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2010
Olympic Winter Games: February 12 to 28
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2010
Paralympic Winter Games: March 12 to 21
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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.
Several venues will also be built in Richmond,
the University of British Columbia, Callaghan
Valley, West Vancouver, and in the resort community
of Whistler, BC.
The games are returning to North America just
eight years after Salt Lake City hosted the
games in 2002.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will be 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 Canadian Olympic Committee, as the NOC of
the host country, has pledged to obtain the
most gold medals of any country at the 2010
Winter Olympics, due to its failures to
obtain a gold at both 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 before and failed to win.
Also, for the first time since 1984 the Opening
and Closing Ceremonies for a Winter Olympics
will be held indoors.
Vancouver is also the warmest city ever to host
a Winter Olympics. In February, when the Games
will be held, Vancouver has an average temperature
of 4.8 degrees Celsius. That's a higher average
temperature than in any city that has ever hosted
the Winter Olympics before.
Per Olympic tradition, current Vancouver mayor
Sam Sullivan received the Olympic flag during
the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics
in Turin, Italy, which was also attended by
the premier of British Columbia, Gordon Campbell,
himself a Vancouver native, and Governor General
Michaëlle Jean.
The flag was raised on Tuesday February 28,
2006 in an Special Flag Raising Ceremony. It
will be on display at Vancouver's City Hall
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