2010 Winter Olympics Thread

[The Franchise]

The XXI Olympic Winter Games will be held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

5,500+ athletes will be participating in 86 events. The opening and closing ceremonies will take place at BC Place while most events will be either the Richmond Olympic Oval or GM Place. Snow sports will take place at Whistler Olympic Park just outside of Vancouver.

The sports at the games are (with more events in each of them):
- Alpine Skiing
- Biathlon
- Bobsleigh
- Cross Country Skiing
- Curling
- Figure Skating
- Freestyle Skiing
- Ice Hockey
- Luge
- Nordic combined
- Short track speed skating
- Skeleton
- Ski Jumping
- Snowboarding
- Speed Skating

Participating countries:
http://www.ctvolympics.ca/countries/index.html

2006 Medal Standings:

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Event calender:



FUN FACTS:
- This will be the first winter OR summer Olympic opening ceremony to be held in indoors
- Vancouver is the largest city in history to host the Winter games
- Vancouver is also the warmest city to host the Winter games