2010 Winter Olympics

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XXI. winter Olympics
2010 Winter Olympics logo
With glowing hearts / Des plus brillants exploits
Venue: Vancouver ( Canada )
Stadion: Vancouver Olympic Stadium
Opening ceremony: February 12, 2010
Closing ceremony: February 28, 2010
Opened by: Michaëlle Jean ( Governor General of Canada)
Olympic oath : Hayley Wickenheiser (athlete)
Michel Verrault (referee)
Disciplines: 15 (7 sports)
Competitions: 86
Countries: 82
Athletes: 2566
Turin 2006
Sochi 2014
Medal table
space country G S. B. Ges.
1 CanadaCanada Canada 14th 7th 5 26th
2 GermanyGermany Germany 10 13 7th 30th
3 United StatesUnited States United States 9 15th 13 37
4th NorwayNorway Norway 9 8th 6th 23
5 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 6th 6th 2 14th
6th SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 6th - 3 9
7th China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China 5 2 4th 11
SwedenSweden Sweden 5 2 4th 11
9 AustriaAustria Austria 4th 6th 6th 16
10 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 4th 1 3 8th
Complete medal table

The 2010 Winter Olympics (also known as the XXI Winter Olympics ) were held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver , the largest city in the Canadian province of British Columbia . Various competitions also took place in the ski resort of Whistler as well as in the suburbs of Richmond and West Vancouver . Both the Winter Olympics and the subsequent Winter Paralympics were organized by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) . Canada hosted the Olympic Games for the third time in 2010 , following the 1976 Summer Games in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Games in Calgary . As early as 1976 Whistler, where most of the competitions in snow sports took place, had unsuccessfully applied for the organization.

Choice of venue

Logo of the candidacy

In the intra-Canadian elimination of the Canadian Olympic Committee , Vancouver prevailed against Calgary (which was aiming for a second event after 1988) and Québec (which had failed with the candidacy for the 2002 Winter Games). After a bribery scandal surrounding the awarding of the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City was uncovered, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) introduced a new selection process in 1999, which places significantly more emphasis on the technical aspects of a candidacy and is intended to prevent corruption. Since then, an evaluation committee has been reviewing the individual applications and making a pre-selection.

Other candidate cities were Pyeongchang in South Korea and Salzburg in Austria. Bern in Switzerland withdrew its candidacy after 80% of the population voted against hosting the Games in a referendum. Previously, the IOC's Evaluation Commission had not approved applications from Andorra la Vella in Andorra, Harbin in the People's Republic of China, Jaca in Spain and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina, where the 1984 Winter Olympics were already taking place. On the occasion of the 115th IOC Congress, which took place in Prague , the IOC members elected Vancouver on July 2, 2003 in the second round. A referendum had already taken place in Vancouver in February of the same year; 64% then voted in favor of hosting the Olympic Games.

Election results
city country 1 round 2nd round
Vancouver CanadaCanada Canada 40 56
Pyeongchang Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 51 53
Salzburg AustriaAustria Austria 16 -

Logo, mascot and slogan

The games logo, designed in 2005, depicts an Inuksuk and bears the name Ilaanaq ( Inuktitut for "friend"). A similar Inuksuk has been on the beach at English Bay in Vancouver since Expo 86 .

The official mascots Miga (a mythical sea bear, part orca , part Kermode bear ), Quatchi (a Bigfoot ) and Sumi (a mythical creature with the wings of a Thunderbird english (: thunderbird) and the legs of a black bear ). As an additional advertising medium, Mukmuk ( Vancouver marmot ) is being sold as a plush toy. The mascots are modeled on traditional First Nations creatures .

The motto of this Olympic Winter Games is the official bilingualism of Canada. Two excerpts from the Canadian national anthem O Canada were chosen: The English-language motto is "With glowing hearts" and the French-language motto "Des plus brillants exploits" (German: "Extraordinary achievements").

Torch relay

Arnold Schwarzenegger carried the torch on February 12, 2010 in Vancouver

After the Olympic flame was lit in Olympia on October 22, 2009 , the torch relay began on October 30, 2009 from the provincial capital Victoria on Vancouver Island across Canada. She covered 45,000 kilometers. First it went north through the three territories in the Canadian Arctic . At the Haida Gwai archipelago she was transported by the Haida in a traditional canoe. The torch reached the northernmost point in the Yukon on November 4th in Old Crow when it was flown in with a Boeing 737. From St. John's (Newfoundland) the ten provinces were crossed in an east-west direction. 118 traditional areas of the First Nations ( Indians ) were crossed. She arrived in Vancouver on February 11, 2010.

Around 12,000 torchbearers were expected to be on foot, on dog sleds, on snowmobiles, on horseback, in airplanes and by other means of transport. However, the route had to be changed due to protests in Iroquois reservations , more precisely the Oneida of the Thames near London . Other groups decided not to mix up the Olympic Games and criticism of Indian policies in their respective provinces, but instead celebrated the arrival of the torch , like the Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Ontario .

Competition venues

Map of the competition venues

In the venue itself, the competitions in the sports of ice hockey , short track , curling and figure skating were held in a total of four halls. The speed skating competitions took place in the neighboring suburb of Richmond , and those of the ski freestylers and snowboarders in West Vancouver , 20 kilometers away . In Whistler , 125 kilometers from Vancouver , the alpine and Nordic skiing competitions were held, as were competitions in the sports of biathlon , bobsleigh , luge and skeleton .

There were two Olympic Villages , one on False Creek was the Olympic Village in Vancouver and the other in Whistler. The media center was the Vancouver Convention & Exhibition Center . The covered BC Place Stadium was the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies, which means that for the first time these ceremonies were not held in the open air at all.

Vancouver

Richmond

West Vancouver

Whistler

Attendees

The states participating in the 2010 Winter Games are marked in green
Europe (1825 athletes from 47 nations)
America (447 athletes from 11 nations)
Asia (293 athletes from 16 nations)
Oceania (56 athletes from 2 nations)
Africa (7 athletes from 6 nations)
(Number of athletes) * Participation in winter games for the first time

Ceremonies

Opening ceremony

Reception by the four First Nations

The opening ceremony of the XXI. The Winter Olympics took place on the evening of February 12, 2010 at the covered BC Place Stadium in Vancouver. The producer and artistic director of the opening ceremony was Australian David Atkins, who had already been responsible for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the opening and closing ceremony of the 15th Asian Games 2006 in Doha with his company David Atkins Enterprise (DAE) .

Before the start, the hall spokeswoman announced that the celebration would be in memory of the luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili from Georgia who had died in an accident a few hours earlier . This was followed by a film in which a snowboarder descends from the mountains near Vancouver down towards the city. In the end, the snowboarder jumps through the Olympic rings in the hall. This was followed by the greeting of the IOC President Jacques Rogge and the Governor General Michaëlle Jean as well as the entry of the Canadian flag into the stadium. The flag was hoisted while the singer Nikki Yanofsky , the Canadian national anthem sang. This was followed by the entry of the chiefs of the four First Nations involved in hosting the Games into the hall. Four welcome totems appeared in the middle of the hall, around which Indian dances and chants were performed, reminiscent of traditional celebrations at large gatherings ( potlatch ). The four host nations Squamish , Musqueam , Lil'wat and Tsleil-Waututh spoke words of welcome in their languages. The first two tribes represented the culture of the coastal Salish and their history , a culture of the Pacific northwest coast characterized by fishing and monumental carvings, the latter that of the inland Salish , which is more characterized by hunting and equestrian nomadism.

Invasion of Canadian athletes

This was followed by the invasion of the participating nations, which took place earlier than usual. Traditionally, the Greek team opened this point on the program. When the Georgian athletes entered the hall, the spectators rose to show their sadness and concern. The standard bearer of the German team was bobsleigh pilot André Lange , for Austria it was Andreas and Wolfgang Linger (it was Andreas Linger's wish that his partner, with whom he had won the gold medal in Turin, also receive this honor), for Switzerland it was figure skater Stéphane Lambiel and for the host country Clara Hughes . After the invasion sang Bryan Adams and Nelly Furtado together Bang the Drum , followed by the audience involved with the beating of drums. This was followed by a show part under the leitmotif landscape of a dream , which was strongly influenced by the Indian past and history of Canada. Among other things, a floating Kermodebear , the constellations of the four cardinal points, which the Indians revered, as well as the marine fauna with especially whales and salmon were depicted . To a song by Sarah McLachlan which became Alberta Ballet on. Another musical contribution included violin playing and tap dancing during Indian Summer in Eastern Canada. The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland then quoted from "Who Has Seen the Wind", a novel by WO Mitchell that tells of a boy, the Canadian prairie and the wind. To the song "Both Sides, Now" by Joni Mitchell , Thomas Saulgrain, an ensemble member of the Montreal National Circus School, floated over the symbolized prairie. This was followed by a depiction of the Rocky Mountains : actors who imitated Olympic winter sports floated along the modeled mountains onto which sports images were projected. The end of the show part marked a slam poet who tried to capture the character of Canada.

At the beginning of the official part of the opening event, the IOC President and the President of the Organizing Committee, John Furlong, offered their condolences and sorrow over the death of the Georgian luge. Then came Furlong's opening address, in which he welcomed the athletes whose role model character and the support of the Games in Canada were evoked. In his address, Jacques Rogge thanked Canada, the Four Nations and all those responsible as well as volunteers and called for compliance with the Olympic ceasefire . He also reminded the athletes of the Olympic values. Then the Governor General of Canada declared the Vancouver Winter Olympics open.

Igniting the Olympic flame

While Leonard Cohen sang Hallelujah for a long time , doves of peace were projected, picking up on an old symbol of the opening ceremonies. Then contributed Bobby Orr , Donald Sutherland , Jacques Villeneuve , Barbara Ann Scott , Anne Murray , Romeo Dallaire , Julie Payette and the mother of the deceased from cancer marathon runner Terry Fox , the Olympic flag in the hall leading to the sounds of of Measha Brueggergosman sung Olympic Anthem was hoisted. This was followed by a minute's silence for Kumaritashvili. Hayley Wickenheiser spoke the Olympic oath for the athletes in English, Michel Verrault that for the judges in French. Then Garou sang the song Un peu plus haut, un peu plus loin .

The last item on the program was the lighting of the Olympic flame. Former disabled athlete Rick Hansen drove the torch into the hall, where the fire was passed to Catriona LeMay Doan , Steve Nash , Nancy Greene and most recently Wayne Gretzky . When the fire was about to be lit, a shaft opening stuck so that one of the four supports holding the flame bowl could not be extended. Finally, there was fireworks over the hall as Wayne Gretzky carried his torch into town, where he lit a copy of the Olympic brazier.

The producer and artistic director of the opening and closing ceremonies was the Australian dancer and choreographer David Atkins , who had already been responsible for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney .

Commons : 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Closing ceremony

The closing ceremony took place on February 28 at 5:30 p.m. local time (Pacific Time; March 1, 2:30 p.m. CET) at BC Place Stadium . The Olympic flag was presented by Gregor Robertson to Mayor Anatoly Pachomov of Sochi , Russia , where the XXII. 2014 Winter Olympics will be held. The ceremony was accompanied u. a. through appearances by William Shatner , Michael J. Fox , Catherine O'Hara , Michael Bublé , Neil Young , Nickelback , Simple Plan , k-os , Marie-Mai , Avril Lavigne , Hedley and Alanis Morissette .

Competition program

86 competitions (46 for men, 38 for women and 2 mixed competitions) in 7 sports / 15 disciplines were held. The IOC Executive Council decided on the exact implementation of the program at its meeting in November 2006 in Kuwait . All competitions held in Turin in 2006 remain in the program of the 2010 Winter Games. In addition, a ski cross competition in freestyle skiing will be held. The men's ice hockey tournament is being redesigned . In three groups, each with four national teams, three group winners and one best group runner-up are determined. These teams are directly qualified for the quarter-finals. The other eight teams play the four other quarter-finals in a quarter-final qualification. The new mode reduces the number of games from 38 to 30.

Team competitions in luge, bobsleigh, skeleton and alpine skiing, mixed curling and ski jumping for women were not included in the program. In particular, women's ski jumping caused a controversy. Fifteen women ski jumpers, including world champion Lindsey Van , sued the VANOC Organizing Committee in April 2009 at the British Columbia Supreme Court, demanding that their sport be included in the competition program. In July 2009, the court came to the conclusion that the IOC was solely responsible for the compilation of the competition program and that it was not subject to Canadian law. The plaintiffs went to the Supreme Court of Canada alleging a violation of the equality article in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . However, the highest judicial authority in the country declined to assess the case in December 2009. The following is an overview of the changes to Turin 2006 :

  • Freestyle skiing has been expanded to include ski cross for men and women.
  • In the Nordic Combined , the competitions normal hill 15 km Gundersen and large hill 7.5 km Gundersen were shortened or extended to 10 km Gundersen each.

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Number of competitions in brackets

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  • Competitions

    biathlon

    In the first competition of these games, the women's 7.5-kilometer sprint, Anastasiya Kuzmina from Slovakia won her country's first gold medal at the Winter Games. She and the second-placed German runner Magdalena Neuner each had a shooting error, in contrast to their competitors in positions three to ninth, who all finished without a mistake.

    In the men's category, the French Vincent Jay won the 10-kilometer sprint a day later, ahead of the Norwegian Emil Hegle Svendsen and the Croatian Jakov Fak . The competition was affected by a snow shower in the middle of the competition, which gave the first starters an advantage. The best Austrian was Simon Eder in 11th place, the best Swiss Thomas Frei in 13th place and the best German was Christoph Stephan in 19th place, behind Ole Einar Bjørndalen , who came in 17th.

    In the women's pursuit over 10 kilometers on February 16, 2010, the German Magdalena Neuner won the gold medal ahead of the Slovak Anastasiya Kuzmina and the French Marie-Laure Brunet .

    The men's pursuit (12.5 km) on the same day was won by the Swede Björn Ferry ahead of the Austrian Christoph Sumann and the French Vincent Jay .

    Magdalena Neuner won gold again in the women's mass start over 12.5 kilometers. Silver and bronze went to the Russian Olga Saizewa and Simone Hauswald from Germany.

    In the men's mass start race over 15 kilometers, the Russian Yevgeny Ustjugow won with zero errors, ahead of Martin Fourcade from France, who made three mistakes, and the Slovak Pavol Hurajt , who also made no mistakes . So the DSV representatives could surprisingly not win an Olympic medal in any competition.

    The gold medal of the women's relay over 4 x 6 kilometers was won by the team from Russia with Svetlana Slepzowa , Anna Bogali-Titowez , Olga Medwedzewa and Olga Saizewa . Silver went to the French women Marie-Laure Brunet , Sylvie Becaert , Marie Dorin and Sandrine Bailly . This succeeded despite two penalties. Bronze went to the German team with Kati Wilhelm , Simone Hauswald , Martina Beck and Andrea Henkel .

    Bobsleigh

    Both in training and in competition there were many falls, even by experienced and favored bobsleigh teams. Some bobsleigh teams were forced to forego a start in the competition after training falls in the men's two-man bobsleigh competition due to injuries suffered by pilots and pushers. Other bobsleigh teams withdrew from the competition due to the risk of falls and injuries.

    There was a German double victory in the two-man bobsleigh, with pilot André Lange defending his 2006 Olympic gold (except for the first run, he set the fastest time in every round). The Austrian Wolfgang Stampfer's sled was disqualified after the first run due to being overweight. The reason for this was that regular man Martin Lachkovics had to pass due to injury at short notice and substitute Jürgen Mayer is significantly heavier than Lachkovics. In the four-man bobsleigh USA 1 (pilot Steven Holcomb) won ahead of Germany 1 (Lange) and Canada 1 (Lyndon Rush). It was the first US Olympic four-man bob gold in 62 years (USA II won 1948 in St. Moritz with Francis Tyler, Patrick Martin, Edward Rimkus and William D'Amico). - Lange won silver in the last of the four races with a 1/100 lead over the Canadians. For the exceptional driver Lange it was his fifth Olympic medal at the end of his successful career. - Austria's four-man bobsleigh with Wolfgang Stampfer, Johannes Wipplinger, Jürgen Mayer and Christian Hackl crashed in the first run (was 24th, 2.75 seconds behind USA 1) and did not start in the second.

    Curling

    Canada made it to the finals in both men's and women's competitions. In the men's category, Canada beat Norway 6-3. Switzerland won bronze with 5: 4 against Sweden. In the women’s category, Canada defeated Sweden 6: 7 and had to be content with silver. China won bronze 12: 6 against Switzerland.

    ice Hockey

    Canada reached the finals in the men's and women's competitions and on February 28th won the men's competition against the USA after extra time 3: 2 (1: 0, 1: 1, 0: 1 - 1: 0) after it had already been in the second period 2-0 and had to accept the equalizer 25 seconds before the end of regular time. Two days earlier, the Canadian women had also defeated the USA 2-0. Finland beat Slovakia 5: 3 (1: 0, 0: 3, 4: 0) and secured the bronze medal.

    figure skating

    Speed ​​skating

    The first speed skating competition was the men's 5000 meter race. It was won by Sven Kramer , who was able to prevail against the South Korean Lee Seung-hoon and the Russian Iwan Skobrew . Sven Kraner also won the 10,000 meter run with superiority, but was disqualified because of a wrong lane change that he had made after nine laps on the instructions of his trainer Gerard Kemkers . It would have been the hundredth Olympic gold for the Netherlands. The winner was Lee ahead of Skobrew and Bob de Jong .

    In the women's 3000 meter run, the Czech Martina Sáblíková won ahead of the German Stephanie Beckert , while the Canadian Kristina Groves came third ahead of the German Daniela Anschütz-Thoms . The Czech Martina Sáblíková also won the women's 5000 meter run ahead of the German Stephanie Beckert. The bronze medal went to the Canadian Clara Hughes ahead of the German Daniela Anschütz-Thoms. The German Katrin Mattscherodt was disqualified because she nudged a lane boundary block in the second round of her run.

    In the men's 500 meters, the South Korean Mo Tae-bum won ahead of the two Japanese Keiichirō Nagashima and Jōji Katō . The competition was delayed by about an hour in the middle of the first run due to problems with the ice freshening machines.

    In the women's 500 meters, South Korean Lee Sang-hwa won ahead of German Jenny Wolf and Chinese Wang Beixing .

    The final of the women's team pursuit was won by Germany ahead of Japan. In the battle for the bronze medal, the Polish women prevailed against the USA.

    Freestyle skiing

    In the first competition of freestyle skis on the moguls, the American Hannah Kearney prevailed over the Canadian Jennifer Heil and her teammate Shannon Bahrke . In the men's category, the Canadian Alexandre Bilodeau won ahead of his compatriot Dale Begg-Smith , who started for Australia, and the American Bryon Wilson .

    Luge

    A few hours before the opening ceremony, Nodar Kumaritashvili had an accident during the final training for the individual Olympic race in the finish area after he skidded on the Thunderbird curve, the last of the 16 corners of the Whistler Sliding Center , and was thrown off the track after the curve. He crashed into an unprotected steel girder of the railway roof that was open to the railway. The last speed measurement shortly before the target curve, which was already slightly uphill, was 144 km / h. Despite immediate resuscitation measures by the helpers at the Whistler Sliding Center, Kumaritashvili died on the way to the Whistler hospital. IOC Vice President Thomas Bach officially confirmed the death.

    Even before the accident, there was criticism of the planning of the Whistler Sliding Center. Immediately afterwards, the German bobsleigh and skeleton trainer Raimund Bethge and the president of the international luge association Fédération Internationale de Luge de Course (FIL) Josef Fendt described the track as too fast. There was a minute's silence at the opening ceremony.

    At short notice, the FIL decided to shorten the race distances in order to reduce the speed so that the men started from the women's start, the women and the doubles from the junior start.

    Felix Loch finally won the men's race ahead of David Möller (both Germany) and the Italian defending champion Armin Zöggeler . The 20-year-old hole became the youngest ever Olympic luge winner.

    The women's race was won by Tatjana Hüfner from Germany, ahead of Nina Reithmayer from Austria and Natalie Geisenberger from Germany .

    The 2006 Olympic champions Andreas Linger and Wolfgang Linger defended their title in two-seater tobogganing with a considerable lead . The surprise duo Andris and Juris Šics from Latvia landed on the places ahead of the Germans Patric Leitner / Alexander Resch , who ended their successful careers with this race.

    Short track

    The first short-track competition was the men's 1500 meters, which the Korean Lee Jung-su won ahead of the two Americans Apolo Anton Ohno and John Celski . The 1000 meter competition also went to Lee Jung-su. The 23-year-old Latvian Haralds Silovs was the first athlete in Olympic history to compete in two different sports on the same day (see summary of results).

    skeleton

    Szymkowiak , Williams and Huber at the medal presentation

    The skeleton competitions were held on February 18 and 19, with both men and women having their first two runs on February 18 and final runs three and four on February 19.

    In the women's competition, Brit Amy Williams won the gold medal in front of the two German starters Kerstin Szymkowiak and Anja Huber . These were the first ever Olympic skeleton medals for Germany.

    In the men's race, the Canadian Jon Montgomery took the lead in front of a home crowd with seven hundredths of a second ahead of the Latvian Martins Dukurs . Bronze went to the Russian Alexander Tretyakov .

    Alpine skiing

    Various alpine ski races have been postponed due to the weather conditions. The men's departure took place two days after the scheduled date. Olympic champion was the Swiss Didier Défago ahead of the Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal and the American Bode Miller .

    The women's downhill run was also postponed due to the weather and only one training run could be carried out. This was also divided into two stages, first the upper section, then the lower, because the men's race taking place at the same time ended in the same finish stadium. Several runners had serious falls during the race on the demanding slope. It was won by the favorite Lindsey Vonn ahead of Julia Mancuso , both USA. The Austrian Elisabeth Görgl , like her mother Traudl Hecher 50 years earlier, won the bronze medal.

    For the first time at the Olympic Games, the rules of the super combination were used, in which, contrary to the previous combination mode, only one slalom run takes place after the downhill run. The German Maria Riesch won her first Olympic medal in front of the American Julia Mancuso. Third was the Swede Anja Pärson , who had a serious fall on the special descent the day before. Lindsey Vonn, the fastest in downhill skiing, was eliminated after a "threading-in" in the slalom.

    The men's Super-G was marked by many failures and a serious fall for the “old Swede” Patrik Järyn . After silver in the downhill, Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal won gold ahead of Bode Miller, USA. The American Andrew Weibrecht caused a surprise with bronze - he has never been on a World Cup podium before.

    After the Austrian Ski Association suffered a heavy defeat in the men's Super-G, Andrea Fischbacher won the Austrian women's first ski gold. The Slovenian Tina Maze won her first Olympic medal with silver, Lindsey Vonn her second Olympic medal with bronze.

    Cross-country skiing

    The first medals in cross-country skiing were awarded in the women's 10 kilometer freestyle. Gold was won by Charlotte Kalla from Sweden, ahead of Estonian Kristina Šmigun-Vähi and Norwegian Marit Bjørgen .

    In the first men's cross-country skiing competition - 15 kilometers freestyle - the Swiss Dario Cologna won gold. He relegated the Italian Pietro Piller Cottrer and the Czech Lukáš Bauer to places two and three.

    Ski jumping

    The first Olympic medals were awarded in ski jumping on the normal hill. It was won by Simon Ammann from Switzerland, ahead of Adam Małysz from Poland and Gregor Schlierenzauer from Austria . Simon Ammann also managed the longest jump of all participants in the second round with a distance of 108 meters, after having already won the first round with a distance of 105 meters. - The German Michael Uhrmann had bad luck, who fell back to the “sheet metal rank” after the 1st round after rank 2 and again, after the 2006 Olympics, had to accept this ungrateful placement. The second “unlucky person” of the DSV was Pascal Bodmer, who missed the “cut” after finishing 31st in the first round - and he was particularly unlucky: When he wanted to jump with the starting number 40 in really good wind conditions, he was not allowed. Reason: The zipper on his suit was broken (the suit must be legal). After an arduous procedure, he was the last to jump, but was exasperated and only managed a weak 95.5 m. - There were discussions about Amman's “setup”, especially by the main competitor Austria, but the Swiss man's material complied with the regulations.

    Ammann also won on the large hill, again ahead of Małysz and Schlierenzauer. Both Simon Ammann (who repeated his “double gold” from 2002) and Adam Małysz won four Olympic medals. And they always stood together on the podium. - Amman became the second best Swiss winter Olympic athlete (behind alpine runner Vreni Schneider) and the third best Olympic jumper behind Matti Nykänen (FIN) and Jens Weißflog (GER).

    In team jumping, the Austrians confirm their previous achievements in the World Cup. In each of the eight rounds, an Austrian jumped the greatest distance. Schlierenzauer achieved the highest distance in all three competitions with 146.5 meters. With a record lead of 72.1 points, almost as much as from second to eighth, Wolfgang Loitzl , Andreas Kofler , Thomas Morgenstern and Gregor Schlierenzauer won ahead of Germany with Michael Neumayer , Andreas Wank , Martin Schmitt , Michael Uhrmann and the Norwegians Anders Bardal , Tom Hilde , Johan Remen Evensen and Anders Jacobsen .

    Nordic combination

    After the first Nordic Combined competition, the medal table for this discipline was expanded to include two countries. Behind the winner, the leading French Jason Lamy Chappuis in the World Cup , Johnny Spillane ( USA ) and Alessandro Pittin ( Italy ) crossed the finish line and thus won the first ever medals for their countries in an Olympic competition in Nordic combined.

    In the team competition, the team from Finland led after the jumping with Janne Ryynänen , Jaakko Tallus , Hannu Manninen and Anssi Koivuranta before the USA with Brett Camerota , Todd Lodwick , Johnny Spillane and Bill Demong . The team from Austria with Bernhard Gruber , David Kreiner , Felix Gottwald and Mario Stecher was behind in third place. The German team, consisting of Johannes Rydzek , Tino Edelmann , Eric Frenzel and Björn Kircheisen , took sixth place, Switzerland ninth. For a long time, the Austrians fought a duel with the Americans in cross-country skiing. A few hundred meters from the finish, however, the Austrian final runner Mario Stecher was able to break away from his opponent Bill Demong and thus secured the Austrians (somewhat unexpectedly) the second Olympic gold medal in the team competition after Turin in 2006, ahead of the second-placed US-Americans. The team from Germany took third place, Switzerland defended their ninth place against Italy.

    The second individual decision brought a US double victory for Demong before Spillane; Gruber got bronze.

    Snowboard

    Outstanding athletes

    The most successful participant in the Vancouver Games is the Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjørgen with three golds, one silver and one bronze each. Behind them are the Chinese short track runner Wang Meng with three gold medals and the Norwegian cross-country skier Petter Northug with two gold and one silver and one bronze medal. The most successful German participant is the biathlete Magdalena Neuner with two gold medals and one silver medal, the best Austrian is ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer with one gold and two bronze medals and the most successful Swiss with two gold medals is Simon Ammann , also a ski jumper.

    Simon Ammann is still the first ski jumper to become a four-time Olympic champion in individual competitions; he won the jumping on the normal and the large hill and thus repeated his double success from 2002 . With his victory in the two-man bobsleigh - his fourth gold medal since 2002 - the German André Lange became the most successful bobsleigh pilot in Olympic history. Together with his pusher Kevin Kuske , he won gold at three winter games in a row.

    The Latvian speed skater Haralds Silovs was the first athlete at the Olympic Games to compete in two different sports in one day. On February 13, just a few hours after finishing 20th in the 5,000-meter speed skating competition , he took part in the 1,500-meter competition in the short track , in which he was able to qualify for the B final.

    Brian McKeever , multiple Paralympic winner in 2002 and 2006, has been nominated for the Canadian cross-country skiing team. McKeever, who suffers from Stargardt's disease and has eyesight of just ten percent, is the first Paralympian to take part in the Winter Olympics. However, he was not used by the Canadian head coach for any race.

    The oldest participant in the Games, aged 51, was the alpine ski racer Hubertus von Hohenlohe , who started for Mexico and who took part in the Winter Olympic Games for the first time in 1984 . The youngest participant was the Australian freestyle ski racer Britteny Cox at the age of 15 . Felix Loch from Germany became the youngest Olympic champion in luge at the age of 20.

    Marit Bjørgen , the most successful female athlete at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
    The most successful participants
    rank athlete country sport gold silver bronze total
    1 Marit Bjørgen NorwayNorway Norway Cross-country skiing 3 1 1 5
    2 Wang Meng China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Short track 3 0 0 3
    3 Petter Northug NorwayNorway Norway Cross-country skiing 2 1 1 4th
    4th Lee Jung-su Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea Short track 2 1 0 3
    Magdalena Neuner GermanyGermany Germany biathlon 2 1 0 3
    Emil Hegle Svendsen NorwayNorway Norway biathlon 2 1 0 3
    7th Martina Sáblíková Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic Speed ​​skating 2 0 1 3
    8th Simon Ammann SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland Ski jumping 2 0 0 2
    Charles Hamelin CanadaCanada Canada Short track 2 0 0 2
    Marcus Hellner SwedenSweden Sweden Cross-country skiing 2 0 0 2
    Maria Riesch GermanyGermany Germany Alpine skiing 2 0 0 2
    Zhou Yang China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China Short track 2 0 0 2
    13 Stephanie Beckert GermanyGermany Germany Speed ​​skating 1 2 0 3
    14th Justyna Kowalczyk PolandPoland Poland Cross-country skiing 1 1 1 3
    Bode Miller United StatesUnited States United States Alpine skiing 1 1 1 3
    Aksel Lund Svindal NorwayNorway Norway Alpine skiing 1 1 1 3

    reporting

    watch TV

    The 2010 Winter Olympics were broadcast on numerous television stations around the world. All broadcasting rights are part of a package which also includes the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , so that the television stations for the most part identical were included. The broadcasts were produced by Olympic Broadcasting Services Vancouver , a subsidiary of the IOC's own production company Olympic Broadcasting Services (OBS). The 2010 Winter Games are the first for which OBS has provided all transmission facilities.

    In the host country Canada, for the first time, public television CBC / Radio-Canada did not broadcast the Olympic Games, but a new consortium consisting of CTVglobemedia and Rogers Media .

    In Germany , the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF started regular operation of high definition television (HDTV) with their offshoots Das Erste HD and ZDF HD on the occasion of the Winter Olympics. The MDR was commissioned to lead the public service reporting . The picture format was 16: 9. The specialty channel Einsfestival and the ZDFinfokanal broadcast decisions about sports with less interest from viewers. The private sports broadcaster Eurosport also reported extensively and live from the competitions in a 4: 3 format. Other German television stations (including RTL , Sat.1 and ProSieben ) reported in detail on the games.

    In Austria, the public broadcaster ORF broadcast all current competitions from around 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. or 8 a.m. the following day and reported extensively on them on ORF 1 HD . There were reports from the Olympics for 212 hours. The highest number of spectators was recorded by the men's giant slalom (1.296 million) before ski jumping on the large hill (1.261 million), the women's Alpine Super-G (1.260 million), and the men's downhill with 1.222 million (highest value even 1.634 million) and team ski jumping (1.220 million). - In Switzerland took over SF two (German), TSR 2 (French) and La 2 (Italian) this task; in addition, HD suisse broadcast in high resolution format.

    The “Four Host Nations”, cultural and commercial interests

    Four First Nations want to take part in the games , the politically correct name for the indigenous people of Canada. They are known as the Four Host First Nations . They include the Lil'wat , Musqueam , Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh . Their representatives were present at the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Games in Turin .

    The leaders of the four First Nations signed a contract with the Organizing Committee of the Games, which guarantees them copyrights to numerous symbols and logos and corresponding income from product marketing. A third of this income should go to the indigenous people of Canada, more precisely to cultural, educational and sports facilities. The government of Nunavut , where almost only Inuit live, is represented by works of art, such as the emblem of the games. The chairman of the four First Nations is the Squamish Tewanee Joseph.

    Not only the airports in Seattle and Vancouver were prepared, but also regional airports, train stations and other facilities within a radius of around 250 kilometers. Since no branch of the economy in Washington has grown as quickly as cultural tourism , the state on Canada's southern border also promised economic effects, as did the Indians of the state.

    The local Lummi built the Gateway Center near Interstate 5 , which connects Seattle and Vancouver , in which shops are located next to a cultural center. They also expect more visitors to the reserve , especially at the Silver Reef Hotel Casino Spa . In 2007 it hosted over a million visitors.

    Numerous Upper Skagits are also employed there, as well as at the Semiahmoo Resort Golf Spa , which belongs to the tribe , around 55 kilometers south of Vancouver, and at the Loomis Trail Golf & Country Club in Blaine near the Canadian border. In Bow , 115 kilometers south of Vancouver, they own the Skagit Valley Casino Resort and the Skagit Ridge Hotel . Only the Tulalip Resort Casino Hotel & Spa in Quil Ceda Village is bigger than these facilities.

    On the edge of the area that wants to benefit directly from the games is the Jamestown S ' Klallam area . This tribe acquired the Dungeness Golf Course in January 2007, plus numerous accommodation options.

    criticism

    Criticism of the games came on the one hand from the indigenous people on whose land the games took place; on the other hand, it was directed against the debt, which is estimated at the equivalent of around one billion euros, money that flowed mainly to the IOC as well as local construction companies and real estate dealers. These critics consider the games to be a taxpayer subsidy.

    Indian criticism

    Members of the surrounding First Nations , as the indigenous population in Canada are called, protested against the hosting of the Winter Games in their areas even before the award was made. They urged athletes and tourists to respect human rights and stay away from the 2010 Games. The preservation of these areas is important to the tribes for ecological reasons, but also to preserve their traditional way of life and to build an economic foothold through ecotourism .

    The legal background is complex. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 1997 that the establishment of the state of Canada in 1867 did not erase the rights of the indigenous peoples. He also decided that rights relate to the land, its resources and the right to cultural traditions and political autonomy. From this, the courts derived an obligation to consult the respective tribe at an early stage in the event of structural interventions in the traditional territories of the tribes.

    But the criticism relates not only to these questions, but also to the legitimacy of the four “host nations”. For the critics, their leaders, mostly the chiefs, are only government representatives who have been brought into office by the Indian Act .

    Review from Vancouver

    The Olympic Resistance Network (ORN) was founded in Vancouver, accusing the Olympic Committee of getting rich. He is entitled to 20 percent of the profit, more than 50 percent of the income from television broadcasts and 7.5 percent of the profits from merchandising can be paid out . They point out that Montreal took 30 years to pay off the debt from its 1976 Summer Olympics .

    They also criticize the fact that around 900 surveillance cameras were installed near the sports facilities, and another 100 in the party zones. In total, at least 100,000 trees were felled. The freedom to demonstrate was severely restricted both at the venues and on the access roads. Even the airspace over Vancouver was forbidden for banners.

    The Integrated Security Unit , headed by Bud Mercer, to which 7,000 police officers, 4,500 soldiers and 5,000 employees of private security services belong, is supposed to ensure safety and tranquility. All these measures have earned the games the nickname “surveillance games”. They have caused supporters of the Games in British Columbia to drop from 63.5% to less than 50%.

    Cheap quarters that had previously been inhabited by homeless people were demolished for the Olympic village . It was planned to use some of the new apartments as social housing after the event - which will not work for cost reasons. Since the games were awarded, the number of homeless people has tripled to 3,000. The games resulted in costs of over four billion euros.

    Environmental impact

    The organizers had set themselves the goal of staging the “greenest Olympic Winter Games” and achieving CO₂ neutrality through energy-saving construction methods and compensation measures , but this did not succeed. The ZDF recorded over 300,000 additional tons of CO 2 . The Highway 99 to the Whistler venue was expanded and a ridge was blown away for this purpose. The environmental balance of the buses used, 20 of which are hydrogen- powered, is negative because the hydrogen has to be delivered from Québec, 5100 kilometers away . At least 100,000 trees were felled for the bobsleigh runs, ski jumps and slopes. The timber for the Richmond Olympic Oval was sourced from pest-infested areas where lesser regulations apply.

    At the time of the Games, there was an acute lack of snow and temperatures of around ten degrees in the region, triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon . In order not to have to cancel the competitions in Cypress Mountain , the organizers delivered snow from Manning Provincial Park, 250 kilometers to the east . They also had pipes with dry ice laid under the slopes to hold the snow cover. There were costs in the tens of millions.

    Criticism of the organization

    The organizers and officials were criticized several times during the games. The bobsleigh and toboggan run of the Whistler Sliding Center and the women's downhill run were criticized by the participating athletes as being too dangerous. After the fatal accident of the Georgian tobogganist Nodar Kumaritashvili before the start of the games, the bobsleigh track was defused and the start for the women was moved further down. The target jump on the women's downhill run in the alpine skiing competition was also defused after several sometimes violent falls during training. At the urging of the sponsor GM, the officials decided against machines from market leader Zamboni for speed skating . This led to holes and bumps in the ice, whereupon a Zamboni machine was flown in from Calgary. There was also criticism of the handling of adverse weather conditions. Unstable weather conditions in the alpine and Nordic ski competitions resulted in strongly changing conditions for the athletes. Last but not least, there was also criticism from the audience, who complained that ticket prices were too high. This and the withdrawal of tickets by the IOC for security reasons meant that numerous spectator seats were unoccupied.

    literature

    Web links

    Commons : 2010 Winter Olympics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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