Canada loses its Olympic qualifying bid race, surprise, surprise

May 22, 2010

Canada loses its Olympic qualifying bid race, surprise, surprise

If only someone has showed up with a bag of money.

There’ll be more details in a story I’m trying put together in between paragraphs of the daily Bosh tome but Canada lost its bid to host the 2011 Olympic qualification event.

Argentina beat Brazil in the final vote today, Canada was eliminated early because it couldn’t guarantee the financial windfall the other could.

Hardly surprising.

Anyway, just a quick update before I write; watch for more details here later on.

Oh, yeah, Bosh.

Nothing new, really, there’s either a list or there’s not a list, he’s either going to stay or he’s going to go. But things are at a sensitive stage and will be for the next couple of months.

Posted by at 04:14:49 PM in Olympic basketball, Raptors

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my fave 5 destinations 4 Bosh,enjoy:)

TORONTO-30million reasons to smile :)
LAKERS -cause we get back Gasol :)
DALLAS -he goes home,we get the German :)
JERSEY-not even Bosh can say no to a billion over 5 years,lol
TORONTO-Welcome home Wesson

Posted by: jimt | May 22, 2010 at 06:35 PM

Buon compleanno (Happy Birthday) Doug!
Ciao
Paolo

Posted by: Paolo | May 22, 2010 at 08:42 PM

jimt, there is no way the Lakers give up Gasol for Bosh, I am sorry to say bit Pau is better than Bosh. Chris may have nore range on a jumper, but Gasol has a way better pos game, plays way better post defense, and is a supior shot blocker. What benefit would the Lakers get?

Posted by: Bill | May 23, 2010 at 08:10 AM

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Doug Smith has been a sportswriter for more than 30 years, a journey that's included seven Olympic Games, numerous and varied championships and more dreary regular season games than he'd care to remember. Here, he'll talk about them all, as well as current events and pop culture. (Just don’t ask him about music nowadays — it's not his cup of tea).

May 22, 2010