# Winter Olympics in Vancouver.   Have the Olympics gone completely off the rails?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [February 4, 2010, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-olympics-in-vancouver-have-the-olympics-gone-completely-off-the-rails/527638 "2010-02-04T04:10:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-olympics-in-vancouver-have-the-olympics-gone-completely-off-the-rails/527638/41 "2010-02-06T05:40:10Z")

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Hold up-I forgot to mention-more helicopters. None playing _Ride of the Valkyries_, dammit

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**Author:** ![RaftPeople](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@RaftPeople](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RaftPeople)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/winter-olympics-in-vancouver-have-the-olympics-gone-completely-off-the-rails/527638/42 "2010-02-06T23:25:50Z")

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> [@appleciders](#):
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> For those of you playing along at home, there’s a Vancouver, WA in the far south of Washington. Its nearest mountain is Mt. St. Helens, an active volcano which blew itself up twenty-odd years ago.

and which killed most of the remaining dinosaurs in the area.

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