading on the issue was in time magazine and I found the link: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1957...

Long story short, there is a minimum time all countries have to train at the Olympic facilities and Canada has, in an attempt to be more successful than the previous times they have hosted the games, win a load of medals

In fact they had a program called "Own The Podium" which invested money in high tech suits (eg for speed skating), training facilities (using computer models etc) and other techniques currently used by many other countries when training for the Olympic games - (this includes America which invests the most in her athletes) to level the playing field and give them a better chance or more level chance. This 'Own the Podium' program also limited training times which I should mention were above the minimum.

This is a typical practice by all host countries and for the most part since it was the status quo no one was really upset - except for the Americans; however, the most interesting fact is that the time given to athletes in Vancouver was greater than that given to athletes in Salt Lake City...

It's a good article, and congratulations CANADA - the most gold medals won by any single country in the history of the Olympics. Quite a feat considering it is a country of only 33 million and that many of the Olympians will be going back to regular jobs now that the games are over!

Hell, no! We have not reduce any ties with China, so why break the goals of our athletes? Boycotts will have to be within the diplomatic and fiscal realm, now not the Olympic video games. It is not anything however hypocrisy to have complete diplomatic family members, have a large quantity of alternate, after which advocate a boycott of the Olympics? That's absurd. Boycotting the Beijing video games might be fallacious and hypocritical, simply as boycotting the Moscow 1980 video games was once fallacious and hypocritical. Why does not the Canadian govt say 'f-off' while the Chinese made belligerent grunts and threats approximately the Dalai Lama's talk over with to Ottawa? Why does not the federal government take a stand for the rights of staff in Chinese sweatshops? Or for Tibetan independence? An Olympic boycott does not cope with those problems within the slightest. Lastly why boycott simplest the Beijing and the Moscow 1980 Olympics? This is an excessively one-sided view of worldwide human rights. You will have to then boycott part of all of the video games, if an identical average is carried out. Other solutions have good addressed the truth that there are a litany of human rights abusers on the earth.

I know for luge, that the Canadians got a lot more time on the track then other countries. There was a whole thing about how we were going to give the Americans extra time, but they wanted even more then we had. We told them no and told them they could have 3 extra days(they wanted a month extra) and they got mad and said no.

Every country got the same amount of time, but Canada obviously had an advantage. That is the way it always is. The host country gets the most time, and can choose how much time, other then official training which everyone gets, they let other countries have.

Yes they did, but that backfired on the luge track when the Georgian luger died during a practice run.

They were forced to move the starting point down to the ladies' level and it threw off the timing of the Canadian lugers who were accustomed to riding on the fastest track in the world.

Canadians were also kept off the Olympic facilities much of the time because of how fragile the conditions were. It was above freezing for much of the Olympics and snow had to be brought in by helicopter.

Here's a link to one article:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/king/news/newsid=412487...

Apparently they didn't break any rules - but they were as stingy as they were allowed to be - which annoyed some competitors.

Yes. except when they were forced to allow it.