CANADA
The Tyee
By Bob Mackin, Today, TheTyee.ca
Former Vancouver 2010 CEO John Furlong told court journalist suing him for defamation ‘was trying to destabilize my relationships with the companies.’
On the annual International Olympic Day, the former chief executive of Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Games revealed in B.C. Supreme Court that his wife left their Olympic Village apartment while he slept in a desperate effort to save his reputation.
Deborah Sharp Furlong, who died after a 2013 car crash in Ireland, roamed Vancouver streets and filled his 4×4 with copies of the Sept. 27, 2012 Georgia Straight. The issue contained reporter Laura Robinson’s exposé that alleged Furlong abused gym class students in 1969 and 1970 at an aboriginal elementary school and that his 2011 Patriot Hearts memoir was riddled with inconsistencies. The woman he married that summer was gone three hours, he said.
“She felt she made a contribution,” Furlong said June 23 under cross-examination by Robinson’s lawyer Bryan Baynham in the high-profile defamation trial against Furlong.
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