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The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the ...
Feb 12, 2010 · The 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games events in Vancouver included curling, figure skating, ice hockey, sledge hockey, short-track speed skating and wheelchair curling. Speed skating took place in Richmond, while the snowboard and freestyle skiing events were hosted at Cypress Mountain in the District of West Vancouver.
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from February 12 to February 28. A total of 2,632 athletes (+124 from 2006 Olympics ) representing 82 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+2 from 2006) participated in 86 events (+2 ...
Official list of medal winners and results by sport at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. Celebrate medal-winning moments by the world's top athletes.
Official medal table of the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Find an alphabetical list of medals and celebrate the achievements of 2010's finest athletes
February 12, 2010 - February 28, 210. Location: British Columbia. Canada. Vancouver. The XXI Olympic Winter Games opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, on February 12 and closed on February 28, 2010.
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games were a success for the Olympic Movement and for the host city, region and country - although, of course, tempered by the tragic death of a young athlete. For the Movement, the Games advanced the cause of universality and expanded the global reach of the world’s
The United States placed first in total medals—its second time doing so in a Winter Games—and set a record for most medals won at a single Winter Olympics, with 37, breaking the previous record of 36, set by Germany in 2002.
January and February 2010 was the warmest winter in Vancouver history and at Cypress Mountain, north of Vancouver, where the freestyle skiing and snowboarding were to be held, there was no snow. The courses could only be maintained by trucking in snow from distant sites.
The Olympics came to Canada for a third time in 2010, as Vancouver was the site of the XXI Olympic Winter Games (Montreal had hosted the Summer Games in 1976 and Calgary the Winter Games in 1988). While the buildup to the Vancouver Games lacked the political tumult of the then-recent Salt Lake City and Beijing Games, there was nevertheless an issue that made the event’s organizers and ...
