More than 27 Days of Sport - Years of Benefit
If the Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games are any indication,
Whistler can expect to enjoy the benefits of hosting the Games long
after 2010.
More than 20 years later, Calgary continues to see significant increases in international visitors and its sport venues play a key role in sport development for Canadian Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
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Feb 16, 2010
Whistler, BC ? The Men's super combined competition at Whistler Creekside originally scheduled for 10 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 16 has been postponed due to weather. The new date and start time for the event will be determined and announced later today.
Event Ticket information:
?Event tickets for Tuesday's event will remain valid for the rescheduled event. Ticke ...
Feb 16, 2010
Whistler (AFP) - Germany's Magdalena Neuner claimed gold in the Olympic Games women's 10km biathlon pursuit on Tuesday, edging out Slovakia's Anastazia Kuzmina, who had denied her three days earlier in the sprint.
"I'm the Olympic champion, this is just fantastic," said Neuner after completing the course in 30min 16.0sec.
The 25-year-old Kuzmina had created an upset when she ...
Feb 16, 2010
West Vancouver, BC ? General admission standing room tickets have been cancelled for Olympic men's and ladies' snowboard halfpipe on February 17 and 18; ski cross on February 21 and 23; and snowboard parallel giant slalom on February 26 and 27 at Cypress Mountain. Tickets will be refunded, said the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games ( ...
Feb 16, 2010
Whistler (AFP) - Sweden's Bjorn Ferry won the men's Olympic pursuit title on Tuesday with Austrian Christoph Sumann taking silver and Frenchman Vincent Jay bronze.
Feb 9, 2010
Greenbush (AFP) - Marian Gaborik, slated to play for Slovakia at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, limped off the ice at New York Rangers practice Tuesday after he was cut on the right knee by the skate of a teammate.
Gaborik, the Rangers' leading scorer this NHL season, skated in on goalie Henrik Lundqvist during a breakaway drill and tried to jump over Lundqvist's leg.
Th ...
Feb 9, 2010
Anahein (AFP) - Ryan Getzlaf, the Ducks center due to play for Canada at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games, was nursing a sprained left ankle on Tuesday after he was hurt in an NHL contest the night before.
"Hopefully, he won't be out too long," said defenseman Scott Niedermayer, the captain of the Ducks and Team Canada. "I don't have to say what he means to this team and wha ...
Feb 9, 2010
Vancouver (AFP) - Australia's women two-man bobsleigh team of Astrid Loch-Wilkinson and Cecilia McIntosh were given the green light for the Olympic Games on Tuesday after successfully appealing against their exclusion.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled in favour of the Australian Olympic Committee's case that the International Bobsleigh Federation (FIBT) had made a ...
Jan 8, 2010
Ottawa (AFP) - Don Laws, coach of reigning Canadian champ Patrick Chan, will not be at rinkside when the world silver medallist defends his national figure skating title next week in London, Ontario.
Laws told Skate Canada he would also not accompany Canadian Olympic contender Chan to the upcoming Winter Games in Vancouver where the 19-year-old will be under int ...
Jan 8, 2010
Haus im Ennstal (AFP) - Austrian skier Maria Holaus has been ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering a fracture to her right ankle, the Austrian ski federation has announced.
The 26-year-old, who was among several skiers bidding for a place in the women's downhill team for the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games next month, sustained the injury in training ...