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2010 Winter Olympics

21st edition of Winter Olympics, in Vancouver, Canada

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, were the Winter Olympics that were held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2010. Both the Olympic and Paralympic Games were organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC). The XXI Olympic Winter Games were held from February 14 2010 to February 28 2010. Many of the 2010 events were held in the nearby resort community called Whistler, about an hour's drive north of Vancouver.

XXI Olympic Winter Games
Host cityVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
MottoWith glowing hearts
(French: Des plus brillants exploits)
Nations82
Athletes2,566 (1044 women, 1522 men)
Events86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
OpeningFebruary 12
ClosingFebruary 28
Opened by
Governor General Michaëlle Jean
Cauldron
Catriona Le May Doan
Nancy Greene
Wayne Gretzky
Steve Nash
StadiumBC Place
Winter
← Turin 2006 Sochi 2014 →
Summer
← Beijing 2008 London 2012 →

The 2010 Winter Olympics is the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia. Previously, Canada was home to the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary. The villages of Whistler and Garibaldi bid for the games in 1976 but failed to win.

Participating nations

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82 National Olympic Committees had teams in the 2010 Winter Olympics.[1] Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ghana, Montenegro, Pakistan, Peru and Serbia were in their first winter Olympics. Also Jamaica, Mexico and Morocco came back to the Games after missing the Turin Games.

 
Countries that took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics (in green).


Costa Rica, Kenya, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Thailand, United States Virgin Islands and Venezuela did not join the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Sports

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Fifteen winter sports events were in the 2010 Winter Olympics. The eight sports grouped as ice sports were: bobsled, luge, skeleton, ice hockey, figure skating, speed skating, short track speed skating and curling. The three sports grouped as alpine skiing and snowboarding events were: alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and snowboarding. The four sports grouped as Nordic events were: biathlon, cross-country skiing, ski jumping and Nordic combined.

Numbers in parentheses show the number of medal events for each sport.

The opening and closing ceremonies and the events grouped as ice sports (excluding bobsleigh, luge and skeleton) were held in Vancouver and Richmond. The sports grouped as "Nordic events" were held in the Callaghan Valley near 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 was the place for the freestyle skiing (aerials, moguls and ski cross), and all snowboard events (half-pipe, parallel giant slalom, snowboard cross).

Vancouver 2010 was the first winter Olympics that both men's and women's hockey were played on a narrower, NHL-sized ice rink,[27] measuring 200 ft × 85 ft (61 m × 26 m), instead of the international size of 200 ft × 98.5 ft (61 m × 30 m). The games were played at General Motors Place, home of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks, which was temporarily renamed Canada Hockey Place for the time of the Olympics. This change saved $10 million in construction costs and allowed an additional 35,000 spectators to attend Olympic hockey games.[27] However, some European countries felt this would give North American players an advantage since they grew up playing on the smaller NHL-sized rinks.[28]

Medal table

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Here is the top of the medal table at the end of the games.

Medal numbers shown in bold are the highest in their section. Canada, the host nation is highlighted in lavender.

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1   Canada (CAN) 14 7 5 26
2   Germany (GER) 10 13 7 30
3   United States (USA) 9 15 13 37
4   Norway (NOR) 9 8 6 23
5   South Korea (KOR) 6 6 2 14
6   Switzerland (SUI) 6 0 3 9
7   China (CHN) 5 2 4 11
7   Sweden (SWE) 5 2 4 11
9   Austria (AUT) 4 6 6 16
10   Netherlands (NED) 4 1 3 8

References

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  1. ↑ "Olympic Athletes, Teams and Countries". Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. VANOC. Archived from the original on 2010-12-25. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
  2. ↑ 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 "Summary of Quota allocation (Alpine Skiing)" (PDF). FIS-Ski - International Ski Federation. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-02-15. Retrieved 2010-07-01.
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  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 "ISU Figure skating qualification system". Archived from the original on 2012-05-23. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 "2009 Figure Skating World Championship results". Archived from the original on 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
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  10. ↑ "Bulgaria received one more quota for the games". Топспорт. 12 February 2010. Retrieved 2010-02-13.
  11. ↑ "Travers is snow joke". Archived from the original on 2010-02-19. Retrieved 2009-11-05.
  12. ↑ "Olympic Qualification". World Curling Federation. Archived from the original on 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  13. ↑ "Suomen Olympiajoukkueeseen Vancouver 2010 -talvikisoihin on valittu 94 urheilijaa – kahdella miesalppihiihtäjällä vielä mahdollisuus lunastaa paikka joukkueessa – Suomen Olympiakomitea". Noc.fi. Archived from the original on 2010-02-12. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
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  15. ↑ "Ghana's 'Snow Leopard' qualifies to ski in 2010 Winter Olympics". CBC News. March 12, 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-06-07. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  16. ↑ "Short Track Speed Skating entry list". 24 November 2009. Archived from the original on 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2009-11-26.
  17. ↑ "Tashi and Jamyang qualify for 2010 Olympic Winter Games". 18 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-07-19. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 "Lambiel crushes competition at Nebelhorn". Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2009-09-26.
  19. ↑ "North Korea – CTV Olympics". Ctvolympics.ca. 2010-01-22. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
  20. ↑ "Sports | Mongolia Web News". Mongolia-web.com. Archived from the original on 2010-01-05. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  21. ↑ "Genomineerden". Nocnsf.nl. Archived from the original on 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
  22. ↑ "Anders Rekdal tatt ut til OL i Vancouver på overtid". Olympiatoppen (in Norwegian). 2010-01-29. Retrieved 2010-02-08.
  23. ↑ "Wystartujemy w Vancouver" (in Polish). 19 March 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-04-02. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  24. ↑ 24.0 24.1 "Athletes : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics". Vancouver2010.com. Archived from the original on 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
  25. ↑ "OS-truppen komplett(erad) – Olympic Team complete(d)". SOC. 2010-12-01. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2010-12-01.
  26. ↑ "Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Qualifications | News | USA Luge". Luge.teamusa.org. Archived from the original on 2010-01-30. Retrieved 2010-02-07.
  27. ↑ 27.0 27.1 Mackin, Bob (2006-06-06). "VANOC shrinks Olympic ice". Slam! Sports. Archived from the original on 2018-12-25. Retrieved 2009-01-07.
  28. ↑ "2010 Olympic hockey will be NHL-sized". CBC News. 2006-06-08. Retrieved 2010-02-14.

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