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  2010 Winter Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, are the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be celebrated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2010.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia.
As of 2004, the cost of the 2010 Winter Olympics is estimated to be in the range of C$1.4 billion.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics   (1764 words)

  
 2010 Winter Paralympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially known as the X Paralympic Winter Games, will be celebrated in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia between March 12 to March 21, 2010.
Vancouver sees the 2010 games (Olympics and Paralympics) as a chance to build on its history as a world-class city that began in 1986 with the World's Fair.
Like the 2010 Winter Olympics, the sporting events during the paralympics will be shared between Vancouver and Whistler.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2010_Winter_Paralympics   (268 words)

  
 YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> 2010   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
A perhaps minute dilemma that will occur on 1 January, 2010, will be the decision as to what method of pronunciation will be generally used across the English-speaking world to refer to the year "2010" and the remaining years of the 21st century.
February 12 to February 28 - 2010 Winter Olympics scheduled to be in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
In the television show Macross, the Earth is decimated in 2010 by the Zentradi in a final attack that also ends in the defeat of the Zentradi fleet.
www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/2010   (1328 words)

  
 GAMES-Paralympics-2010, Bgt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
With the next Winter Paralympics being held at Whistler, B.C., raising awareness of the Games among disabled people and the general public is also essential.
The goal for the 2010 Paralympics is to win at least 10 gold medals and finish in the top three.
One of the biggest challenges for 2010 is to recruit more athletes, especially for cross-country and alpine skiing, said Brian MacPherson, chief operating officer for the Canadian Paralympic Committee.
www.recorder.ca /cp/Sports/060320/s032059A.html   (768 words)

  
 Winter Olympic Games & Paralympics 2010 Turin, Italy. Information & news.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It was expected that over 2500 athletes would take part in the 2006 games in Turin, participating in the various winter Olympic disciplines and competing for around 82 medals.
Turin's organising committee is known as TOROC and has been busy promoting and encouraging the whole of Italy to get behind the Winter Olympic Games held between 10th and 26th February 2006 in the northern town of Turin, high in the mountains in the Piemonte region.
The mascots for the 2005 Turin Olympic Games were a snowball called Neve and an ice cube called Gliz and the emblem chosen for the Turin games was a modern depiction of the spirit of the Olympics.
www.olympicgames-news.com /winterolympics2006turin.html   (396 words)

  
 Morgan:News:2010::Bronze Edition: March 2004
The new CEO of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics Organizing Committee says the next few days of his job will be used to finalize the organization structure for operations, and he expects to provide recommendations to the Board shortly.
The president of 2010 LegaciesNow, Marion Lay, says her provincial society will receive $30 million in government funding so that culture can be added to its mandate of assisting B.C. sports groups during the run-up to the Winter Olympics.
The mayor of Squamish, Ian Sutherland, says the prospect of being a part of the 2010 Winter Olympics has helped to breathe new life into the economics of the community, which is on the highway between the two host cities of the games, Vancouver and Whistler.
www.morgan-news.com /2010/archives/2004_03_01_Bronze.htm   (12652 words)

  
 Winter Olympic Games & Paralympics 2010 Turin, Italy. Information & news.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
It is expected that over 2500 athletes will take part in the 2006 games in Turin, participating in the various winter Olympic disciplines and competing for around 82 medals.
Turin's organising committee is known as TOROC and has been busy promoting and encouraging the whole of Italy to get behind the forthcoming Winter Olympic Games to be held between 10th and 26th February 2006 in the northern town of Turin, high in the mountains in the Piemonte region.
The "Village" includes a large inflatable dome where, thanks to special effects, visitors will be able to enjoy a fantastic, multi-sensory experience of many of the winter games disciplines:with skiers and skaters appearing to come to life all around them.
www.olympicgames-news.com /turin.html   (401 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - OLYMPIC GAMES
The next Summer Paralympics in 2008 will be held in Beijing, China, with the 2010 Winter Paralympics being staged from 12 to 21 March (2010) in Canada.
The Opening Ceremony for the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games is to take place in Vancouver and all competitions in Whistler.
The IPC organises, supervises and coordinates the Paralympic Games and other multi-disability sports competitions at elite level, of which the most important are world and regional championships.
www.olympic.org /uk/games/paralympic/index_uk.asp   (544 words)

  
 we move to canada: paralympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The 2006 Winter Paralympic Games were kicked off in Torino yesterday, with an athlete's parade and a sizeable crowd in attendance.
This Canadian city is scheduled to host the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
On the subject of winter sports for people with disabilities, here's an old story of mine about champion skier Muffy Davis.
wemovetocanada.blogspot.com /2006/03/paralympics.html   (686 words)

  
 EdGate Summer Games
The new International Paralympic logo consists of three elements in red, blue and green - the three colors that are most widely represented in national flags around the world.
Jessica Galli, is one of the top wheel chair racers in the U.S. She was the youngest member of the USA Track and Field Team at the 2000 Paralympic games in Sydney when she won the silver medal in the 800 meter.
The Paralympics are not to be confused with the Special Olympics, a participatory event where all contenders receive medals.
www2.edgate.com /summergames/paralympics   (1364 words)

  
 Wikinfo | 1992 Winter Olympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Games of the XVI Winter Olympiad were held in 1992 in Albertville, France.
The last Winter Games to be staged in the same year as the Summer Games.
Images, some of which are used under the doctrine of Fair use or used with permission, may not be available.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=1992_Winter_Olympics   (225 words)

  
 City of Vancouver - Olympic Update
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) has announced that the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games ice sledge hockey tournament, originally scheduled to be held in Whistler, will be moved to the UBC Winter Sports Centre in Vancouver.
City staff presented a report on the first draft of the City's strategic plan for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games at the City Council meeting on April 18.
For more detailed information about all Vancouver 2010 activities, or to contact the Vancouver Organizing Committee, visit the official Vancouver 2010 website at www.vancouver2010.com.
www.city.vancouver.bc.ca /olympics   (207 words)

  
 SLAM! Sports - 2010 Vancouver - CoComm sits without its chairman
IOC's 2010 Co-ordination Commission chair was out of commission himself yesterday morning as Vancouver's Olympic Committee came under the microscope.
CoComm is visiting Vancouver for a third routine visit to evaluate planning of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.
Gilbert Felli, IOC's executive director of the Olympic Games, said February's Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy showed "a very good relationship between culture and sport," but "there were issues" around venue readiness, transportation and accommodations.
slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Olympics/2010Vancouver/2006/06/07/1618839-sun.html   (230 words)

  
 Morgan:News:2010::Bronze Edition: December 2005
The CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games (VANOC) says the considerable size and number of large capital projects that are due to be built on the south coast of BC over the next few years are going to pose challenges for VANOC beyond cost control.
The minister in charge of the federal government's part of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Stephen Owen, has told a reporter he expects Ottawa to share the cost with BC of any "unavoidable" shortfall in the 2010 Organizing Committee's operations.
Another Canadian Press story published yesterday about the 2010 Winter Olympics and connecting it to the claim that "labour shortages and ballooning construction costs are prompting Canada to scour other countries for skilled labour" is spreading quickly to the rest of the country as well as internationally.
www.morgan-news.com /2010/archives/2005_12_01_Bronze.htm   (18069 words)

  
 Paralympics Events Disabled Sports
is now setting her sights on competing in the 2012 Paralympics after recently...
Jamaica opens medal count at Paralympics championshipradiojamaica.com, Jamaica - Sep 5, 2006Olympic champion Alphonso Cunningham and Sylvia Grant placed 2nd and 3rd respectively in their events to open Jamaica's medal count at the Paralympic World...
I've been to three Paralympics, won medals at all and held world...
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Sports/Disabled/Events/Paralympics   (487 words)

  
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Today, the Paralympics are elite sport events for athletes from six different disability groups.
The number of athletes participating in Summer Paralympic Games has increased from 400 athletes from 23 countries in Rome in 1960 to 3806 athletes from 136 countries in Athens in 2004.
Since the Seoul 1988 Paralympic Games and the Albertville 1992 Winter Paralympic Games they have also taken place at the same venues as the Olympics.
www.paralympic.org /release/Main_Sections_Menu/Paralympic_Games   (411 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Winter Olympics 2002 | Front Page News | Eight cities bid for 2010
Sarajevo, which staged the 1984 Winter Games, was also among list of candidates announced by the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday, a day after the official bid deadline.
Respective bidders have until 31 May to submit their applications for the 2010 Games to the IOC, which will announce the winner in July 2003.
But Sarajevo's Olympic officials said earlier that they were confident their city could win the race to host the event.
news.bbc.co.uk /winterolympics2002/hi/english/front_page/front_page_news/newsid_1787000/1787392.stm   (217 words)

  
 BBC SPORT | Other Sport | 2010 Winter Games bidders
The 2010 Winter Olympics host city will be announced on 2 July during the 115th International Olympic Committee session in Prague.
Vancouver claims that giving the 2010 Games in Canada "will ignite our passion for winter sports at all levels, from community ice rinks to the ski slopes".
Pyeongchang's bid team claim that as long as one of the Olympic movement's goals is the lasting peace in the world, no other place on earth better illustrates the need for it then the divided Korean peninsula.
news.bbc.co.uk /sport1/hi/other_sports/3031770.stm   (791 words)

  
 Paralympics Ontario - Games Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Paralympics Ontario (PO) has played an integral role in the development of Paralympians for the past two decades through an established multi-sport games program, which features Ontario Paralympic Summer Championships and Winter Championships, along with invitational events and Regional Games.
The Ontario Paralympic Summer Championships (OPSC) has been the premier multi-sport competition for athletes with a physical disability in Ontario since 1981.
The Ontario Paralympic Winter Championships (OPWC) is a new initiative being launched in 2006 to help develop Ontario Paralympians in anticipation of the 2010 Winter Paralympic Games in Vancouver.
www.paralympicsontario.ca /gamesprogram.shtml   (227 words)

  
 Vancouver Named Host City of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
In gaining the 21st Winter Olympics — and the subsequent Paralympics for disabled athletes, Vancouver brings the Games back to Canada for the first time since 1988 in Calgary, Alberta.
The Winter Games will help promote tourism in BC as well as be a catalyst for public infrastructure development — such as enhancements to the regional transportation system, employee housing and new sporting facilities — to meet existing and future needs.
Member partners of the Vancouver 2010 Bid Corporation are the Government of Canada, the Province of British Columbia, the City of Vancouver, the Resort Municipality of Whistler and the Canadian Olympic Committee.
www.firsttracksonline.com /news/stories/10572047991080.shtm   (813 words)

  
 2006 Winter Olympics » An apology– Paralympics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After a double amputation in 1995, she became aware of the Paralympics in 1999 and made it her goal to participate in the 2002 Paralympic Games.
Kevin was paralyzed from the waist down at the age of 21 in a snowboarding accident.
In Turin, he was defending the gold he won at the Salt Lake City Paralympics in 2002.
2006turinolympics.com /20060320-an-apology-paralympics   (380 words)

  
 Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010
LensRank: #4,226 Winter Olympics Vancouver 2010 by jeffryv
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, are the next Winter Olympics, scheduled to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2010.
Vancouver 2010 salutes Montreal on the genesis of an Olympic Legacy
www.squidoo.com /olympics2010   (1269 words)

  
 INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE - ATHENS 2004
On 12 March, in Whistler, Canada, Phil Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), and John Furlong, Chief Executive Officer of the Vancouver 2010 Organising Committee (VANOC), announced the five-year countdown to the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
Craven, who is also an IOC member, toured the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games venues in Whistler, including the Nordic skiing competition venue, Paralympic Village, Whistler Creekside (Alpine skiing venues) and Meadow Park Arena (wheelchair curling venue).
Forty countries are expected to participate in the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, including an estimated 600-800 athletes and 5,000-8,000 volunteers.
www.olympic.org /uk/games/athens2004/home/full_story_uk.asp?id=1275   (257 words)

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