Founding member and leading spokesperson for the No Games 2010 Coalition and 2010 Watch, Chris Shaw has written Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games (New Society $19.95), a scathing indictment of the process of acquiring the 2010 Winter Olympics and the motives of guys in suits who, Drapeau-like, have reassured everyone things can't go wrong, or over-budget.

Chris Shaw has written extensively for various publications about the impact of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games and the Olympics in general. From 2003 to 2006 he was a member of the provincial council of the BC Green party, serving as their media chairperson and later policy analyst. In 2008 he was serving the same functions for the Work Less Party.

Shaw is a professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia. In his field of neurological disease research, he is the author of more than 200 published research articles, reviews and abstracts, and the editor of three books.

BOOKS:

Five Ring Circus: Myths and Realities of the Olympic Games (New Society 2008) 978-0-86571-592-9

[BCBW 2008] "Sports"