Winning a medal at the Vancouver Olympic Games doesn't normally make you a target of derision from your fellow countrymen.
Then again, most Olympic athletes don't have the colorful background of Dale Begg-Smith, the former world-champion mogul skier who is almost as well known for reports about his involvement with adware, browser pop-ups, and other detritus of the seamier side of the Internet.
The Olympic skier known as 'spam king'
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Pride House starts a new Olympic tradition
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The Whistler Pride House, sitting inside the Pan Pacific Whistler Village Centre Hotel, is the first house in the history of the Olympics to pay tribute exclusively to gay and lesbian athletes, coaches, family, friends and allies.
Read more »Canucks forward Mats Sundin says he feels like he's back home
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The Vancouver Canucks forward was back at Air Canada Centre on Saturday morning and indicated that he was looking forward to facing his former team. It's the first time Sundin had visited the building since officially parting ways with the Maple Leafs.
Read more »Olympic luge hopeful Alex Gough into piercings, books and speed
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Alex Gough lives two lives.In one, she's an excellent student, a classical guitarist and self-described "nerdy-girl" with her face always in a book.In the other, she's a multi-pierced speed demon whistling down the luge track at more than 100 kilometres per hour.Her coaches have gently suggested Gough remove her lip ring for racing, but it's still there.
Read more »Lords of the Ring
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In Surrey, a first, blood-spattered taste of extreme wrestling.
But when Scotty Mac, the reigning heavyweight champion of Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling, told me that it would be something to see, well, I believed him. For it might be fake, but there would be blood.