This is the third time Canada has hosted the Winter Olympics after having been hosted by two sessions in 1976 in the city of Montreal and the province of Quebec in 1988 in the city of Calgary, Alberta.
And concludes with the Games in the twenty-eighth of the month of February being, knowing that the city of Vancouver will host immediately after the Winter Olympics for people with special needs during the period from 12 to 21 March next year.
And run many of Canada to compete strongly for an advanced position in the medals table, but the competition for the lead may be difficult with the United States, which involved the largest missions of the session (216 athletes), which are looking to a long awaited dream, where she was the only time topped the ranking by the third session in 1932 hosted at home in the city of Lake Placid, New York.
The United States was close to achieving that dream during the Turin Olympics in 2006 but in the end merely Center just behind behind Germany.
The mission of the United States in Vancouver, a number of prominent names in more than one competition, but the greatest hopes hanging on the ability of alpine ski star Lindsey von overcome the injury and catch up with the curtain tournament, where they are strong favorites for gold medals in team stage of Down Hill and Super G..
Germany also strongly support the candidate to repeat the completion of 2006, thanks to the many talent-owned, especially in sports scooters (for draws and Popslid and Skeleton), in addition to the prominent names in Alpine skiing, led by star slalom Marsa Reich.
Next to the Germans and the Americans are expected to bring greater competition to the Vancouver 2010 Gold by both Russia and Norway, Austria and Switzerland.
Session will also witness the participation of a number of countries for the first time, such as Peru and Serbia and Montenegro, Pakistan, Ghana and Colombia.
Arab participation:
Speaking of Arab participation in the tournament will be available five athletes, and Lebanon are the most representative are three Shereen Najim (25 years) and Jackie Shimon (18 years) and Ghassan al-Ashi (16 years), all in alpine skiing competitions, and Morocco are also participating in the same competition sportsman is one Samir Azimani (32 years), while Algeria will be represented Mahdi Salim Khalife (17 years) in the cross.
Vancouver prepared:
For the first time Canada will host the tournament in the province of British Columbia Bank. And near the city of Vancouver, which hosts a large number of competitions, speed skating competition will be held in a suburb near Richmond, while the resort of Whistler is hosting several competitions, including Albaeattlon and alpine skiing, cross country, jumping and luge competitionsOrganizers faced difficult times in the past few days because the problem of rising average temperatures are unusual in the month of February, which led to a shortage in the quantities of snow on Mount Cypress is hosting a free skating and skateboarding, which threatened to cancel the competition.
Solve the problem was the transfer of large amounts of snow by truck from the area of Manning Park, which lies about 250 km to Cypress Mountain.
But competition remains always threatened with variable climatic conditions caused by global warming, where organizers announced a few hours before that there are heavy rains continue Htoulha on Cypress Mountain area, which may cause the postponement of competition for several days.
These were not the only problem is offset by the organizers since they have the privilege of regulation in 2003, has faced criticism from many communities because of the high cost of organizing the tournament, which included more than U.S. $ 550 million of taxpayer money. It also faced more criticism over the environmental damage caused by road construction and infrastructure necessary for the organization.
Opening ceremony:
Held the opening ceremony of the tournament late twelfth of February in the court, "the BBC Bliss" famous for "The Dome" or dome, the stadium is covered with a capacity of about 55 thousand spectators and often hosts international soccer and American football.
The cost of the ceremony, nearly 40 million U.S. dollars to be the most expensive opening ceremony in the history of the Olympic Winter Games.
Olympic flame was lit in Olympia, Greece, the cradle of the Olympics in the thirty-October last, and subsequently toured in Canada will end at the opening ceremony expected.
Fears due to doping:
Hours before the start of competition organizing committee announced that it has discovered the case of doping by the ice hockey player for Russia, but merely because of its conviction that it Ptobejha not communicate the structure of material fraud, knowing that it is also not an abuse of the banned substances out of the competition.
The organizers expect to be found more cases during the most serious competition, especially with the presence of progress and a breakthrough in the methods of doping compared to past sessions.
The Agency World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has announced earlier that there are a number of athletes have been barred from participating in the session because they violated anti-doping rules.
About the Olympic winter sports:
Can be divided into winter sports Olympics to seven main sections include 15 sports, 86 competition here Profile simplified by:
Snow skiing (Skiing):
All sports practiced in the open air on the slopes of snow, or through large areas of snow, the Alpine skiing (Alpine Skiing) and jumping with skiing (Ski Jumping), cross country skiing by (Cross-County Skiing) and free skating (Freestyle Skiing) and snowboarding ( Snowboarding) and finally "the northern ski boat" or (Nordic Combined), a mixture of cross country and jumping.
Ice skating (Skating):
Sports is always practiced in the halls on the floors covered with ice and required to wear flat shoes custom Bzlajat fitted short, and include all of figure skating (Figure Skating) and speed skating (Speed Skating) and in the speed skating short-track (Short Track Speed Skating).
Within the corridors of snow skis (belonging to the Union FIBT):
Flip Flops my sport Skeleton (Skeleton) and Flip Flops Popslid (Bobsled) which require the use of snow-scooters to traffic in less time as possible within the corridors of ice.
Within the corridors of snow skis (affiliated to the Federation FIL):
Sport Flip Flops access (Luge) are similar to a large extent in their laws and Alskilton Albobslid, differ in the form of skis and put the rider over the crawler.
Albaeattlon (Biathlon):
It is a mixture of skiing distance of the snow and rifle.
Alkrling (Curling):
Team sport teams confronting each other, under which each team to push the number of disks across the granite smooth passage of the soft snow, in order to shut down its disk near the center of the circle at the end of the corridor, to the exclusion of the hard discount your team from the center.
Ice Hockey (Ice Hockey):
Sport features famous matches the excitement and speed confronting each other, where two teams of each of five players and a goalkeeper wearing shoes Bzlajat and moving the golf specific floors of the ice, and be required to pass is a small disk with each other, known as the (Puck) with a stick made of light metal, and payment on goal to score goals.
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