BC Environmental and Occupational Health Research Network

Want to know more about occupational / environmental news around the Beijing or Vancouver games? See the following links:

Beijing

IOC to Keep Air-Quality Numbers Under Wraps, 8/16/08

Beijing Smog Cleanup: Has It Worked?, 8/15/08

Beijing pollution: facts and figures, 7/16/08

Air quality at the Olympics, 7/14/08

Pollution remains hot topic, 7/3/08

Beijing Olympic car ban targets pollution, gridlock, 6/20/08

Experts to assess daily air quality at Olympics, 6/20/08

Australian track athletes shun Olympic opening ceremony, 6/16/08

Beijing to offer precision air quality forecast for Olympic venues, 6/13/08

Heat and humidity, not air pollution to test athletes in Beijing, 6/6/08

Vancouver-Whistler

Official study of 2010 Olympics finds it difficult to measure boons, busts, 12/4/09

Greening the Olympics, 3/4/09

Secret Factories for 2010: VANOC won’t tell sweatshop watchdogs where Olympics gear is made, 6/30/08

Can Vancouver Fend off Olympics Sweatshops? China’s abuses ’a warning bell’ for 2010, 6/20/08

Worst Sports Injury: Worker Abuse: Vanoc, Nike, labour reps to confer at Olympics sweatshop forum, 6/11/08