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Published - Feb 04 2010 12:58 PM

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Vancouver's mayor has played down the threat to next week's winter Olympics posed by the city's unseasonably warm weather. Games organisers have been forced to truck snow to the Cypress Mountain venue from as far as 150 kilometres (93 miles) away to ... Read Full Story

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