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Winter olympic 2010 Vancouver

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Olympic torch runner John Stibbard, the Vice President of Operations and son of the owner of the Capilano Suspension Bridge poses for photographs on the bridge after earlier in the day completing his leg of the Olympic torch run through Squamish in British Columbia on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010.

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Rob Drygas carries the flame while pole climbing in Squamish, British Columbia on February 5th, 2010.

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Elaine Lui passes the flame to Julia Murray, anboard a snow machine, on February 5th, 2010, in Whistler, British Columbia.

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Torchbearer and former World Cup and Olympic downhill ski racer Steve Podborski skis the Olympic Flame into Whistler, British Columbia, Canada on Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
 
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Jarnail Sahota carries the torch across a bridge in Ashcroft, British Columbia on Day 100 of the relay, February 6th, 2010.

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Torchbearer Damon Jones carries the Olympic flame through heavy fog before dawn in White Rock, British Columbia on Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010.

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Searchlights shine brightly in Vancouver's night sky on February 9th, 2010 as part of an interactive art installation called "Vectorial Elevation."

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VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 11: The flag of New Zealand is raised during the New Zealand Flag Raising ceremony at Olympic Plaza, Vancouver Athletes Village ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.
 
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VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 11: Figure skating pairs Dan Zhang and Hao Zhang of China practice ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics on February 11, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.

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Xue Shen and Hongbo Zhao of China and practice ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

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Figure skating pairs David King and Stacey Kemp of Great Britain and Northern Ireland practice .
 
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Robin Szolkowy and Aliona Savchenko of Germany compete in the figure skating pairs short program practice held at Pacific Coliseum.

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Figure skating pairs Maylin Hausch and Daniel Wende of Germany.
 
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Figure skating pairs Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett of United States.
 
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Torchbearer Michael Tchao jump as he carries the Olympic flame during the Olympic torch relay at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010. The Olympic flame is on a 106-day journey across Canada in the longest domestic torch relay in Olympic history. It will end with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12.

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1. Michael Tchao is VP marketing for the iPad.
2. Sportscaster Bob Costas carries the Olympic flame

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Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan carries the Olympic flame during the Olympic torch relay in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Thursday Feb. 11, 2010.
 
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Torchbearer Rayne Williams carries the Olympic flame at the Peace Arch border crossing separating Canada and the United States in Surrey, British Columbia.

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Torchbearer Rayne Williams, left, passes the Olympic flame to Phil Mahre, of Yakima, Wash. , an Olympic gold and silver medalist in alpine skiing, at the Peace Arch border.

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Torchbearer Phil Mahre, of Yakima, Wash. , an Olympic gold and silver medallist in alpine skiing, carries the Olympic flame into the United States from Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. , into Blaine, Wash. , at the Peace Arch border crossing separating Canada and the United States on Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. The Olympic flame entered the U.S. for the only time on it's 106-day journey across Canada in the longest domestic torch relay in Olympic history. It will end with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at the opening ceremonies for the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday, Feb. 12.

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Torchbearer Phil Mahre, center, of Yakima, Wash. , an Olympic gold and silver medalist in alpine skiing, stands with British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell, left, and Washington state governor Christine Gregoire on the Canadian side after carrying the Olympic flame across the border into Blaine, Wash. and back, at the Peace Arch border crossing separating Canada and the United States in Surrey, British Columbia.
 
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COQUITLAM, BC - FEBRUARY 11: Spectators wave flags and cheer along the relay route.

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This is call winter olympics host city in winter, LOL.

Vancouver, Canada Weather
Updated: Feb 12, 2010, 6am Local Time

Right Now

Mostly Cloudy
8° C
Feels Like: 8° C
Wind: From NE at 3km/h

They should cancel the outdoor event or move to another place. It is a joke.

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This is going to affect some athlete, dry snow , wet snow, compact snow, depend where they are from, what type of snow they are trainning in. well, there will be some surprise results.


Everything Is in Place in Vancouver, Except Snow

Published: February 9, 2010
WEST VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The steady roar of a helicopter dumping snow on the Olympic snowboard halfpipe and a caravan of trucks hauling more snow from hundreds of miles away are creating a defining image of the Vancouver Games before the competitions even begin.

On Tuesday, organizers gave the news media their first look at Cypress Mountain, the site of the snowboarding and freestyle skiing events, with hopes of allaying concerns about a lack of snow and unseasonably warm weather endangering the competitions. But officials kept the snowboarding halfpipe off limits, citing safety concerns. The mountain looked as if it were under military siege, not an Olympic site days from competition.

Maintenance crews continued to work around the clock. The helicopter, which resembles an orange stick insect, continually shuttled snow from higher elevations. Some of the 160 loads hauled in the past week were brought by trucks that made a three-hour trip. A fleet of snowmobiles ferried workers. Red snow machines, which are effectively highly specialized bulldozers, were in continuous motion. Smaller helicopters moved people and equipment.

“All in all, I think we are very positive about how things have come together,” Dick Vollet, the Vancouver organizing committee’s vice president for mountain operations, said during a news conference that was regularly interrupted by the roar of a heavy lift helicopter moving snow.

“We are quite happy with where we are given that we are fighting Mother Nature, and sometimes she can be very unforgiving,” he added.

The freestyle skiing site appears to be Games ready. The snowboard halfpipe, however, presents a more complicated issue for organizers because of its 22-foot vertical walls.

When the Vancouver Organizing Committee, known as Vanoc, first closed Cypress Mountain last month to preserve its snow, officials were confident that they had ample stockpiles at the resort to cover the needs of the games. But Vollet said that the unseasonable conditions depleted those stockpiles and snow started to be trucked in a week ago

“We started to lose snow,” he told reporters.

Reflecting the conditions of the past few weeks, the snow on the routes tracked by machinery is now a dirty brown. Snow-free spots, particularly near rock outcrops, dot the slopes at Cypress, and streams are cascading water as if it were the spring run-off.

The only people unfazed by the chaos seem to be the snowboarding competitors. The high-powered United States halfpipe team was scheduled to arrive on Tuesday and Wednesday, Coach Mike Jankowski said, and there was no discussion of going someplace else for last-minute training.

The halfpipe is expected to be ready for practice on Sunday, at least two days behind schedule. The halfpipe competition will be held next Wednesday and Thursday.

“Three days of training is perfect,” Jankowski said. “It’s as much or more as a normal event would have, a World Cup or an X Games or a Grand Prix. So we’re ready to do this. We really, really are.”

The Olympic plans at Cypress were undercut by the warmest January on record, which kept snowmaking to a minimum. According to Environment Canada, the average temperature this year was 7.2 degrees Celsius (45 Fahrenheit), when it normally is 3.3 C (38). From Dec. 1 to Jan. 31, the area received 79 percent of its usual precipitation, but most of it was rain.

Snow is in the forecast for Wednesday, followed by several days with rain.

To combat those elements and help keep the halfpipe solid, workers are likely to spread ample amounts of salt on the pipe before and after training sessions and competitions, according to Frank Wells, the product manager for California-based Snow Park Technologies. He has been building halfpipes for 20 years, including those used at the Winter X Games.

“In layman’s terms, it’s as close to a Zamboni as you can get,” Wells said. “You’re melting the absolute surface, that top eighth, quarter, half inch of snow. But because underneath it is frozen and 32 degrees, it’s causing it to refreeze.”

None of this seems to worry Jankowski. He does not expect the halfpipe’s condition to alter the high-flying stunts above it.

“We’d have to look at it each day,” Jankowski said. “It would have to be pretty extreme conditions for the riders to have to change their run choice, change their trick choice in their runs. It would really have to be extraordinarily bad out for that to happen.”
 
Look at the canadian high tech fully enclosed stadium

look at their stadium
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singapore so call most capable gov in the world cannot build an enclosed kallang stadium, after USA achieve the feat in 60's. what a useless gov in singapore.
 
Singapore
Feb 12, 2010
Winter Olympics in 2014?
By Gerard Wong
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Singapore is working to produce its first athletes for the Winter Olympics in four years' time

A Singapore Sports Council (SSC) project is under way to groom a handful of athletes towards
qualifying for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia,
Mr Teo Ser Luck revealed on Friday.
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He was speaking to reporters after cable operator StarHub's media event to launch the new SuperSports Arena channel (Channel 122).
Mr Teo, who is Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development, Youth and Sports and Transport,
senses that now is the time for the sports ministry and the SSC to embark on this ambitious project.
'We have enjoyed success at the Commonwealth and Asian Games and at the Olympics,
and we have put in place a system for developing elite athletes.
'So the time is right for us to start looking at other sports to compete in.'
 
With this in mind, we present five things you didn't know about the 2010 Winter Olympics.

1- Every medal will be distinct at the 2010 Winter Olympics
The first thing you didn't know about the 2010 Winter Olympics is that this year's medal design is especially awesome.

These Olympics have been met with plenty of controversy, in part because they will take place in Vancouver on the traditional territory of four native peoples: the Squamish, Musqueam, Lil'wat, and Tsleil-Waututh. Protesters have harassed the games since their announcement, although missing from the protests have been people from the four affected groups. Instead, they entered an agreement to participate in the planning and preparation of the games all the way back in 2004, and their unique influence will be impossible to miss, above all in their most brilliant and unique contribution: the medals.

Designed by First Nation member Corinne Hunt to be symbolic of the communal nature of the Olympics, each medal features a design fully unique to it. Like a patchwork quilt, you would need to see all the medals put together in order to see Hunt's full artwork.

2- 100,000 free condoms will be available at the 2010 Winter Olympics
You just can't put thousands of young, attractive and physically fit people together in a closed village with fame and glory percolating around them like bubbles in a hot tub and expect them to abstain from something as phenomenal-sounding as Olympic sex.

For this reason, condoms are rarely in short supply at the Olympics, and these games will be no different compliments of the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control. Its 100,000 condom donation to the 6,850 Olympic and Paralympic athletes and staff is nothing if not especially optimistic, since it amounts to about 14 condoms per person.

There are a few more things we bet you didn't know about the 2010 Winter Olympics...

(Olympic sex event? which country have the most)

3- The Cayman Islands will be represented at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Another thing you didn't know about the 2010 Winter Olympics is that another Jamaican bobsled team may be on the way.

The Caribbean nation of the Cayman Islands, not exactly a winter wonderland, will for the first time be sending a representative to the Winter Olympics. Dow Travers -- a giant slalom skier (part of alpine skiing) -- learned to ski in his teens while abroad on a student exchange program. Predictably, he's drawn plenty of comparisons to the famed Jamaican bobsled team, but for his sake let's hope the comparisons end there. In Olympic competition, the Jamaicans have never even cracked the top 10.

The Cayman Islands aren't the only ones sending their first athlete to these Winter Games. Other first-time countries include Ghana, Pakistan and Montenegro -- whose athletes, like Travers, will take part in an alpine skiing event.

4- Ski cross will make its debut at the 2010 Winter Olympics
2010 will mark the emergence of ski cross, one of three Olympic freestyle skiing events (with aerials and moguls). According to the official web site, ski cross "is based on a simple concept: first across the finish line wins." The wild popularity at Turin 2006 of snowboard cross paved the way for ski cross. It's the only new event at these Winter Games.

In selecting ski cross, the IOC Executive Board (EB), the body that decides which events are in and which are out, passed on a handful of others including biathlon mixed relay, bobsleigh and skeleton team competition, and luge team competition because they would only feature athletes already in the games. The EB also passed on women's ski jumping and curling mixed doubles because they felt they aren't fully developed and don't have the necessary technical standards.

The EB has to draw the line somewhere. One sport that has been trying to get into the games since 1996 without success is ski orienteering, in which competitors, armed with maps, ski their way out of hostile environments like forests. If this sounds to you more worthy of a Boy Scout badge than an Olympic medal, relax, you're among friends.

5- NBC bought the TV rights for the 2010 Winter Olympics for $2.2 billion
The last thing you didn't know about the 2010 Winter Olympics is how much NBC plunked down for them.

NBC effortlessly outbid its competitors for the U.S. television broadcast rights to these Winter Games and to the London Summer Games in 2012 by giving the IOC exactly what it wanted; paying a record-breaking sum of $2.2 billion (over $800 million for Vancouver, the rest for London). The network made this offer in 2003, well before either of the venues had been chosen and long before the current economic slump. According to NBC executives, this poor foresight will cost the peacock around $200 million.

FOX plans to make things even worse on NBC by running new episodes of American Idol during Olympic airing times, a show that crushed the games from Turin in 2006 and will likely crush them again.

(NBC is so died)
 
Vancouver 2010: complete guide to the Winter Olympics
Everything you need to know as the competitors prepare for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games.

Where:
Vancouver Richmond and Cypress Mountain: opening and closing ceremonies, ice hockey, curling, figure skating, speed skating, snowboarding and freestyle skiing.
Whistler: alpine and cross-country skiing, biathlon, ski jumping, bobsleigh, skeleton and luge events.

When:
Olympic Winter Games: February 12-28, 2010 [full schedule]


Some 5,500 athletes from more than 80 countries are expected to participate in 86 events across 15 sporting disciplines - alpine skiing. biathlon, bobsleigh, cross-country, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, luge, nordic combined, short track, skeleton, ski-jumping, snowboarding, speed skating.

Germany topped the medal table at the 2006 Games in Torino after winning 11 gold medals, 12 silver and six bronze. Behind them were the USA and Austria, third.


Venues:

Opening and Closing ceremonies (BC Place Stadium)
Ice hockey (Canada Hockey Place and UBC Thunderbird Arena)
Figure skating (Pacific Coliseum)
Speed skating and short track speed skating (Richmond Olympic Oval and Pacific Coliseum)
Freestyle skiing (Cypress Mountain)
Snowboard (Cypress Mountain) Curling (Vancouver Olympic Centre)
Ice sledge hockey (UBC Thunderbird Arena)
Wheelchair curling (Vancouver Paralympic Centre)
Mascots:

Miga: a mythical sea bear, part orca and part kermode bear.
Quatchi: a sasquatch (bigfoot)
Sumi: an animal guardian spirit who wears the hat of the orca whale, flies with the wings of the mighty Thunderbird and runs on the strong furry legs of the black bear. Sumi is the mascot for the Paralympic Games.
Mukmuk: a Vancouver Island marmot.
Facts and figures:

5,500 - the number of athletes and officials expected in Vancouver
1,350 - the number of paralympic athletes expected to compete
80 - the number of countries due to be represented
40 the number of countries expected to be represented by paralympic athletes
1.6 million - the number of spectator tickets available
10,000 - number of media representative expected across the Games
$900 million - the security budget for the Games
$1.76 billion total cost of the Games
4.8 °C average temperature in Vancouver
Vancouver was voted the world's most liveable city in 2009
 
After departing Athens, Greece on October 30th, the Olympic Flame has been traveling across Canada, now about 1/3 of the way into its 106-day, 26,000 km overland relay (another 18,000 km by air). Over 12,000 torch-bearers will carry the flame along a winding path covering all of Canada, passing through over 1,000 communities total - from Toronto, Winnipeg and Calgary to smaller communities such as Gwa'Sala-Nakwaxda'xw, Notre-Dame-du-Lac, Moose Jaw and Sheshatshiu. The final destination: Vancouver's BC Place on February 12, 2010, where it will light the Olympic Cauldron and signal the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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Actress Maria Nafpliotou in the role of ancient Greek high priestess lights the Olympic Flame with a solar reflector for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in ancient Olympia in Greece on October 21, 2009. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

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A Greek actress, who plays the role of priestess, holds the flame during a rehearsal for Thursday's ceremony in the temple of Hera for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in Ancient Olympia, western Greece, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

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Maria Nafpliotou, in the role of an ancient Greek high priestess, lights a torch from the Olympic Flame during the handing over ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at the Panathenian marble stadium in Athens on October 29, 2009. (ARIS MESSINIS/AFP/Getty Images)

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Vancouver Organizing Committee CEO John Furlong leaves the Panathenian Stadium in Athens, Greece, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2009, with the Olympic flame in a miner's lantern following the Olympic Flame handover ceremony. After an eight-day trip through Greece, the flame will be flown to Canada for a 28,000-mile journey which organizers say will be the largest national relay. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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The Olympic flame sits across six seats on a plane as it is separated into six different miners' lanterns before leaving Athens, Greece, bound for Canada, on Friday, Oct. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Young performers dress in costumes as they perform in a torch relay celebration during the torch lighting ceremonies on October 30, 2009 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. (Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)

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Canadian First Nation Chiefs transport the Olympic Flame in a miners lantern across the harbor during the torch lighting ceremonies in Victoria, British Columbia October 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)

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The first torchbearers, former Canadian speed skater Catriona Le May Doan (R) and her compatriot tri-athlete Simon Whitfield, light the Olympic Torch following its arrival in Victoria, British Columbia, October 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)

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Members of the Canadian men's eights rowing team carry the Olympic Torch in Saanich, British Columbia, October 30, 2009. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)

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Dan Scott carries the Olympic torch on his mountain bike as he leaves Fort Rodd Hill National Historic Site during the Olympic Torch relay on October 31, 2009 in Colwood, British Columbia, Canada. (Jeff Vinnick/Getty Images)

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Torchbearer Laura Mongeau holds the Olympic torch atop a lighthouse at Fort Rodd Hill National Park in Colwood, British Columbia October 31, 2009. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)

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Torchbearer Ruth Sadler carries the Olympic Torch into the Pacific Ocean to meet a surfer along the shores of Pacific Rim National Park just outside Tofino, British Columbia November 1, 2009. The torch was carried out to far west coast of Canada on the third day of its 106-day journey leading to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)
 
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Surfer Raph Bruhwiler carries the Olympic Torch while coming ashore along Pacific Rim National Park just outside Tofino, British Columbia November 1, 2009. (REUTERS/Andy Clark)

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Cowichan Band elder Albie Charlie blesses the Olympic Torch held by fellow band member Amber Tommy during a stop in Duncan, British Columbia.

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Torchbearer Richard Hardy holds the Olympic flame in K'omoks, B.C. on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Jonathan Hayward)

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Torchbearer Allan Benjamin carries the Olympic Flame while running in snowshoes in Old Crow, Yukon, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Jonathan Hayward)
 
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Torchbearer Abel Tingmiak is seen wearing his traditional clothing as carries the Olympic Flame past the igloo church in Inuvik, NWT, on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Torchbearer Annika Trimble, left, passes the Olympic Flame off to Mark Lee Orbell who is traveling in a snow grooming machine in Inuvik, NWT,on Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay.

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Torchbearer Terry Kuliktana carries the Olympic flame in Kugluktuk, Nunavut, on Thursday, Nov. 5, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Jonathan Hayward)
 
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The Olympic Flame is lit inside a bus due to high winds and freezing temperatures in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Torchbearer Brenda Eckalook carries the Olympic Flame across the frozen bay in Resolute Bay, Nunavut Canada, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Torchbearer Brenda Eckalook is seen carrying the Olympic flame across the frozen bay by dogsled in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, on Monday, Nov. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Viking impersonators give a speech as torchbearer Frank Humber holds the Olympic flame in a Viking hut in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, on Thursday, Nov. 12. 2009.
 
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The Olympic flame burns in the community cauldron in St. Anthony, Newfoundland, on Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Torchbearer Donna O'Grady holds up the Olympic flame as the sun rises over the ocean in Cape Spear, Canada, Friday, Nov. 13, 2009. Cape Spear is the most easternly point in Canada and North America.
 
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Torchbearer Mike Adam, an Olympic gold medalist in curling, slides on a curling rink with the Olympic flame in St. John's,, Newfoundland, on Friday, Nov. 13, 2009, during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics torch relay. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward)

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Torchbearer and Canadian Paralympic athlete Dean Bergeron carries the Olympic Torch in front of the National Assembly in Quebec City December 2, 2009. (REUTERS/Mathieu Belanger)

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A tall set of Olympic rings were illuminated in the harbor outside the Vancouver Convention Centre, left, in Vancouver, B.C.
 
Miga: a mythical sea bear, part orca and part kermode bear.
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Quatchi: a sasquatch (bigfoot)
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Sumi: an animal guardian spirit who wears the hat of the orca whale, flies with the wings of the mighty Thunderbird and runs on the strong furry legs of the black bear. Sumi is the mascot for the Paralympic Games.
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Mukmuk: a Vancouver Island marmot.
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