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Peter Sellars takes a new direction to Tristan und Isolde

As noted by the Crawford Report, one of the dilemmas in funding elite sport is demonstrating that it has some impact on the activity and health of the general public. Keith Martin, who just sits around most days thinking up ideas, actually came up with a way to address this last November.

During the Olympics, the CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee told an Australian reporter that we owed a great debt to Australia and what it has been doing for some years now to fund its Olympians. In that regard, it is probably worth reviewing the Crawford Report, an extensive study of Australian sport that raised all sorts of questions about pursuing Olympic success and has, subsequently, attracted all sorts of controversy. Among the problematic paragraphs contained therein, this.

Dan Gardner considers the public policy and politics of Olympic sport.

Bob Rennie’s bash drew Iggy, Olympians, and protesters

The 2010 Games will not match the financial success of Calgary ’88—but it’ll make up for it with Gold medals