Canada’s first medal of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games was won by moguls skier Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Young Canadian Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finished fifth just outside the medals. The event saw Americans finish first and third to start off their Olympics on a good note. The first full day was to be a [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, February 4, 2010
Canadian Patrick Chan has been setting an amateur seniors men’s skating performance bar for some time. Internationally recognized and esteemed, Chan could sweep hometown crowd and deliver a bid for Olympic gold that resonates with the audience. Ranked 9th in the world, Chan showed a particularly strong 2009 skating year of European competition in ISU [...]
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The most brilliant men’s skating performance of the last ten years was given by this skater at the ISU Grand Prix event in 2009. The darling Charlie Chaplin routine charmed audiences and showcased to advantage the skater’s small build. This dynamo appearance made headlines the world over. Oda Nomunari is a Japanese figure skating champion. [...]
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Lambiel is a competent skater who is often placing at the Grand prix events of the ISU due to a dearth of other skaters missing events, not getting the nomination, or being assigned elsewhere. There is a pastiche quality to his routines and choreography, and a boyish aura about his skating that will clash [...]
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Brian Joubert has dazzled even his critics with occasionally spine tingling athletic brilliance matched with artistic conceptions well inside the legendary scope of virtuosity in artistic figure skating. Joubert has handled many European meets capably and emerged as the one to beat in a axis of European recovery after many years of dominance over the [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 21, 2010
A combination of environmental factors this Olympic year could see the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver – Whistler be nearly snow free. The world-class resort of Whistler which will be the scene of many of the skiing events is not fairing too badly, but the locations closer to the city of Vancouver are in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, December 13, 2009
The following is part two in our three part Summer and Winter Olympic Games history trivia. We are posting this in celebration of the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Winter Olympic Games which are sure to make all Canadians proud! Despite the telegenic reputation of the USA’s powerhouse gymnast Mary Lou Retton, it was Romanian Ecaterina Szabo who was [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
The following is the first part in a three part series we are offering on Winter and Summer Olympics trivia and history in celebration of the Vancouver Whistler 2010 Winter Olympic Games. If you have any interesting factoids or similar points please send them to us. Despite the democratic aura of the game’s participatory program, kings [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics have been carefully planned, economized for, and implemented. Provisioned funds amassed before the current economic downtrend and implementation of an entire calendar of Winter weather in Canada around the time the Games are scheduled to take place is projected to be clear and cold, sunny enough for the outdoor competitions [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Hockey has become one of the defining sports of the winter games and that will be no different in hockey mad Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Playing on high speed skates with sharp edges and vicious mass flying over rapid goals, hockey entertains and keeps spectators on edge. Hockey carries the trophy value for [...]
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