John Furlong: Vancouver Olympics

Vancouver Whitecaps Dept: VANCOUVER - John Furlong, the man who helmed the Vancouver Olympics, has categorically denied allegations that he physically abused aboriginal students as a teacher at two northern B.C. schools decades ago, and says he plans to sue, according to Winnipeg Free Press. Within hours, Furlong held a news conference with his lawyer to announce legal action and former Vancouver Olympic organizing committee president and CEO John Furlong, left, now Executive Chair of Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps, listens as his lawyer Marvin Storrow reads a statement to respond to allegations of abuse against Furlong brought forward by former First Nations students in Burns Lake dating back to 1969, during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday September 27, 2012. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck The allegations that Furlong hit and kicked students and verbally abused them during his time as a physical education teacher in the late 1960s and early 1970s appeared Thursday in the free Vancouver weekly Georgia Straight. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.