Whistler British Columbia Canada

Whistler Canada is going to be the name on everyone’s lips mere months from now in 2010. The Canadian nation proudly hosts the world’s best athletes in the Vancouver Olympics of 2010 that will take place just weeks from now. The main Vancouver Olympics in 2010 and the Alpine Whistler events will have the entire world watching.

In the runup to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, all kinds of sports rivalries are taking shape. Speed skating and the stamina and technology combine to make a suspenseful set of final heats. Heli-skiing and aerial views of Whistler make for breathtaking sightseeing. Bowl and village ski-ins make alpine sports a travel adventure.

Dog sledding and bungee jumping are just some of the things Olympic visitors to Whistler can enjoy doing. Figure skating captures the stunning elegance of ballet and matchless acrobatic feats of skating. In 2010, a freshman slate of potential Olympic gold medalists will challenge the minds of every world citizen with a display of their very best effort.

It may surprise winter sports enthusiasts to find that Whistler has two golf courses! A stunning mountain bike park and snowboarding runs complete the Alpine sport dreamland that is this Canadian Coastal Mountain town of Whistler. The Whistler community, in response to the coming 2010 Olympic Games inpour of tourists and athletes, has grown and many dining and shopping outlets of international caliber have been erected. Whistler will emerge from its sleepy mountain luxury hamlet to become a world famous sports address.

But Whistler has heli-skiing and mountain sports with a museum thrown in. The Whistler Museum & Archives Society will certainly have its hands full by Summer of 2010. The Whistler Mountain Bike Park may have some gondolas and trails open in Winter of 2010. The Whistler Golf Club is designed by Arnold Palmer, and Blackcomb Mountain has a golf course at its base designed by Robert Trent Jones.

The recent winner of Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen, Dave will be cooking up a storm at the Araxi resort in Whistler.

Olympic Figure Skating is the possibly most glamorous sport of all time, with dazzling spins, stunning jumps, aerobic twists and elegant turns surprising a new set of Olympic watchers with awe of the decades of training at issue during a single turn, spin or jump. The new Olympics skating points system will allow for new world Olympics records to be set. A white Winter Olympics will make sports fans the world over remember Vancouver 2010.

Downhill Super G racing retains the mayhem of a full overside toss over the cliff and the controlled speed and agility the top finishers bring to the sport. Whistler provides so much snow sport the hills will be alive with the sound of medals in 2010. New restaurants and business have sprouted throughout much of the Vancouver area to absorb the frenetic demand of dining, hospitality, guiding, sales and service Olympics visitors ask.

The likelihood that several new world records will be set per sport is only one of the attractions drawing world travelers to Canada this year for the Olympics. The Winter Olympic Village in downtown Vancouver hosts the city stadium games the mountain village of Whistler will be the hottest place to stay cool and watch the cold weather Alpine sports unfold. Whistler videos will load into Youtube thick and fast.

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics have been carefully planned, economized for, and implemented. Provisioned funds amassed before Whistler Canada is going to be the name on everyone’s lips a year from now, less than a year form now. In the runup to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, all kinds of sports rivalries are taking shape. Speed skating and the stamina and technology combine to make a suspenseful set of final heats.

Olympic Ice Skating is the possibly most glamorous sport of all time, with dazzling spins, stunning jumps, aerobic twists and elegant turns surprising a new set of Olympic watchers with awe of the decades of training at issue during a single turn, spin or jump. The pairs, singles ladies and singles men’s competitions, as well as the ice dancing contest will mint a new batch of Olympic champions and gold medal faces.

Downhill Super G racing and Slalom downhills will have their nail biting, tensely watched heats. Figure skating before the Skate America 2009 final would have been a match between Yuna Kim and …anybody else who shows up. (Sasha Cohen, possibly? American Rachael Flatt and Europe’s Carolina Kostner might medal as well, and the ISU Grand Prix should make for some interesting runups to the 2010 figure skating competition. Canada’s own Joannie Rochette won the Skate Canada last weekend.

Not so much this year for the men, who may have Evan Lysacek committing career bests to ice, yet (retired) Russian mop top Evgeney Plushenko has said he is training for Vancouver 2010. Plushenko’s 75 perfect 6.0 scores under the old system may give him something to shoot for. The mixed field of male talent skating now could provide Plushenko with a golden road to Vancouver.

Skate America sifted through a crowded field of men from Tomas Werner to Canada’s Scott to varying with Americans Brandon Mroz and Ryan Bradley (and USA’s Johnny Weir nowhere in sight). Yet America’s Jeremy Abbott won 2009 Skate Canada last weekend. The ISU Grand Prix continues to Japan where the finalists will compete for the final prize money. These will be familiar faces on the ice in Vancouver.

The likelihood that several new world records will be set per sport is only one of the attractions drawing world travelers to Canada this year for the Olympics. The Winter Olympic Village in downtown Vancouver hosts the city stadium games the mountain village of Whistler will be the hottest place to stay cool and watch the cold weather Alpine sports unfold. Speed skating is watchable online leading up to the Olympics at the ISU website.

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