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The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Whistler and Vancouver. The 21st edition of the Winter Olympic Games will run from 12th to 28th February while the X Paralympics Winter Games run from March 12 to 21...
Online, February 12, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in Whistler and Vancouver. The 21st edition of the Winter Olympic Games will run from 12th to 28th February while the X Paralympics Winter Games run from March 12 to 21. A total 86 Olympic Winter Games medal events will be featured and 5,500 athletes and team official will participate during the 17 days period. Every piece of the live action will be streamed live here.
Over 80 Countries will participate in the different sport events. These sports include: alpine skiing, biathlon, cross-country skiing, ice sledge hockey, wheelchair curling, among others. 64 Paralympics Winter Games medal events will be featured and 1.350 athletes and team officials will participate. Over 40 countries will be competing in the different sports event. If you want to be reminded of the coming events you can go to http://olympic-games-2010.info/?p=1 and get the full schedule for all upcoming 2010 Winter Olympic Games.
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will have an estimated over 1.6 million tickets for the event. About 10,000 media representatives will be covering the sporting action. As for the Paralympics Winter Olympic Games in March, there will be over 250,000 tickets available. Over 25,000 people volunteered to participate in the game preparations. Did you also know that this will be the third time Canada will be hosting the Olympic Winter Games? The first was the 1976 Summer Olympic held in Montreal, Quebec and the second was the 1988 Winter Olympic Games held at Calgary, Alberta.
Vancouver was awarded the bid to host the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in 2003 after presenting its bid in 1998. The other bidding cities for this event were Salzburg, Austria and PyeongChung, South Korea.
The Olympic Games are said to date back all the way from the 776 BC. The sole event at these Olympic Games was running. The distance is estimated to have been about 192 meters. If the current Olympic Games have their roots way before the 7th Century then we can only imagine the magnificence of these game in the many centuries the Olympic Games have been around.
In the 1890s, educator Pierre de Coubertin came up with the idea to revive the Greek history and brought in the idea of modern Olympics. He founded the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to organize the games. Two years later, in 1896, the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens with approximately 250 athletes from 14 countries.
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