VANCOUVER, B.C. -- It's Monday in Vancouver and that means four days until opening ceremonies! The Olympics is the ONLY thing the people around here are talking about and not all of it is positive.
Protesters and their anti-Olympic message are very active, so the next couple of weeks are going to be very interesting.
It's warm here! Mildest winter in 81 years making for some headaches at Cypress Mountain, site of the Freestyle skiing and snowboard events. They are having to truck in snow and are using buried pipes packed with dry ice to keep what little snow they have from melting.
We are working out of the new convention building next to the bay in downtown Vancouver. There are over 20 NBC affiliated television stations working here.
All of us share space with NBC networks. Our space is down the hallway from the set that Bob Costas and the other NBC hosts will use to anchor nightly coverage. In the photo you can see the 100-inch HD TV they have on the set. Wow!
Looking forward to our live coverage which begins Tuesday at 10 p.m.
We are meeting today with U.S. Trials Moguls champ Patrick Deneen. He was on the Silver Mountain Ski Team in Kellogg as a teenager and gives much of the credit for his success to the skiing terrain in Idaho that he grew up on.
Much more tomorrow!
