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In reply to the discussion: 47,000 people, George Takei sign petition to move Sochi Olympics to Vancouver [View all]SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)35. Turin does not have freshly built modern stadiums.
I don't know where else you could move the winter Olympics on such short notice. Of course the Canadians are self-interested. But they also genuinely welcome LGBT.
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47,000 people, George Takei sign petition to move Sochi Olympics to Vancouver [View all]
SunSeeker
Aug 2013
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Turin held the winter Olympics in 2006. Do the facilities need to be more modern than that?
tammywammy
Aug 2013
#62
He'd fit right in with the majority segment of the House of Representatives, dontcha think?
Myrina
Aug 2013
#26
If the IOC doesn't move it, then the athletes should go and speak out if they want.
Bernardo de La Paz
Aug 2013
#10
There's "policies we don't like" and there's "effectively legislating new pogroms." (nt)
Posteritatis
Aug 2013
#49
Looks to me like the fools who attacked the gay rights demonstraters were arrested.
another_liberal
Aug 2013
#50
A law banning on "propaganda of nontraditional sexual orientation” is neither official nor discrimin
LanternWaste
Aug 2013
#60
If they do succeed in getting the Winter Olympics moved to British Columbia . . .
another_liberal
Aug 2013
#42
Sorry but the IOC responds to only 3 things- money, cocaine, and hookers - ask Mitt Romney
underpants
Aug 2013
#47