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Moguls Skier Jennifer Heil Wins Canada’s First Olympic Medal
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...2010 Canadian Mens Figure Skating Hopeful Patrick Chan
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 [...]
Continue reading...Oda Nomunari 2010 Mens Figure Skating Preview
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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. [...]
Continue reading...Vancouver Mens Figure Skating Preview For Stephane Lambiel
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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 [...]
Continue reading...Mens Figure Skating Preview For Brian Joubert
Thursday, February 4, 2010
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...A Winter Olympics With No Snow?
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...Winter and Summer Olympic Games Trivia Part Two
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...Winter and Summer Olympic Games Trivia
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...2010 Winter Olympic Games Countdown
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...Olympic Hockey For Beginners To The Game
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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- Mixed Doubles Curling
- Whistler British Columbia The Canadian Summer Resort Town
- Winter Olympics Bobsleigh Competition Background
- West Vancouver joins Vancouver 2010 family as a Venue City
- History of Winter Olympics
- 2010 Winter Olympics Curling Basics
- Vancouver 2010 Men's Olympic Figure Skating Competition
- Speed Skating at the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Winter Olympic Games
- Easter Goodies Missing as More Than 31cms of Snow Blankets Whistler Blackcomb
- Winter and Summer Olympic Games Trivia Part Two (4)
- Vancouver 2010 Men’s Olympic Figure Skating Competition (3)
- 2010 Vancouver Whistler Olympic Games Just 8 Months Away (3)
- Mens Figure Skating 2010 Winter Olympics – Evgeny Plushenko (2)
- Canadian 2010 Vancouver Olympic Men’s Figure Skating Preview (1)
- Speed Skating at the Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Winter Olympic Games (1)
- Mixed Doubles Curling (1)
- Winter Olympics Bobsleigh Competition Background (1)
- 2010 Winter Olympic Games Countdown (1)
- Whistler British Columbia Welcomes The World In 2010 (1)
- Canada Sets Record For Gold Medals
- 2010 Canadian Mens Hockey Team Dodges A Bullet
- 2010 Mens Figure Skating Aftermath
- Moguls Skier Jennifer Heil Wins Canada’s First Olympic Medal
- The 2010 Winter Olympics – They Are Here
- United States Figure Skating Preview Mirai Nagasu
- Ladies’ Figure Skating Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games
- 2010 Canadian Mens Figure Skating Hopeful Patrick Chan
- Oda Nomunari 2010 Mens Figure Skating Preview
- Vancouver Mens Figure Skating Preview For Stephane Lambiel
Sunday, February 14, 2010
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