An Activist’s Angry Disposition
Will the Vancouver Olympics be contributing to a soiled history? January–February 2009
The motto of author Christopher Shaw’s in-laws is vincit veritas, “truth prevails,” and from his first line of text, this David from British Columbia seeks to strip away the false pretenses that accompanied Goliath Vancouver’s successful bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympics. An ophthalmologist at the University of British Columbia, in Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic …