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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100209/wl_canada_afp/oly2010schwarzeneggerdoping_20100209192401

VANCOUVER (AFP) – Winter Olympics organisers on Tuesday defended their decision to invite Arnold Schwarzenegger to run in the torch relay despite the former movie star's admission that he used drugs in his bodybuilding career.

California governor Schwarzenegger, who will be a torch bearer on Friday in the run-up to the 2010 Games' opening ceremony, confessed in 2005 that he had used steroids on his way to becoming a seven-time Mr Olympia.

But John Furlong, the chief executive of Olympics organising committee VANOC, said that the former Hollywood star will play a crucial role on Friday.

"He has taken an extraordinary position on the environment and has developed a great relationship with the province of British Columbia," said Furlong.

"He is a powerful spokesman and is very popular here. He has been here many times and he helps focus attention on what we are doing."

Schwarzenegger said in 2005 that he opposes steroids, but did not regret using the bodybuilding substances when they were still legal.

"It was a new thing," he said. "So you can't roll the clock back and say: 'No, I would change my mind,' or anything, because for those days that's what we did."








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Re: Gov.Arnold was named as one of torch-bearers at 2010 Winter Olympics
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2010, 08:19:52 AM »

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/12/bc-olympic-relay-final-day.html?ref=rss
Thousands of people turned out before sunrise in Vancouver for a chance to see California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger carry the Olympic torch along the Stanley Park seawall on the star-studded final day of the cross-Canada relay.

Schwarzenegger began his leg with the flame at 7:03 a.m. PT just as the sun began to come up, surrounded by hundreds of screaming fans.




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Re: Gov.Arnold was named as one of torch-bearers at 2010 Winter Olympics
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2010, 09:12:31 AM »
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2010/02/12/bc-olympic-relay-final-day.html?ref=rss
Thousands of people turned out before sunrise in Vancouver for a chance to see California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger carry the Olympic torch along the Stanley Park seawall on the star-studded final day of the cross-Canada relay.

Schwarzenegger began his leg with the flame at 7:03 a.m. PT just as the sun began to come up, surrounded by hundreds of screaming fans.





Looks like he's lighting a big fatty.

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Re: Gov.Arnold was named as one of torch-bearers at 2010 Winter Olympics
« Reply #3 on: February 12, 2010, 09:14:24 AM »
Wonder what his stack was like to prepare for the torch lighting.