Winter Olympic Games 2010

[Torneyboy]

... look out ... here come the Aussies!

 

 

oi oi oi

[Flashermac]

Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes

 

 

Rowdy curling crowds, spontaneous street parties, public drunkeness. You don't have to look far for evidence that the crowds at Winter Games in Vancouver know how to have a good time.

 

And, as if anymore proof is needed that a wild Olympic atmosphere permeates B.C.'s largest city, now there's an apparent condom shortage.

 

That's right. As you read this, an emergency shipment of condoms is desperately making its way across Canada to the West Coast city.

 

Health officials in Vancouver have already provided 100,000 free condoms to the roughly 7,000 ahtletes and officials at the Games. That's about 14 condoms per person. But as of Wednesday, those supplies started running dangerously low.

 

Naturally, the Canadian Foundation for AIDS research decided to step and make sure there were no hitches in Olympic action.

 

"When we heard about the condom shortage in Vancouver, we felt it important to respond immediately," said Kerry Whiteside, CANFAR's Executive Director. The organization assembled three large boxes of about 8,500 condoms, much to the relief of libidos at the Olympic Village. They're expected to arrive on Thursday.

 

Free condoms first started to be distributed at the Olympics in Barcelona at the 1992 Games. This appears to be the first time that a shortage has struck the Games.

 

 

Link

 

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[color:blue]Ice Hockey[/color]

 

Semi Finals

 

USA- Finland 6:1

Canada - Slovakia 3:2

 

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Ice Hockey Final

 

Canada-USA 3:2

 

GOLD Cananda

SILVER USA

BRONZE Finland

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Medal Ranking

 

Gold/Silver/Bronze

 

01. Canada 14 7 5 =26

02. Germany 10 13 7 =30

03. USA 9 15 13 =37

04. Norway 9 8 6 =23

05. South Korea 6 6 2 =14

06. Switzerland 6 0 3 =9

07. China 5 2 4 =11

08. Sweden 5 2 4 =11

09. Austria 4 6 6 =16

10. Holland 4 1 3 =8

11. Russia 3 5 7 =15

12. France 2 3 6 =11

13. Australia 2 1 0 =3

14. Czechia 2 0 4 =6

15. Poland 1 3 2 =6

16. Italy 1 1 3 =5

17. Slovakia 1 1 1 =3

17. Belarus 1 1 1 =3

19. UK 1 0 0 =1

20. Japan 0 3 2 =5

21. Croatia 0 2 1 =3

21. Slovenia 0 2 1 =3

23. Latvia 0 2 0 =2

24. Finland 0 1 4 =5

25. Estonia 0 1 0 =1

25 Kazachstan 0 1 0 =1

 

 

The Olympic Wnter Games 2010 are closed!

[Torneyboy]

Our best ever result ..well done to all..

[Mentors]

yes it was a great and friendly Tournament and we have won a half dozen Gold medals, more than ever before!

 

Bye bye Vancouver

 

See you in Sochi 2014

 

http://sochi2014.com/en/

[USVirgin]

These Olympics started out as a disaster but worked out pretty well in the end. I'm about to go through Olympic withdrawals.

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It was a great party -- but was it worth the cost?

 

 

That was some party. But now that the first phase of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games is over, with the Paralympic Games on deck, it's time to reconsider the impact of hosting the event.

 

It cost a lot of money, as much as $6 billion depending on who's doing the counting, and studies of the economic impact of the Games suggest a payback in gross domestic product of anywhere from $2 billion to $10.7 billion -- a decent return on investment at the high end, a dead loss at the other. But there's another side of the ledger. Much of this money was used to purchase hard assets that have enduring value and will help the city and province realize social, environmental and economic goals.

 

In any case, we won't know the benefit the Games delivered until we have more data, and that will be a long time coming.

 

full article

 

http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/great+party+worth+cost/2626618/story.html

 

 

 

[Wallenda]

if curling is in the games then lawn bowls and darts should be in the summer olympics. i'm not joking, i see know difference.

 

Well if bobsleds are in the winter games, summer should have go-karts.