Olympics 2010: Best Unconfirmed Rumor
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Olympics 2010: Best Unconfirmed Rumor
[ February 17, 2010 - 6:44pm ]
Cypress Mountain is the home of the freestyle competitions...and Vancouver's transplanted mice?
The fact that snow needed to be trucked in to augment meager conditions is not news. Nor is it newsworthy that straw bales topped with a skin of snow were used to help shape some courses in this temperate climate. But the chatter that rats and mice could be seen falling from straw bales being airlifted in by helicopter is just too good of a Canadian tale to ignore.
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