Woodwork of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
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Hello,
Some of you may have seen these on TV already if you have been watching 2010 winter olympics. These medal podiums were built from donated timber from communities and forest companies from around British Columbia and represent a good cross section of our wood species (some hard woods are missing – Red Alder / Western Maple).
http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/news_releases_2009-2013/2010PREM0022-000117.htm
Hopefully everyone will see one of their athletes standing on them during a medal presentation.
I work in the BC Forest Industry and am also an avid wood worker. I find it exciting to see our (BC) wood products show cased in a manner like this. Wood workers around the world whos country may host the olympics should petition their Olympic commities to do the same and allow them to show off their local wood species and skills as well.
Anyways I thought some of you may find this interesting.
Cheers
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more than likely a humongous waste of material. i Imagine that it would have been machined out on a cnc machine
yeah sid,
i still do not think in terms of cnc and such as that. you are probably right. governments seem to put their sunday best on when things wax olympic. we had that here in 1984. crappy freeway off-ramps were hosed off and tiled. lots of tree planting and such. when the show left town we had a few new statues and then 'twas business as usual.
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