Green Olympics? Really?

Medals made of recycled electronics, carbon offsets and more at the Vancouver Olympics. That's nice, but didn't they have to truck in snow because there wasn't enough (climate change?). Trucking in snow is not green and neither is putting together such a massive event every two years that expands so much energy, new construction, grandiose displays, huge numbers of people, etc...

Do you all remember how the Chinese "greened" their Olympics? They forbade car driving before and during the event, to attain an acceptable air quality. After that, it's business as usual.

Let's stop kidding ourselves with green Olympics and let's look for real solutions to our sustainability problem. Or maybe it's that I just don't like figure skating.