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The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...
From top left, clockwise: the magnitude 8.8 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull as part of a series of Volcanic events in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; the 2010 Winter Olympics are held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion and subsequent oil spill becomes the worst marine oil ...
In the following calendar for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each box represents the number of finals that were contested on that day. [1]
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from February 12 to February 28. A total of 2,632 athletes (+124 from 2006 Olympics ) representing 82 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) (+2 from 2006) participated in 86 events (+2 from 2006 ...
June 5–21 – The 2010 IRB Junior World Championship was held at three sites in Argentina and won by New Zealand. August 20, – September 5, – 2010 Women's Rugby World Cup was held at two sites in London, England and won by New Zealand. October 23, – December 18, – The 2010 end-of-year series takes place. Notable events during this ...
London submitted a bid to the IAAF to host the 2015 World Championships in 2010, however due to the uncertain future of the Olympic stadium at the time, the bid was moved to the 2017 World championships, leaving only Beijing in the race. The event was accordingly held in The Bird's Nest Stadium, the athletics venue for the 2008 Olympic Games. [65]
2010 Winter Olympic - Figure skating Ladies podium - Yuna Kim (1st), Mao Asada (2nd), Joannie Rochette (3rd). Figure skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The events took place between 14 and 27 February 2010. Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo (CHN) won the gold medal in the pairs ...
The last run of the men's singles event had a share of 30.3 percent (1.82 million viewers) while the third run of the event had been watched by 5.32 million viewers (17.1 percent market share). Despite being broadcast in the middle of the night in Germany, the doubles event had a 22.6 percent market share. [23]