Full episode - May 19, 2014
Gold medalist Justine Dufour-Lapointe of Canada poses with silver medalist Chloe Dufour-Lapointe. The sisters competed in the women's freestyle skiing moguls at the Sochi Winter Olympics. A Canadian TV host criticized how CBC announcers were pronouncing t

During the Olympics, Canadians are willing to drop their language arguments

When a TV host criticized other announcers for their "pretentious" pronunciations of French names during the Olympics, Canadians of all stripes got upset. For once, the language card didn't work in Canada.
Full episode - February 07, 2014

Here's your handy pronunciation guide to the Sochi Olympics

Sochi, the venue for the Winter Olympics, is usually anglicised as SOTCH-i (-o as in not, -tch as in catch, -i as the "y" in happy)
Full episode - February 06, 2014

How one man's Olympic design influenced your next trip to the public restroom

German designer Otl Aicher created the pictograms for the 1972 Summer Olympic Games in Munich. His design has influenced not only future Olympic pictograms but many signs we see on a daily basis.

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