When the 2010 Winter Olympics start in Vancouver, BC in just a couple of weeks the athletes and spectators will be joined by organizations with some of the worst records on climate change. 
General Motors is a national partner for the games, and one of the leading corporate opponents of effective action on climate change. Only two years ago, a vice-chairman of GM called global warming a "total crock of shit." GM is supplying a large fleet of vehicles for the games, many of which are gas-guzzling SUVs. 
Petro-Canada, another National Olympic Partner, is the retail arm of the largest extractor of Oil Sands bitumen. The Oil Sands are Canada's biggest ghg emissions point source.
RBC (the Royal Bank of Canada) in addition to being a prominent Olympic sponsor is the largest commercial bank funder of the Oil Sands. TransCanada pipelines, whose pipelines connect to the Oil Sands, is also an official supplier. 
The government of British Columbia is the main funder and promoter of the games. They kicked off a massive plan to add over 1,000 km of new highway lanes (an increase of over 2,000,000 annual tonnes of CO2e emissions) with the Sea-to-Sky Highway expans
ion for the Olympics. These plans include the controversial Gateway Program. It continues to heavily subsidize the oil and gas industry which resulted in it being the only Canadian province to see ghg emissions from industrial sources increase in 2008.
The Federal government of Canada which consistently earned "Fossil Awards" at the most recent international climate talks also is a major funder for the Olympics.
A coalition of environmental activists led by GatewaySucks.org is calling on climate change activists to join the convergence at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.
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On a slightly different note, seriously... McDonalds says "Go for Gold" on their huge adds. Their food is SO unhealthy. Likely there are exactly zero olympic atheletes who eat at McDonalds.
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