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The Globe and Mail

SUNNY DHILLON
VANCOUVER — The Globe and Mail
Published Friday, Sep. 18, 2015

Nearly three years after an article alleged former Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong abused his students when he was a gym teacher – casting a dark cloud over a man who had been much-lauded for his work leading the 2010 Games – a judge has handed him a significant victory, dismissing a defamation lawsuit against him.

B.C. Supreme Court on Friday ruled against freelance journalist Laura Robinson, who sued Mr. Furlong for his response to an article she wrote in the weekly newspaper Georgia Straight. The article accused Mr. Furlong of physically abusing students when he was an instructor at Immaculata Roman Catholic Elementary School in Burns Lake, B.C., in 1969-70. Ms. Robinson published a second article that same day in the Anishinabek News, in which she wrote one…