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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IceBear" data-source="post: 68493" data-attributes="member: 1118">And based on past history, the Canadians complaining didn't make it happen either.  I'm sure there have been many protests lodged by the various countries, including Canada, over the years and I don't think any of them changed anything.I think that this time, it was the luck of timing.  The Olympics are trying to shed their tarnished image of corruption, and thus as soon as their was any mention of a possible problem they started investigating it.I still feel, however, that the American media covered it more than the Canadian media - Entertainment Tonight, the Tonight Show, Larry King, even Crosby, Stills and Nash <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  That, plus the fact that all the parties involved were on American soil and thus were directly exposed to the media didn't hurt.I didn't mean to imply that it was solely the Americans that caused the change.  I think it was mainly the IOC wanting to come off as being squeaky clean.IceBear</blockquote>