CBC:
Some of the world’s top athletes had to seek medical attention after competing in what may have been the coldest swim in World Championship Triathlon history in downtown Vancouver.
The preliminary sprint distance race kicked off early Friday morning in unseasonably cool weather when about 600 competitors — lashed by wind and rain — hit the 11-degree water for a 750-metre swim in English Bay.Then, with the air temperature hovering around eight degrees, the athletes jumped on their bikes for a 20-kilometre ride followed by a five-kilometre run through Stanley Park wearing only light Lycra triathlon suits.
That’s when things really got chilly, according to Jeff Hayne, one of the dozens of athletes shivering under a reflective Mylar blanket in the medical tent after the race.
“”It was about as cold as I have done in Canada… even Fort McMurray 12 years ago wasn’t this cold. To get out and get on a fast downhill is what really got you in a bad spot. [During] the run, you finally warm up a little bit,” said Hayne.
Dr. Sam Gutman said it was controlled mayhem in the medical tents at the finish line where many athletes collapsed from hypothermia.
Ambulances had to be used to warm up the athletes because the warming tents were too cold. It got close to the point where it was not safe to continue the event, said Gutman.
Note: resident CBC Fruit Fly Guy was not quoted for this report.
June 5th set a record for the coldest 5th of June ever in Vancouver.
Right now it is 9 on my thermometer and I am downtown in the UHI area.
see for yourself . . . it is wet & cold.
http://www.hejl.com/media/live/
I had the furnace on last night here in central Saskatchewan…
It’s much warmer here, of course, but I doubt that we’ve had ten days in 2008 that have had high temperatures above the historical average. My thermostat, set to 17 degrees Celsius (actually, to 65 degrees Fahrenheit), turned my furnace on yesterday morning.
That should be 18 degrees Celsius, not 17. Some brain cramp this morning.
Just got an email from a friend who competed in that race. Lots of confusion in the water resulted in a number of the participants being held back for an hour or two before event coordinators decided to scratch the swim for the remaining athletes. That hiccup in the swim created problems later in the run and bike with athletes from other classes jamming up with slower competitors. One wonders how Vancouver will handle the Olympics after hearing from my friend.
I had the furnace on last night here in central Saskatchewan…
wimp
Vancouver, the month of April 2008 – coldest in 36 years.
Dr. Mengele Fruitfly was happily at home in his 7 million dollar house on Kitsalano Beach. nary a beard hair out of place and the furnace turned on, the travelling roadshow diesel bus parked in a heated garage ready for the next Brother Al travelling salivation show.
This cold is God’s punishment for BC persecuting Mark Steyn a mere 1km away from the event.
Either that or Mark Steyn has assumed Al Gore’s ability to lower the temperature where ever he goes. Mark left BC last night so hopefully it will warm up for the finals today.
Sheesh cal2, it’s Kitsillano Yacht Club not Beach. All that time spent listening to Pravda has affected your truthfulness.
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When I read about that in the comments earlier, I thought it desreved more attention..
Glad to see it. . . but enable the comments ok.. please? = TG
Damn cold in Kelowna also ! 🙁
And before someone yaps – yes, these and a multitude of other cool weather stories do not necessarily a cooling climate make. No more, that is, than the Suzuki/TWC warming rants.
BTW, anyone on the island ever get a shot of the Kitsillano mansion ? The Tennesse one worked wonders.
In the capital city of the Yukon (Whitehorse) it is snowing. We have had two days in 2008 when the temperature rose into the 20’s. Grim because we had a LONG, cold winter on top of this cold, windy, inhospitable spring. The only revenue that Couton’s ‘Park’ generates comes from tourism. With fuel sky high ($1.40 a litre for a few months now), anti Americanism (tempered a bit with pro Obamaism) blatant, frenzied anti tobacco laws and lots of crime…. look for Premier Fentie to be in Ottawa demanding more $$$ from the rest of you, to feed and water his gument minions – which includes a new former Deputy Min from the failed Dipper gov’t in Sask.! He was imported here to feed – how do you like that Sask?? The headline in Yukon News read “Sask. loss is Yukon’s gain”;
WHITEHORSE – Premier Dennis Fentie announced today that Harvey Brooks has been appointed to the position of Economic Development Deputy Minister, effective July 17, 2008.
Dr. Brooks’ career has focused on economic development, encompassing policy, research, management consulting and management and operations. A former deputy minister of Saskatchewan Agriculture and Food, he has also served that jurisdiction’s government as deputy minister in Government Relations, Highways and Transportation, and Rural Revitalization.
We all know his record in Sask. now Sask. can look forward to feeding this guy in a much more expensive place!
In the early 1990’s, when the Dippers were reigning in Sask., the Sask. Dippers hired Tony Penikett a failed Yukon Dipper Premier (who had the present Premier, Fentie, in his cabinet – Fentie switched Parties a few years later) to run your Land Claims in Sask. We had elected a real Conservative gov’t but the Yukon was already crippled by the greenies, imported in droves by Pennikett, so Sask did not get many $$ from us to feed our exported ‘hungry’ over-sized bolshevik)
When I read this announcement in the Yukon News my first thought was: “It is pay back time for Sask. taxpayers” but then I realized it was just a geographical move – you are still paying him indirectly! Double indemnity – that is the Dipper game – taxpayers can’t get rid of them – they just move.
I apologise to all Sask taxpayers for this lapse of Justice.
I think we should swap cold-credits, it’s 94F here in lovely southern Connecticut and I’d be happy to trade you some serious BTU’s in return for some relief.
(Though we had a nice cool spring.)
I so want to move somewhere cool.
More sounds of Settled Science:
THE NEWS: In a not so subtle segue, the UK Independent ran this headline today: Threat of world Aids pandemic among heterosexuals is over, report admits
“A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.
In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock*, the head of the WHO’s department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.” (*Did NOT make that name up)
THE OBSERVATION: First, wasn’t it settled science that the heterosexual population was doomed? Everybody knew Ronald Reagan was a dolt because everybody knew AIDS wasn’t a “gay disease” and everybody knew that if we didn’t transfer the entire budget of the Pentagon over to medical research WE WERE ALL GOING TO DIE!
Now, let’s re-read that paragraph again: First, wasn’t it settled science that the earth’s population was doomed? Everybody knew George W. Bush was a dolt because everybody knew GLOBAL WARMING was “real” and everybody knew that if we didn’t transfer the entire budget of the Pentagon over to climate research WE WERE ALL GOING TO DIE! (There, that will save time later…)
Pretty funny.
I bet every one of these left coast athaletes believes that goreball warming is the biggest threat facing the planet.
Wouldn’t faze me if one or two of them came to an untimely end due to hypothermia.
Re; Aids crisis overblown.a political agenda.
I lost a cousin in the first round of AIDs, and I took it very hard. Because of this, I did a lot of research on the subject.
From the beginning, it was very obvious that it would be difficult to spread the disease from female to male during penis/vagina intercourse. Unless the male had open sores, it was virtually impossible to transmit from female to male.
Every last one of these experts/activists/medical professionals involved with this disease knew this fact all along.
They decided(criminally, in my opinion)to lie and distort the truth in order to further a political agenda.
And the result is that millions have died because precious resources have been wasted furthering said political agenda.
F#$%ing leftards are responsible for so much death in Africa(aids, malaria, no nuclear power, etc, etc, etc)yet all they seem to do is blame bush(and in Canada, they somehow believe PMSH is responsible)
Here in Ontariairo, for the past 2 days I have not turned on the cars air.
Why you ask,
To save $$$$.
No you ass.
To save gas
No you ass
Its called heat and I love it! My knees now will make it for another 6 months.
Al Gore sells heat pads!
Last nite on Global National the toothless wonder – non other than Ross Lord was bemoaning the huge number of ice bergs in the Nfld region of late. More obvious evidence of Global Warming.
He interviewed various observers but no one asked why there were so many of these ‘bergs in the area. Had they been ‘calved’ into the ocean from the end of a glacier? And if so why? Was it because the glacier was on the move? And if that is so, is it because the glacier is mysteriously growing in the upper regions? And further, if that is so then perhaps the point of origin of the glacier is not warming but rather cooling? And if that is so, oh to hell with it.
Why should some knowlegeable reporter waste his valuable time asking questions or trying to rationalize something foreign to him??
The problem, as illustrated in that picture, is that it’s hot in Toronto. It doesn’t matter that it’s cold in most of the rest of Canada. It’s hot in Toronto. Since the centre of the universe is hot, all of Canada will be deemed to be hot.
Further proof of AGW.
Here in Montana, I noticed today that my neighbors started up their wood stove again. My house is down to 63 degrees right now. The mountains are beautiful with recent new snow.
It has always amazed me that the very people that believe in the hoax, global warming are the same people screaming for a hot weekend and no rain. Ever listened to the media yodeling all week about saving the planet by raising taxes and stopping emmissions but by friday the are the same morons hoping for sun pulling their gas guzzling boat with their gas guzzling truck. Yes I drive a 1 ton but I need it to feed the worthless cattle I own that supply those steaks I hope your all eating.