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2010 Winter Olympics

December 22, 2023

"2010 Olympics" redirects here. For the Youth Olympics in Singapore, see 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
"Vancouver 2010" redirects here. For the video game, see Vancouver 2010 (video game). For the Winter Paralympics, see 2010 Winter Paralympics.
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The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXIes 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 surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University of British Columbia, and in the nearby resort town of Whistler. It was regarded by the Olympic Committee to be among the most successful Olympic games in history, in both attendance and coverage.[1] Approximately 2,600 athletes from 82 nations participated in 86 events in fifteen disciplines.[2] Both the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC), headed by John Furlong. The 2010 Winter Games were the third Olympics to be hosted by Canada, and the first to be held within the province of British Columbia. Canada had hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.

XXI Olympic Winter Games
Emblem of the 2010 Winter Olympics
Host cityVancouver, Canada
MottoWith Glowing Hearts
(French: Des plus brillants exploits)
Nations82
Athletes2,626
Events86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
OpeningFebruary 12, 2010
ClosingFebruary 28, 2010
Opened by
Governor General Michaëlle Jean
Cauldron
Catriona Le May Doan
Nancy Greene
Wayne Gretzky
Steve Nash
StadiumBC Place
Winter
Summer
2010 Winter Paralympics

Following Olympic tradition, incumbent Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The flag was raised in a special ceremony on February 28, 2006, and was on display at Vancouver City Hall until the Vancouver opening ceremony. The event was officially opened by Governor General Michaëlle Jean,[3] accompanied by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge.[4]

Vancouver 2010 was immensely successful, with the official Olympic Committee press release citing "Full venues, record public attendance: Over 97% of the 1.54 million tickets available were sold, with 71% to the Canadian public at an average price of $139. Adding in international public ticket sales, the percentage of ticket sales to the public exceeds 75% of all available tickets."[1] Vancouver 2010 also achieved record global television coverage as per the Olympic Committee, more than double the viewership of the preceding Turin 2006 games and triple the available coverage of Salt Lake City 2002, and is "recognized in numerous post Games reports as being among the most widely viewed and well received Games in Olympic history, both in Canada and internationally."[1] Vancouver 2010's gold medal final between Canada and USA "was the most watched hockey game ever with viewership of 114 million viewers around the world."[1]

For the first time, Canada won gold in an official sport as the host nation of the Olympics, having failed to do so in 1976 and 1988 (although Canada won the 1988 woman's curling event in Calgary when it was still only a demonstration sport).[5] Canada clinched their first gold medal on the second day of the competition, first topping the gold medal tally on the second-to-last day of competition, and went on to become the first host nation since Norway in 1952 to lead the gold medal count.[6] Canada broke the record for the most gold medals won at a single Winter Olympics (14), which had been set by the Soviet Union in 1976 and Norway in 2002 (13).[7] The United States won the most medals in total, marking their second time doing so at the Winter Olympics, and broke the record for the most medals won during the Winter Games (37), a record held until then by Germany in 2002 (36).[6] Athletes from Slovakia[8] and Belarus[9] won the first Winter Olympic gold medals for their nations.

Bid and preparations edit

Main article: Bids for the 2010 Winter Olympics
2010 Winter Olympics bidding results
City Nation Round 1 Round 2
Vancouver   Canada 40 56
Pyeongchang   South Korea 51 53
Salzburg   Austria 16 –

The concept of a bid by Vancouver to host the Winter Olympic Games first appeared at the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley, where the Canadian representative of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Sidney Dawes discusses the possibility of hosting a Games in British Columbia if a venue was found near Vancouver.[10] Shortly afterwards, the Garibaldi Olympic Development Association (GODA) was created in order to prepare a bid to host the Winter Games in the region of Mount Garibaldi, near Whistler. In 1961, GODA considered developing a bid for the 1968 Winter Games, but the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) preferred the cities of Calgary and Banff, in Alberta, as the best opportunity for a Canadian bid to succeed.[10] Calgary's candidacy ultimately failed, and the 1968 Games were awarded to Grenoble.[11]

A development program for the Whistler and Mount Garibaldi region was then launched to host the 1972 Games. It included the development of road infrastructure, electrical network and drinking water, which was still absent in this region.[12] But once again, Banff was chosen to represent Canada as the potential host city for the 1972 Games, which are eventually awarded to Sapporo, Japan.[11] In 1968, the GODA was finally chosen by the Canadian Olympic Committee with the aim of making a joint candidacy with the city of Vancouver for the organization of the 1976 Winter Olympics. However, the chances of Vancouver's candidacy dwindled when Montreal is selected to host the 1976 Summer Olympics, and the Vancouver-Garibaldi candidacy is thus eliminated in the first round of voting.[12] Vancouver is again a candidate for the 1980 Games, but withdraws at the last moment.[citation needed] For 1988 Winter Olympics, Calgary is chosen as the preferred site for the Canadian bid,[13] and Calgary wins the election and thus becomes the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympics.

The Canadian Olympic Association chose Vancouver as the Canadian candidate city over Calgary, which sought to re-host the Games, and Quebec City, which had lost the 2002 Olympic bid in 1995. On the first round of voting on November 21, 1998, Vancouver-Whistler had 26 votes, Quebec City had 25 and Calgary had 21. On December 3, 1998, the second and final round of voting occurred between the two leading contenders, which saw Vancouver win with 40 votes compared to Quebec City's 32 votes. Vancouver had also bid for the 1976 games, which were first awarded to Denver, then to Innsbruck and the 1980 games, which were awarded to Lake Placid.

After the bribery scandal over the candidacy of the Salt Lake City bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics (which resulted in Quebec City asking for compensation (C$8 million) for its unsuccessful bid),[14] many of the rules of the bidding process were changed in 1999. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) created the Evaluation Commission, which was appointed on October 24, 2002. Prior to the bidding for the 2008 Summer Olympics, host cities would often fly members of the IOC to their city where they toured the city and were provided with gifts. The lack of oversight and transparency often led to allegations of money for votes. Afterward, changes brought forth by the IOC bidding rules were tightened, and more focused on technical aspects of candidate cities. The team analyzed the candidate city features and provided its input back to the IOC.

Vancouver won the bid to host the Olympics by a vote of the International Olympic Committee on July 2, 2003, at the 115th IOC Session held in Prague, Czech Republic. The result was announced by IOC President Jacques Rogge.[15] Vancouver faced two other finalists shortlisted that same February: Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Salzburg, Austria. Pyeongchang had the most votes of the three cities in the first round of voting, in which Salzburg was eliminated. In the run-off, all but two of the members who had voted for Salzburg voted for Vancouver. It was the closest vote by the IOC since Sydney, Australia beat Beijing for the 2000 Summer Olympics by two votes. Vancouver's victory came almost two years after Toronto's 2008 Summer Olympic bid was defeated by Beijing in a landslide vote.

The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) spent C$16.6 million on upgrading facilities at Cypress Mountain, which hosted the freestyle (aerials, moguls, ski cross) and snowboarding events. With the opening in February 2009 of the C$40 million Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre at Hillcrest Park, which hosted curling, every sports venue for the 2010 Games was completed on time and at least one year prior to the Games.[16][17] Pyeongchang eventually hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Financials edit

Operations edit

In 2004, the operational cost of the 2010 Winter Olympics was estimated to be Canadian $1.354 billion (about £828,499,787, €975,033,598 or US$1,314,307,896). As of mid-2009 it was projected to be C$1.76 billion,[18] mostly raised from non-government sources,[18] primarily through sponsorships and the auction of national broadcasting rights. C$580 million was the taxpayer-supported budget to construct or renovate venues throughout Vancouver and Whistler. A final audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers released in December 2010 revealed total operation cost to have been $1.84 billion and came in on budget resulting in neither surplus nor deficit. Construction of venues also came on budget with a total cost of $603 million.[19]

PricewaterhouseCoopers' study estimated a total contribution to the BC economy of $2.3 billion of Gross Domestic Product, and as well creating 45,000 jobs and contributing an additional $463 million to the tourism industry while venue construction by VANOC and 3rd parties added $1.22 billion to the economy, far short of the $10 billion forecast by Premier Gordon Campbell. The study also said that hosting the Olympics was one of many reasons why the provincial debt grew by $24 billion during the decade. Non direct olympics games cost (e.g. expanded rail network, highways, security, paid time off for government employees "volunteering" etc.) cost in excess of 7 billion.[20] In 2011, the provincial auditor-general declined to conduct a post-Games audit.[21]

Security costs edit

C$200 million was expected to be spent for security, which was organized through a special body, the Integrated Security Unit, of which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) was the lead agency; other government agencies such as the Vancouver Police Department, Canada Border Services Agency, Canadian Forces, and police agencies across Canada. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) also played a role. That number was later revealed to be in the region of C$1 billion, an amount in excess of five times what was originally estimated.[22]

Venues edit

 
Olympic sites map
 
Richmond Olympic Oval: speed skating long track venue
Main article: Venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics

Some venues, including the Richmond Olympic Oval, were at sea level, a rarity for the Winter Games.[23] The 2010 Games were also the first—Winter or Summer—to have had an Opening Ceremony held indoors.[24] Greater Vancouver was the most populous metropolitan area ever to hold the Winter Games.[25] In February, the month when the Games were held, Vancouver has an average temperature of 4.8 °C (40.6 °F).[26] The average temperature as measured at Vancouver International Airport was 7.1 °C (44.8 °F) for the month of February 2010.[27]

The opening and closing ceremonies were held at BC Place Stadium, which received over C$150 million in major renovations. Competition venues in Greater Vancouver included the Pacific Coliseum, the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre, the UBC Winter Sports Centre, the Richmond Olympic Oval and Cypress Mountain. GM Place, now known as Rogers Arena, played host to ice hockey events, being renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the Games since corporate sponsorship is not allowed for an Olympic venue.[28] Renovations included the removal of advertising from the ice surface and conversion of some seating to accommodate the media.[28] The 2010 Winter Olympics marked the first time an Olympic hockey game was played on a rink sized according to NHL rules instead of international specifications. Competition venues in Whistler included Whistler Creekside at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, the Whistler Olympic Park, the Whistler Celebration Plaza and the Whistler Sliding Centre.

The 2010 Winter Games marked the first time that the energy consumption of the Olympic venues was tracked in real time and made available to the public. Energy data was collected from the metering and building automation systems of nine of the Olympic venues and was displayed online through the Venue Energy Tracker project.[29]

Marketing edit

See also: 2010 Winter Olympics marketing

Media coverage edit

See also: List of 2010 Winter Olympics broadcasters

The Olympic Games in Vancouver were broadcast worldwide by a number of television broadcasters. As rights for the 2010 Games have been packaged with those for the 2012 Summer Olympics, broadcasters were largely identical for both events.

The host broadcaster was Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver, a subsidiary of the IOC's new in-house broadcasting unit Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS). The 2010 Olympics marked the first Games where the host broadcasting facilities were provided solely by OBS.[30] The executive director of Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver was Nancy Lee, a former producer and executive for CBC Sports.[31] The official broadcast theme was a piece called "City of Ice" composed by Rob May and Simon Hill.[32]

In Canada, the Games were the first Olympic Games broadcast by a new Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium led by CTVglobemedia and Rogers Media, displacing previous broadcaster CBC Sports. Main English-language coverage was shown on the CTV Television Network, while supplementary programming was mainly shown on TSN and Rogers Sportsnet. Main French-language coverage was shown on V and RDS.[33]

NBC Universal networks televised the 2010 Winter Olympics in the United States, under a contract in which it paid US$2.2 billion for the rights to the Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics. Advertising sales had slowed in comparison to previous Olympics due to the ongoing recession, and NBC projected a financial loss upwards of $250 million on the Games.[34][35][36] Due to the growth of social media, NBC faced particular criticism for its traditional practice of tape delaying network coverage of the Olympics for the west coast—a practice that was made more egregious by the fact that these Games took place at sites within the Pacific Time Zone.[36] In April 2010, the network reported a financial loss of $233 million on the Games.[37]

The Associated Press (AP) announced that it would send 120 reporters, photographers, editors and videographers to cover the Games on behalf of the country's news media.[38] The cost of their Olympics coverage prompted AP to make a "real departure for the wire service's online coverage". Rather than simply providing content, it partnered with more than 900 newspapers and broadcasters who split the ad revenue generated from an AP-produced multi-media package of video, photos, statistics, stories and a daily Webcast.[38] AP's coverage included a microsite with web widgets facilitating integration with social networking and bookmarking services.[39]

In France, the Games were covered by France Télévisions, which included continuous live coverage on its website.[40]

Torch relay edit

 
The clock counting down to the opening of the Olympic Games in Downtown Vancouver
Main article: 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay

The Olympic Torch Relay is the transfer of the Olympic flame from Ancient Olympia, Greece — where the first Olympic Games were held thousands of years ago — to the stadium of the city hosting the current Olympic Games. The flame arrives just in time for the Opening Ceremony.

For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the flame was lit in Olympia on October 22, 2009.[citation needed] It then traveled from Greece, over the North Pole to Canada's High Arctic and on to the West Coast and Vancouver. The relay started its long Canada journey from the British Columbia capital of Victoria. In Canada, the torch traveled approximately 45,000 kilometres (28,000 mi) over 106 days, making it the longest relay route within one country in Olympic history. The Olympic Torch was carried by approximately 12,000 Canadians and reached over 1,000 communities.[41][42]

Celebrity torchbearers included Arnold Schwarzenegger,[43] Steve Nash,[44] Matt Lauer,[45] Justin Morneau,[46] Michael Bublé,[47] Bob Costas,[48] Shania Twain,[49] and hockey greats including Sidney Crosby,[50] Wayne Gretzky,[51] and the captains of the two Vancouver Canucks teams that went to the Stanley Cup Finals: Trevor Linden (1994)[52] and Stan Smyl (1982).[53]

The Games edit

Participating National Olympic Committees edit

82 National Olympic Committees (NOC) entered teams in the 2010 Winter Olympics.[54] Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, Peru and Serbia made their winter Olympic debuts. Also Jamaica, Mexico and Morocco returned to the Games after missing the Turin Games. Tonga sought to make its Winter Olympic debut by entering a single competitor in luge, attracting some media attention, but he crashed in the final round of qualifying.[55] Luxembourg qualified two athletes[56] but did not participate because one did not reach the criteria set by the NOC[57] and the other was injured[58] before the Games. Below is a map of the participating nations and a list of the nations with the number of competitors indicated in brackets.[59]

 
2010 Winter Olympics Participants
Participating National Olympic Committees

Sports edit

The 2010 Winter Olympics featured 86 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports.

  1. Biathlon
  2. Bobsleigh
  3. Curling
  4. Ice hockey
  5. Luge
  6. Skating
  7. Skiing

Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline.

The opening and closing ceremonies and the events categorized as ice sports (excluding bobsleigh, luge and skeleton) were held in Vancouver and Richmond. The sports categorized as "Nordic events" were held in the Callaghan Valley located just to the west of Whistler. All alpine skiing events were held on Whistler Mountain (Creekside) and sliding events (bobsleigh, luge and skeleton) were held on Blackcomb Mountain. Cypress Mountain (located in Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver) hosted the freestyle skiing (aerials, moguls and ski cross), and all snowboard events (half-pipe, parallel giant slalom, snowboard cross).

 
Sidney Crosby celebrates moments after scoring the gold medal-winning goal over the United States.

Vancouver 2010 was also the first winter Olympics in which both men's and women's hockey were played on a narrower, NHL-sized ice rink,[60] measuring 200 ft × 85 ft (61 m × 26 m), instead of the international size of 200 ft × 98.5 ft (61.0 m × 30.0 m). The games were played at General Motors Place (now Rogers Arena), home of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks, which was temporarily renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the Olympics. Utilizing this existing venue instead of building a new international-sized ice rink facility saved C$10 million in construction costs and allowed an additional 35,000 spectators to attend Olympic hockey games.[60] However, some European countries expressed concern over this decision, worried that it might give North American players an advantage since they grew up playing on the smaller NHL-sized rinks.[61] By contrast, the only other NHL venue to host Olympic hockey, the Calgary Flames' Olympic Saddledome, started construction before Calgary won the bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics and it was designed to accommodate an international ice rink.

There were a number of events that were proposed to be included in the 2010 Winter Olympics.[62] On November 28, 2006, the IOC Executive Board at their meeting in Kuwait voted to include ski cross in the official program.[63] The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) subsequently approved the event to officially be part of the Games program.[64]

Events proposed for inclusion but ultimately rejected included:[65]

The issue over women's ski jumping being excluded ended up in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver during April 21–24, 2009, with a verdict on July 10 excluding women's ski jumping from the 2010 Games. [66] A request to appeal that verdict to the Supreme Court of Canada was subsequently denied on December 22 – a decision that marked the end of any hopes that the event would be held during Vancouver 2010.[67] To alleviate the exclusion, VANOC organizers invited women from all over Canada to participate at Whistler Olympic Park, including Continental Cup in January 2009.[66] Women's ski jumping was included in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Calendar edit

All times are in Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8)
See also: Chronological summary of the 2010 Winter Olympics

In the following calendar for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, each blue box indicates that an event competition, such as a qualification round, was held on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport were held with the number in these boxes representing the number of finals that were contested on that day.[68]

OC Opening ceremony ● Event competitions 1 Event finals EG Exhibition gala CC Closing ceremony
February 12th
Fri 		13th
Sat 		14th
Sun 		15th
Mon 		16th
Tue 		17th
Wed 		18th
Thu 		19th
Fri 		20th
Sat 		21st
Sun 		22nd
Mon 		23rd
Tue 		24th
Wed 		25th
Thu 		26th
Fri 		27th
Sat 		28th
Sun 		Events
  Ceremonies OC CC —
  Alpine skiing 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ● 1 1 1 10
  Biathlon 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 10
  Bobsleigh ● 1 ● 1 ● 1 3
  Cross country skiing 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 12
  Curling ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 1 2
  Figure skating ● 1 ● 1 ● ● 1 ● 1 EG 4
  Freestyle skiing 1 1 ● 1 ● 1 1 1 6
  Ice hockey ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● 1 ● ● 1 2
  Luge ● 1 ● 1 1 3
  Nordic combined 1 1 1 3
  Short track speed skating 1 1 2 1 3 8
  Skeleton ● 2 2
  Ski jumping ● 1 ● 1 1 3
  Snowboarding 1 1 1 1 1 1 6
  Speed skating 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ● 2 12
Daily medal events 5 5 6 5 7 6 4 6 6 4 5 5 6 7 7 2 86
Cumulative total 5 10 16 21 28 34 38 44 50 54 59 64 70 77 84 86
February 12th
Fri 		13th
Sat 		14th
Sun 		15th
Mon 		16th
Tue 		17th
Wed 		18th
Thu 		19th
Fri 		20th
Sat 		21st
Sun 		22nd
Mon 		23rd
Tue 		24th
Wed 		25th
Thu 		26th
Fri 		27th
Sat 		28th
Sun 		Total events

Medal table edit

 
Bronze Medal of 2010 Winter Olympics
Main article: 2010 Winter Olympics medal table

The top ten listed NOCs by number of gold medals are listed below. The host nation, Canada, is highlighted.

  Host country (Canada)

To sort this table by nation, total medal count, or any other column, click on the   icon next to the column title.

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Canada (CAN)*147526
2  Germany (GER)1013730
3  United States (USA)9151337
4  Norway (NOR)98623
5  South Korea (KOR)66214
6  Switzerland (SUI)6039
7  China (CHN)52411
  Sweden (SWE)52411
9  Austria (AUT)46616
10  Netherlands (NED)4138
Totals (10 entries)726053185

Concerns and controversies edit

Main article: Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Winter Olympics

Some in the foreign press, including London 2012 organizers, had criticized the lack of city decorations to acknowledge that Vancouver was the host of the Games. The original plans to decorate the city in Olympic colours, a tradition followed by other recent Games host cities, were canceled for several reasons. Anti-Games activists repeatedly vandalized the existing 2010 Olympics monuments such as the countdown clock, forcing the city to install CCTV cameras, and adding more Games decorations would have inevitably required more security presence to deter protesters, so VANOC opted to minimize these symbols to avoid making the city a police state. Besides local opposition, budget cutbacks also forced the organizers to scale back on the elaborate plans.[69]

VANOC initially benefited from an economic boom and was able to secure lucrative and record domestic sponsorships, but this boom also resulted in rapidly rising construction and labour costs. Due to these factors, as well as the late 2000s financial crisis and economic recession, VANOC built minimalistic functional venues with little aesthetic appeal though they were well-designed for post-Games usage. This approach, as well as the fact that most of the infrastructure already existed, meant that the direct costs of the Vancouver Games were much lower than recent Olympic games.[69]

Before the Games began and as they commenced, a number of concerns and controversies surfaced and received media attention. Hours before the opening ceremony, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run, intensifying questions about the safety of the course and prompting[70] organizers to implement quick modifications. Immediately after the accident, officials attributed it to an athlete error rather than a track deficiency.[71] The International Luge Federation called an emergency meeting after the accident, and all other training runs were cancelled for the day.[72] The President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, thanked the hosts for the way that they handled Kumaritashvili's death which included a moment of silence and a tribute to Kumaritashvili at the opening ceremony.[73]

One critic[74] questioned the choice of Cypress Mountain as a venue because of its potential lack of snow due to the 2009-10 El Niño. Because of this possibility, organizers had a contingency plan to truck in snow from Manning Park, about 250 kilometres (160 mi) to the east of the city. This allowed events to proceed as planned.[75]

Political decisions involving cancellation of promised low-income housing and the creation of a community of mixed economic backgrounds for post-Games use of the athletes' village was criticized.[76]

Opening ceremonies were stalled while organizers dealt with mechanical problems during the cauldron lighting ceremony.[77] Speed skating events were delayed due to breakdowns of the ice resurfacers supplied by Olympia, an official sponsor of the Games.[78]

Thousands of tickets were voided by organizers when weather conditions made standing-room-only areas unsafe.[79] Visitors were also upset that, as in past Olympics, medal ceremonies required separate admission[79] and blocks of VIP tickets reserved for sponsors and dignitaries were unused at events.[80] Other glitches and complaints have included confusion by officials at the start of the February 16 men's and women's biathlon pursuit races, and restricted access to the Olympic flame cauldron on the Vancouver waterfront.[81][82]

Opposition edit

Opposition to the Olympic Games was expressed by activists and politicians, including Lower Mainland mayors Derek Corrigan[83] and Richard Walton.[84] Many of the public pre-Olympic events held in Vancouver were attended by protesters.[85]

On Saturday, February 13, as part of a week-long Anti-Olympic Convergence, protesters smashed windows of the Downtown Vancouver location of The Hudson's Bay department store.[86][87] Protesters later argued that the Hudson's Bay Company, "has been a symbol of colonial oppression for centuries" as well as a major sponsor of the 2010 Olympics.[88]

Some of the issues reflected in the opposition continue the themes identified in opposition to all Olympic games, some of which are outlined in anti-Olympics activist and Professor of Sociology Helen Jefferson Lenskyj's books Olympic Industry Resistance (2007) and Inside the Olympic Industry (2000), which examined a number of different Olympic Games prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics.[89] These issues of concern, underlying the opposition to any and all Olympic Games, include:

First Nations opposition edit

Although the Aboriginal governments of the Squamish, Musqueam, Lil'wat and Tsleil-Waututh (the "Four Host First Nations"), on whose traditional territory the Games were held, signed a protocol in 2004[97] in support of the games,[98] there was opposition to the Olympics from some indigenous groups and supporters. Although the Lil'wat branch of the St'at'imc Nation is a co-host of the Games, a splinter group from the Seton band known as the St'at'imc of Sutikalh, who have also opposed the Cayoosh Ski Resort, feared the Olympics would bring unwanted tourism and real estate sales to their territory.[99][100]

Local aboriginal people, as well as Canadian Inuit, initially expressed concern over the choice of an inukshuk as the symbol of the Games, with some Inuit leaders such as former Nunavut Commissioner Peter Irniq stating that the inukshuk is a culturally important symbol to them. He said that the "Inuit never build inuksuit with head, legs and arms. I have seen inuksuit [built] more recently, 100 years maybe by non-Inuit in Nunavut, with head, legs and arms. These are not called inuksuit. These are called inunguat, imitation of man."[101] Local aboriginal groups also expressed annoyance that the design did not reflect the Coast Salish and Interior Salish native culture from the region the Games are being held in, but rather that of the Inuit, who are indigenous to the Arctic far from Vancouver.

Doping edit

On March 11, 2010, it was reported that the Polish cross country skier Kornelia Marek was tested positive for EPO by the Polish Olympic Committee. If found guilty of doping by the International Olympic Committee, Marek and the relay teams would be disqualified and stripped of their Vancouver results. She would also be banned from the next Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.

Marek denied taking any banned substances, but the backup "B" sample from the Vancouver doping lab confirmed the "A" sample.[102]

On October 9, 2017, the IOC announced that three positive doping cases had been found from their re-analysis programme from the 2010 games. All three cases belonged to the same athlete, whose identity was not released at the time. The IOC had re-tested 1,195 urine samples from the games out of the 1,710 taken, which equates to 70%, as part of their re-analysis programme.[103] Weeks later, the athlete was confirmed to be Slovenian biathlete Teja Gregorin.[104]

Mascots edit

Main article: Miga, Quatchi, Sumi and Mukmuk

The mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics are a spirit bear named Miga and a Sasquatch named Quatchi.

Legacy edit

 
Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper and Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Heads of State Reception

The massive celebratory crowds in downtown Vancouver were highly praised by the IOC. Jacques Rogge, the president of IOC, indicated that "the way Vancouver embraced these Games was extraordinary. This is really something unique and has given a great atmosphere for these Games."[105][106] The atmosphere surrounding the Olympics, and its inclusion of foreign delegates and guests, was also praised, with many seasoned Winter Olympic observers putting the games at, or near, the top of the list of best ever Winter Olympics.[107] They were also the best watched Winter Olympics since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer.[108] They are also mentioned alongside the Sydney 2000 Summer games in regards to the best atmosphere. A large part is credited to the citizens of Vancouver, British Columbia and Canada.[109]

Some members of the media (mostly, and particularly the British media) criticized the Own the Podium and criticized the celebrations as having been somewhat nationalistic,[110][111] but this was not an opinion shared by many. Some suggested that the British media were making these criticisms in order to make the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics more appealing.[112] Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the 2012 London Olympic Games Organizing Committee, attended the Vancouver Olympics to see how the city coped with the challenges of hosting. Lord Coe noted the Games had "gradually recovered from its tumultuous start" and queried that he "never thought the British would find rivals in their preoccupation with the weather which is almost elevated to an Olympic event" as he credited VANOC for meeting unforeseen challenges such as the unseasonably warm weather of Cypress Mountain. Coe added "Rarely have I seen a host city so passionate and so ready to embrace the Games".[73][113]

The Vancouver Olympics also organized and hosted the first Pride House for LGBT athletes in the history of the event.[114][115][116]

Funding edit

Directly as a result of Canada's medal performance at the 2010 Olympics, the Government of Canada announced in the 2010 federal budget, a new commitment of $34 million over the next two years towards programs for athletes planning to compete in future Olympics.[117] This is in addition to the $11 million per year federal government commitment to the Own the Podium program.

Also, as a result of hosting the 2010 Olympics, the British Columbia government pledged to restore funding for sports programs and athlete development to 2008 levels, which amounts to $30 million over three years.[118]

Usage of venues after the Olympic Games edit

Unlike at previous Games, all new venues were designed with their post-Games use in mind. The Richmond Olympic Oval was converted from a speed skating oval into an indoor multi sports centre,[119] the Hillcrest Centre is now a multi purpose community centre with hockey rink and swimming pool[120] and Whistler Olympic Park is used for public recreation, athlete training as well as competition events.[121]

See also edit

Notes edit

A. Miga and Quatchi were mascots for the Olympic Games, while Sumi was the mascot for the Paralympic Games. Mukmuk is considered a sidekick, not a full mascot.

References edit

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Official Reports
  • Government of Canada (2010). The Government Of Canada and The 2010 Vancouver Olympic And Paralympic Winter Games: Canada's Games. Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. ISBN 978-1-100-15721-4.
  • VANOC (November 2009). Vancouver 2010: Bid Report. Official Report of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. VANOC.
  • VANOC (September 2010). Vancouver 2010: Staging the Olympic Winter Games, Knowledge report. Official Report of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. VANOC.
  • VANOC (2010). Vancouver 2010: Sustainability report: 2009–10. Official Report of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. VANOC.
  • VANOC (December 17, 2010). Consolidated Financial Statements: Vancouver Organizing Committee For The 2010 Olympic And Paralympic Winter Games: For The Cumulative Period From September 30, 2003 (Incorporation) To July 31, 2010. VANOC Annual Report. VANOC.
Other works
  • Monnin, Éric (2014). De Chamonix à Sotchi: Un siècle d'olympisme en hiver [From Chamonix to Sochi: A Century of Olympism in Winter] (in French). Paris: DESIRIS. ISBN 978-2-36403-066-4.

External links edit

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 2010 Winter Olympics.
 
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Vancouver 2010.
 
Wikinews has news related to:
Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
  • "Vancouver 2010". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
  • Vancouver Olympic Committee's channel on YouTube

Further reading edit

  • David Wallechinsky; David Wallechinsky & Jaime Loucky (October 9, 2009). The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics (8th ed.). D&M Publishers Incorporated. ISBN 978-1-55365-502-2. Retrieved January 28, 2012.
Winter Olympics
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2010, winter, olympics, 2010, olympics, redirects, here, youth, olympics, singapore, 2010, summer, youth, olympics, vancouver, 2010, redirects, here, video, game, vancouver, 2010, video, game, winter, paralympics, 2010, winter, paralympics, canada, 2010, redir. 2010 Olympics redirects here For the Youth Olympics in Singapore see 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Vancouver 2010 redirects here For the video game see Vancouver 2010 video game For the Winter Paralympics see 2010 Winter Paralympics Canada 2010 redirects here For the events in 2010 in Canada see 2010 in Canada The 2010 Winter Olympics officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games French XXIes Jeux olympiques d hiver and also known as Vancouver 2010 Squamish K emk emelay 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 surrounding suburbs of Richmond West Vancouver and the University of British Columbia and in the nearby resort town of Whistler It was regarded by the Olympic Committee to be among the most successful Olympic games in history in both attendance and coverage 1 Approximately 2 600 athletes from 82 nations participated in 86 events in fifteen disciplines 2 Both the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games were organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee VANOC headed by John Furlong The 2010 Winter Games were the third Olympics to be hosted by Canada and the first to be held within the province of British Columbia Canada had hosted the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal Quebec and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary Alberta XXI Olympic Winter GamesEmblem of the 2010 Winter OlympicsHost cityVancouver CanadaMottoWith Glowing Hearts French Des plus brillants exploits Nations82Athletes2 626Events86 in 7 sports 15 disciplines OpeningFebruary 12 2010ClosingFebruary 28 2010Opened byGovernor General Michaelle JeanCauldronCatriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne GretzkySteve NashStadiumBC PlaceWinter Turin 2006Sochi 2014 Summer Beijing 2008London 2012 2010 Winter ParalympicsFollowing Olympic tradition incumbent Vancouver mayor Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin Italy The flag was raised in a special ceremony on February 28 2006 and was on display at Vancouver City Hall until the Vancouver opening ceremony The event was officially opened by Governor General Michaelle Jean 3 accompanied by the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and International Olympic Committee IOC president Jacques Rogge 4 Vancouver 2010 was immensely successful with the official Olympic Committee press release citing Full venues record public attendance Over 97 of the 1 54 million tickets available were sold with 71 to the Canadian public at an average price of 139 Adding in international public ticket sales the percentage of ticket sales to the public exceeds 75 of all available tickets 1 Vancouver 2010 also achieved record global television coverage as per the Olympic Committee more than double the viewership of the preceding Turin 2006 games and triple the available coverage of Salt Lake City 2002 and is recognized in numerous post Games reports as being among the most widely viewed and well received Games in Olympic history both in Canada and internationally 1 Vancouver 2010 s gold medal final between Canada and USA was the most watched hockey game ever with viewership of 114 million viewers around the world 1 For the first time Canada won gold in an official sport as the host nation of the Olympics having failed to do so in 1976 and 1988 although Canada won the 1988 woman s curling event in Calgary when it was still only a demonstration sport 5 Canada clinched their first gold medal on the second day of the competition first topping the gold medal tally on the second to last day of competition and went on to become the first host nation since Norway in 1952 to lead the gold medal count 6 Canada broke the record for the most gold medals won at a single Winter Olympics 14 which had been set by the Soviet Union in 1976 and Norway in 2002 13 7 The United States won the most medals in total marking their second time doing so at the Winter Olympics and broke the record for the most medals won during the Winter Games 37 a record held until then by Germany in 2002 36 6 Athletes from Slovakia 8 and Belarus 9 won the first Winter Olympic gold medals for their nations Contents 1 Bid and preparations 2 Financials 2 1 Operations 2 2 Security costs 3 Venues 4 Marketing 5 Media coverage 6 Torch relay 7 The Games 7 1 Participating National Olympic Committees 7 2 Sports 7 3 Calendar 7 4 Medal table 8 Concerns and controversies 8 1 Opposition 8 1 1 First Nations opposition 8 2 Doping 9 Mascots 10 Legacy 10 1 Funding 10 2 Usage of venues after the Olympic Games 11 See also 12 Notes 13 References 14 External links 15 Further readingBid and preparations editMain article Bids for the 2010 Winter Olympics 2010 Winter Olympics bidding results City Nation Round 1 Round 2Vancouver nbsp Canada 40 56Pyeongchang nbsp South Korea 51 53Salzburg nbsp Austria 16 The concept of a bid by Vancouver to host the Winter Olympic Games first appeared at the 1960 Games in Squaw Valley where the Canadian representative of the International Olympic Committee IOC Sidney Dawes discusses the possibility of hosting a Games in British Columbia if a venue was found near Vancouver 10 Shortly afterwards the Garibaldi Olympic Development Association GODA was created in order to prepare a bid to host the Winter Games in the region of Mount Garibaldi near Whistler In 1961 GODA considered developing a bid for the 1968 Winter Games but the Canadian Olympic Committee COC preferred the cities of Calgary and Banff in Alberta as the best opportunity for a Canadian bid to succeed 10 Calgary s candidacy ultimately failed and the 1968 Games were awarded to Grenoble 11 A development program for the Whistler and Mount Garibaldi region was then launched to host the 1972 Games It included the development of road infrastructure electrical network and drinking water which was still absent in this region 12 But once again Banff was chosen to represent Canada as the potential host city for the 1972 Games which are eventually awarded to Sapporo Japan 11 In 1968 the GODA was finally chosen by the Canadian Olympic Committee with the aim of making a joint candidacy with the city of Vancouver for the organization of the 1976 Winter Olympics However the chances of Vancouver s candidacy dwindled when Montreal is selected to host the 1976 Summer Olympics and the Vancouver Garibaldi candidacy is thus eliminated in the first round of voting 12 Vancouver is again a candidate for the 1980 Games but withdraws at the last moment citation needed For 1988 Winter Olympics Calgary is chosen as the preferred site for the Canadian bid 13 and Calgary wins the election and thus becomes the first Canadian city to host the Winter Olympics The Canadian Olympic Association chose Vancouver as the Canadian candidate city over Calgary which sought to re host the Games and Quebec City which had lost the 2002 Olympic bid in 1995 On the first round of voting on November 21 1998 Vancouver Whistler had 26 votes Quebec City had 25 and Calgary had 21 On December 3 1998 the second and final round of voting occurred between the two leading contenders which saw Vancouver win with 40 votes compared to Quebec City s 32 votes Vancouver had also bid for the 1976 games which were first awarded to Denver then to Innsbruck and the 1980 games which were awarded to Lake Placid After the bribery scandal over the candidacy of the Salt Lake City bid for the 2002 Winter Olympics which resulted in Quebec City asking for compensation C 8 million for its unsuccessful bid 14 many of the rules of the bidding process were changed in 1999 The International Olympic Committee IOC created the Evaluation Commission which was appointed on October 24 2002 Prior to the bidding for the 2008 Summer Olympics host cities would often fly members of the IOC to their city where they toured the city and were provided with gifts The lack of oversight and transparency often led to allegations of money for votes Afterward changes brought forth by the IOC bidding rules were tightened and more focused on technical aspects of candidate cities The team analyzed the candidate city features and provided its input back to the IOC Vancouver won the bid to host the Olympics by a vote of the International Olympic Committee on July 2 2003 at the 115th IOC Session held in Prague Czech Republic The result was announced by IOC President Jacques Rogge 15 Vancouver faced two other finalists shortlisted that same February Pyeongchang South Korea and Salzburg Austria Pyeongchang had the most votes of the three cities in the first round of voting in which Salzburg was eliminated In the run off all but two of the members who had voted for Salzburg voted for Vancouver It was the closest vote by the IOC since Sydney Australia beat Beijing for the 2000 Summer Olympics by two votes Vancouver s victory came almost two years after Toronto s 2008 Summer Olympic bid was defeated by Beijing in a landslide vote The Vancouver Olympic Committee VANOC spent C 16 6 million on upgrading facilities at Cypress Mountain which hosted the freestyle aerials moguls ski cross and snowboarding events With the opening in February 2009 of the C 40 million Vancouver Olympic Paralympic Centre at Hillcrest Park which hosted curling every sports venue for the 2010 Games was completed on time and at least one year prior to the Games 16 17 Pyeongchang eventually hosted the 2018 Winter Olympics Financials editOperations edit In 2004 the operational cost of the 2010 Winter Olympics was estimated to be Canadian 1 354 billion about 828 499 787 975 033 598 or US 1 314 307 896 As of mid 2009 it was projected to be C 1 76 billion 18 mostly raised from non government sources 18 primarily through sponsorships and the auction of national broadcasting rights C 580 million was the taxpayer supported budget to construct or renovate venues throughout Vancouver and Whistler A final audit conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers released in December 2010 revealed total operation cost to have been 1 84 billion and came in on budget resulting in neither surplus nor deficit Construction of venues also came on budget with a total cost of 603 million 19 PricewaterhouseCoopers study estimated a total contribution to the BC economy of 2 3 billion of Gross Domestic Product and as well creating 45 000 jobs and contributing an additional 463 million to the tourism industry while venue construction by VANOC and 3rd parties added 1 22 billion to the economy far short of the 10 billion forecast by Premier Gordon Campbell The study also said that hosting the Olympics was one of many reasons why the provincial debt grew by 24 billion during the decade Non direct olympics games cost e g expanded rail network highways security paid time off for government employees volunteering etc cost in excess of 7 billion 20 In 2011 the provincial auditor general declined to conduct a post Games audit 21 Security costs edit C 200 million was expected to be spent for security which was organized through a special body the Integrated Security Unit of which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police RCMP was the lead agency other government agencies such as the Vancouver Police Department Canada Border Services Agency Canadian Forces and police agencies across Canada The Canadian Security Intelligence Service CSIS also played a role That number was later revealed to be in the region of C 1 billion an amount in excess of five times what was originally estimated 22 Venues edit nbsp Olympic sites map nbsp Richmond Olympic Oval speed skating long track venueMain article Venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics Some venues including the Richmond Olympic Oval were at sea level a rarity for the Winter Games 23 The 2010 Games were also the first Winter or Summer to have had an Opening Ceremony held indoors 24 Greater Vancouver was the most populous metropolitan area ever to hold the Winter Games 25 In February the month when the Games were held Vancouver has an average temperature of 4 8 C 40 6 F 26 The average temperature as measured at Vancouver International Airport was 7 1 C 44 8 F for the month of February 2010 27 The opening and closing ceremonies were held at BC Place Stadium which received over C 150 million in major renovations Competition venues in Greater Vancouver included the Pacific Coliseum the Vancouver Olympic Paralympic Centre the UBC Winter Sports Centre the Richmond Olympic Oval and Cypress Mountain GM Place now known as Rogers Arena played host to ice hockey events being renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the Games since corporate sponsorship is not allowed for an Olympic venue 28 Renovations included the removal of advertising from the ice surface and conversion of some seating to accommodate the media 28 The 2010 Winter Olympics marked the first time an Olympic hockey game was played on a rink sized according to NHL rules instead of international specifications Competition venues in Whistler included Whistler Creekside at the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort the Whistler Olympic Park the Whistler Celebration Plaza and the Whistler Sliding Centre The 2010 Winter Games marked the first time that the energy consumption of the Olympic venues was tracked in real time and made available to the public Energy data was collected from the metering and building automation systems of nine of the Olympic venues and was displayed online through the Venue Energy Tracker project 29 Marketing editSee also 2010 Winter Olympics marketingMedia coverage editSee also List of 2010 Winter Olympics broadcasters The Olympic Games in Vancouver were broadcast worldwide by a number of television broadcasters As rights for the 2010 Games have been packaged with those for the 2012 Summer Olympics broadcasters were largely identical for both events The host broadcaster was Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver a subsidiary of the IOC s new in house broadcasting unit Olympic Broadcasting Services OBS The 2010 Olympics marked the first Games where the host broadcasting facilities were provided solely by OBS 30 The executive director of Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver was Nancy Lee a former producer and executive for CBC Sports 31 The official broadcast theme was a piece called City of Ice composed by Rob May and Simon Hill 32 In Canada the Games were the first Olympic Games broadcast by a new Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium led by CTVglobemedia and Rogers Media displacing previous broadcaster CBC Sports Main English language coverage was shown on the CTV Television Network while supplementary programming was mainly shown on TSN and Rogers Sportsnet Main French language coverage was shown on V and RDS 33 NBC Universal networks televised the 2010 Winter Olympics in the United States under a contract in which it paid US 2 2 billion for the rights to the Games and the 2012 Summer Olympics Advertising sales had slowed in comparison to previous Olympics due to the ongoing recession and NBC projected a financial loss upwards of 250 million on the Games 34 35 36 Due to the growth of social media NBC faced particular criticism for its traditional practice of tape delaying network coverage of the Olympics for the west coast a practice that was made more egregious by the fact that these Games took place at sites within the Pacific Time Zone 36 In April 2010 the network reported a financial loss of 233 million on the Games 37 The Associated Press AP announced that it would send 120 reporters photographers editors and videographers to cover the Games on behalf of the country s news media 38 The cost of their Olympics coverage prompted AP to make a real departure for the wire service s online coverage Rather than simply providing content it partnered with more than 900 newspapers and broadcasters who split the ad revenue generated from an AP produced multi media package of video photos statistics stories and a daily Webcast 38 AP s coverage included a microsite with web widgets facilitating integration with social networking and bookmarking services 39 In France the Games were covered by France Televisions which included continuous live coverage on its website 40 Torch relay edit nbsp The clock counting down to the opening of the Olympic Games in Downtown VancouverMain article 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay The Olympic Torch Relay is the transfer of the Olympic flame from Ancient Olympia Greece where the first Olympic Games were held thousands of years ago to the stadium of the city hosting the current Olympic Games The flame arrives just in time for the Opening Ceremony For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games the flame was lit in Olympia on October 22 2009 citation needed It then traveled from Greece over the North Pole to Canada s High Arctic and on to the West Coast and Vancouver The relay started its long Canada journey from the British Columbia capital of Victoria In Canada the torch traveled approximately 45 000 kilometres 28 000 mi over 106 days making it the longest relay route within one country in Olympic history The Olympic Torch was carried by approximately 12 000 Canadians and reached over 1 000 communities 41 42 Celebrity torchbearers included Arnold Schwarzenegger 43 Steve Nash 44 Matt Lauer 45 Justin Morneau 46 Michael Buble 47 Bob Costas 48 Shania Twain 49 and hockey greats including Sidney Crosby 50 Wayne Gretzky 51 and the captains of the two Vancouver Canucks teams that went to the Stanley Cup Finals Trevor Linden 1994 52 and Stan Smyl 1982 53 The Games editParticipating National Olympic Committees edit 82 National Olympic Committees NOC entered teams in the 2010 Winter Olympics 54 Cayman Islands Colombia Ghana Montenegro Pakistan Peru and Serbia made their winter Olympic debuts Also Jamaica Mexico and Morocco returned to the Games after missing the Turin Games Tonga sought to make its Winter Olympic debut by entering a single competitor in luge attracting some media attention but he crashed in the final round of qualifying 55 Luxembourg qualified two athletes 56 but did not participate because one did not reach the criteria set by the NOC 57 and the other was injured 58 before the Games Below is a map of the participating nations and a list of the nations with the number of competitors indicated in brackets 59 nbsp 2010 Winter Olympics ParticipantsParticipating National Olympic Committees nbsp Albania 1 nbsp Algeria 1 nbsp Andorra 6 nbsp Argentina 7 nbsp Armenia 4 nbsp Australia 40 nbsp Austria 75 nbsp Azerbaijan 2 nbsp Belarus 47 nbsp Belgium 8 nbsp Bermuda 1 nbsp Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 nbsp Brazil 5 nbsp Bulgaria 19 nbsp Canada 201 host nbsp Cayman Islands 1 nbsp Chile 3 nbsp China 86 nbsp Chinese Taipei 1 nbsp Colombia 1 nbsp Croatia 19 nbsp Cyprus 2 nbsp Czech Republic 90 nbsp Denmark 17 nbsp Estonia 30 nbsp Ethiopia 1 nbsp Finland 91 nbsp France 104 nbsp Georgia 6 nbsp Germany 149 nbsp Ghana 1 nbsp Great Britain 52 nbsp Greece 7 nbsp Hong Kong 1 nbsp Hungary 15 nbsp Iceland 4 nbsp India 3 nbsp Iran 4 nbsp Ireland 6 nbsp Israel 3 nbsp Italy 109 nbsp Jamaica 1 nbsp Japan 91 nbsp Kazakhstan 37 nbsp North Korea 2 nbsp South Korea 45 nbsp Kyrgyzstan 2 nbsp Latvia 53 nbsp Lebanon 3 nbsp Liechtenstein 4 nbsp Lithuania 6 nbsp Macedonia 3 nbsp Mexico 1 nbsp Moldova 7 nbsp Monaco 3 nbsp Mongolia 2 nbsp Montenegro 1 nbsp Morocco 1 nbsp Nepal 1 nbsp Netherlands 32 nbsp New Zealand 16 nbsp Norway 95 nbsp Pakistan 1 nbsp Peru 3 nbsp Poland 46 nbsp Portugal 1 nbsp Romania 28 nbsp Russia 175 nbsp San Marino 1 nbsp Senegal 1 nbsp Serbia 10 nbsp Slovakia 68 nbsp Slovenia 47 nbsp South Africa 2 nbsp Spain 18 nbsp Sweden 101 nbsp Switzerland 134 nbsp Tajikistan 1 nbsp Turkey 5 nbsp Ukraine 45 nbsp United States 212 top nation nbsp Uzbekistan 3 Sports edit The 2010 Winter Olympics featured 86 events over 15 disciplines in 7 sports Biathlon nbsp Biathlon 10 details Bobsleigh nbsp Bobsleigh 3 details nbsp Skeleton 2 details Curling nbsp Curling 2 details Ice hockey nbsp Ice hockey 2 details Luge nbsp Luge 3 details Skating nbsp Figure skating 4 details nbsp Short track speed skating 8 details nbsp Speed skating 12 details Skiing nbsp Alpine skiing 10 details nbsp Cross country skiing 12 details nbsp Freestyle skiing 6 details nbsp Nordic combined 3 details nbsp Ski jumping 3 details nbsp Snowboarding 6 details Numbers in parentheses indicate the number of medal events contested in each separate discipline The opening and closing ceremonies and the events categorized as ice sports excluding bobsleigh luge and skeleton were held in Vancouver and Richmond The sports categorized as Nordic events were held in the Callaghan Valley located just to the west of Whistler All alpine skiing events were held on Whistler Mountain Creekside and sliding events bobsleigh luge and skeleton were held on Blackcomb Mountain Cypress Mountain located in Cypress Provincial Park in West Vancouver hosted the freestyle skiing aerials moguls and ski cross and all snowboard events half pipe parallel giant slalom snowboard cross nbsp Sidney Crosby celebrates moments after scoring the gold medal winning goal over the United States Vancouver 2010 was also the first winter Olympics in which both men s and women s hockey were played on a narrower NHL sized ice rink 60 measuring 200 ft 85 ft 61 m 26 m instead of the international size of 200 ft 98 5 ft 61 0 m 30 0 m The games were played at General Motors Place now Rogers Arena home of the NHL s Vancouver Canucks which was temporarily renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the Olympics Utilizing this existing venue instead of building a new international sized ice rink facility saved C 10 million in construction costs and allowed an additional 35 000 spectators to attend Olympic hockey games 60 However some European countries expressed concern over this decision worried that it might give North American players an advantage since they grew up playing on the smaller NHL sized rinks 61 By contrast the only other NHL venue to host Olympic hockey the Calgary Flames Olympic Saddledome started construction before Calgary won the bid for the 1988 Winter Olympics and it was designed to accommodate an international ice rink There were a number of events that were proposed to be included in the 2010 Winter Olympics 62 On November 28 2006 the IOC Executive Board at their meeting in Kuwait voted to include ski cross in the official program 63 The Vancouver Olympic Committee VANOC subsequently approved the event to officially be part of the Games program 64 Events proposed for inclusion but ultimately rejected included 65 Biathlon mixed relay Mixed doubles curling Team alpine skiing Team bobsled and skeleton Team luge Women s ski jumpingThe issue over women s ski jumping being excluded ended up in the Supreme Court of British Columbia in Vancouver during April 21 24 2009 with a verdict on July 10 excluding women s ski jumping from the 2010 Games 66 A request to appeal that verdict to the Supreme Court of Canada was subsequently denied on December 22 a decision that marked the end of any hopes that the event would be held during Vancouver 2010 67 To alleviate the exclusion VANOC organizers invited women from all over Canada to participate at Whistler Olympic Park including Continental Cup in January 2009 66 Women s ski jumping was included in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia Calendar edit All times are in Pacific Standard Time UTC 8 See also Chronological summary of the 2010 Winter Olympics In the following calendar for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games each blue box indicates that an event competition such as a qualification round was held on that day The yellow boxes represent days during which medal awarding finals for a sport were held with the number in these boxes representing the number of finals that were contested on that day 68 OC Opening ceremony Event competitions 1 Event finals EG Exhibition gala CC Closing ceremonyFebruary 12thFri 13thSat 14thSun 15thMon 16thTue 17thWed 18thThu 19thFri 20thSat 21stSun 22ndMon 23rdTue 24thWed 25thThu 26thFri 27thSat 28thSun Events nbsp Ceremonies OC CC nbsp Alpine skiing 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 10 nbsp Biathlon 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 10 nbsp Bobsleigh 1 1 1 3 nbsp Cross country skiing 2 2 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 12 nbsp Curling 1 1 2 nbsp Figure skating 1 1 1 1 EG 4 nbsp Freestyle skiing 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 nbsp Ice hockey 1 1 2 nbsp Luge 1 1 1 3 nbsp Nordic combined 1 1 1 3 nbsp Short track speed skating 1 1 2 1 3 8 nbsp Skeleton 2 2 nbsp Ski jumping 1 1 1 3 nbsp Snowboarding 1 1 1 1 1 1 6 nbsp Speed skating 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 12Daily medal events 5 5 6 5 7 6 4 6 6 4 5 5 6 7 7 2 86Cumulative total 5 10 16 21 28 34 38 44 50 54 59 64 70 77 84 86February 12thFri 13thSat 14thSun 15thMon 16thTue 17thWed 18thThu 19thFri 20thSat 21stSun 22ndMon 23rdTue 24thWed 25thThu 26thFri 27thSat 28thSun Total events Medal table edit nbsp Bronze Medal of 2010 Winter OlympicsMain article 2010 Winter Olympics medal table The top ten listed NOCs by number of gold medals are listed below The host nation Canada is highlighted Host country Canada To sort this table by nation total medal count or any other column click on the nbsp icon next to the column title RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal1 nbsp Canada CAN 1475262 nbsp Germany GER 10137303 nbsp United States USA 91513374 nbsp Norway NOR 986235 nbsp South Korea KOR 662146 nbsp Switzerland SUI 60397 nbsp China CHN 52411 nbsp Sweden SWE 524119 nbsp Austria AUT 4661610 nbsp Netherlands NED 4138Totals 10 entries 726053185Concerns and controversies editMain article Concerns and controversies over the 2010 Winter Olympics Some in the foreign press including London 2012 organizers had criticized the lack of city decorations to acknowledge that Vancouver was the host of the Games The original plans to decorate the city in Olympic colours a tradition followed by other recent Games host cities were canceled for several reasons Anti Games activists repeatedly vandalized the existing 2010 Olympics monuments such as the countdown clock forcing the city to install CCTV cameras and adding more Games decorations would have inevitably required more security presence to deter protesters so VANOC opted to minimize these symbols to avoid making the city a police state Besides local opposition budget cutbacks also forced the organizers to scale back on the elaborate plans 69 VANOC initially benefited from an economic boom and was able to secure lucrative and record domestic sponsorships but this boom also resulted in rapidly rising construction and labour costs Due to these factors as well as the late 2000s financial crisis and economic recession VANOC built minimalistic functional venues with little aesthetic appeal though they were well designed for post Games usage This approach as well as the fact that most of the infrastructure already existed meant that the direct costs of the Vancouver Games were much lower than recent Olympic games 69 Before the Games began and as they commenced a number of concerns and controversies surfaced and received media attention Hours before the opening ceremony Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run intensifying questions about the safety of the course and prompting 70 organizers to implement quick modifications Immediately after the accident officials attributed it to an athlete error rather than a track deficiency 71 The International Luge Federation called an emergency meeting after the accident and all other training runs were cancelled for the day 72 The President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili thanked the hosts for the way that they handled Kumaritashvili s death which included a moment of silence and a tribute to Kumaritashvili at the opening ceremony 73 One critic 74 questioned the choice of Cypress Mountain as a venue because of its potential lack of snow due to the 2009 10 El Nino Because of this possibility organizers had a contingency plan to truck in snow from Manning Park about 250 kilometres 160 mi to the east of the city This allowed events to proceed as planned 75 Political decisions involving cancellation of promised low income housing and the creation of a community of mixed economic backgrounds for post Games use of the athletes village was criticized 76 Opening ceremonies were stalled while organizers dealt with mechanical problems during the cauldron lighting ceremony 77 Speed skating events were delayed due to breakdowns of the ice resurfacers supplied by Olympia an official sponsor of the Games 78 Thousands of tickets were voided by organizers when weather conditions made standing room only areas unsafe 79 Visitors were also upset that as in past Olympics medal ceremonies required separate admission 79 and blocks of VIP tickets reserved for sponsors and dignitaries were unused at events 80 Other glitches and complaints have included confusion by officials at the start of the February 16 men s and women s biathlon pursuit races and restricted access to the Olympic flame cauldron on the Vancouver waterfront 81 82 Opposition edit Opposition to the Olympic Games was expressed by activists and politicians including Lower Mainland mayors Derek Corrigan 83 and Richard Walton 84 Many of the public pre Olympic events held in Vancouver were attended by protesters 85 On Saturday February 13 as part of a week long Anti Olympic Convergence protesters smashed windows of the Downtown Vancouver location of The Hudson s Bay department store 86 87 Protesters later argued that the Hudson s Bay Company has been a symbol of colonial oppression for centuries as well as a major sponsor of the 2010 Olympics 88 Some of the issues reflected in the opposition continue the themes identified in opposition to all Olympic games some of which are outlined in anti Olympics activist and Professor of Sociology Helen Jefferson Lenskyj s books Olympic Industry Resistance 2007 and Inside the Olympic Industry 2000 which examined a number of different Olympic Games prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics 89 These issues of concern underlying the opposition to any and all Olympic Games include Displacement of low income residents 90 91 92 93 Anticipated human trafficking for the purpose of forced prostitution 94 95 96 First Nations opposition edit Although the Aboriginal governments of the Squamish Musqueam Lil wat and Tsleil Waututh the Four Host First Nations on whose traditional territory the Games were held signed a protocol in 2004 97 in support of the games 98 there was opposition to the Olympics from some indigenous groups and supporters Although the Lil wat branch of the St at imc Nation is a co host of the Games a splinter group from the Seton band known as the St at imc of Sutikalh who have also opposed the Cayoosh Ski Resort feared the Olympics would bring unwanted tourism and real estate sales to their territory 99 100 Local aboriginal people as well as Canadian Inuit initially expressed concern over the choice of an inukshuk as the symbol of the Games with some Inuit leaders such as former Nunavut Commissioner Peter Irniq stating that the inukshuk is a culturally important symbol to them He said that the Inuit never build inuksuit with head legs and arms I have seen inuksuit built more recently 100 years maybe by non Inuit in Nunavut with head legs and arms These are not called inuksuit These are called inunguat imitation of man 101 Local aboriginal groups also expressed annoyance that the design did not reflect the Coast Salish and Interior Salish native culture from the region the Games are being held in but rather that of the Inuit who are indigenous to the Arctic far from Vancouver Doping edit On March 11 2010 it was reported that the Polish cross country skier Kornelia Marek was tested positive for EPO by the Polish Olympic Committee If found guilty of doping by the International Olympic Committee Marek and the relay teams would be disqualified and stripped of their Vancouver results She would also be banned from the next Winter Olympics in Sochi Russia in 2014 Marek denied taking any banned substances but the backup B sample from the Vancouver doping lab confirmed the A sample 102 On October 9 2017 the IOC announced that three positive doping cases had been found from their re analysis programme from the 2010 games All three cases belonged to the same athlete whose identity was not released at the time The IOC had re tested 1 195 urine samples from the games out of the 1 710 taken which equates to 70 as part of their re analysis programme 103 Weeks later the athlete was confirmed to be Slovenian biathlete Teja Gregorin 104 Mascots editMain article Miga Quatchi Sumi and Mukmuk The mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics are a spirit bear named Miga and a Sasquatch named Quatchi Legacy edit nbsp Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper and Governor General of Canada Michaelle Jean at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games Heads of State ReceptionThe massive celebratory crowds in downtown Vancouver were highly praised by the IOC Jacques Rogge the president of IOC indicated that the way Vancouver embraced these Games was extraordinary This is really something unique and has given a great atmosphere for these Games 105 106 The atmosphere surrounding the Olympics and its inclusion of foreign delegates and guests was also praised with many seasoned Winter Olympic observers putting the games at or near the top of the list of best ever Winter Olympics 107 They were also the best watched Winter Olympics since the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer 108 They are also mentioned alongside the Sydney 2000 Summer games in regards to the best atmosphere A large part is credited to the citizens of Vancouver British Columbia and Canada 109 Some members of the media mostly and particularly the British media criticized the Own the Podium and criticized the celebrations as having been somewhat nationalistic 110 111 but this was not an opinion shared by many Some suggested that the British media were making these criticisms in order to make the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics more appealing 112 Lord Sebastian Coe chairman of the 2012 London Olympic Games Organizing Committee attended the Vancouver Olympics to see how the city coped with the challenges of hosting Lord Coe noted the Games had gradually recovered from its tumultuous start and queried that he never thought the British would find rivals in their preoccupation with the weather which is almost elevated to an Olympic event as he credited VANOC for meeting unforeseen challenges such as the unseasonably warm weather of Cypress Mountain Coe added Rarely have I seen a host city so passionate and so ready to embrace the Games 73 113 The Vancouver Olympics also organized and hosted the first Pride House 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