The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games are just around the corner. Worldwide excitement is starting to build. The Winter and Summer Olympics are some of the most watched sporting events in the world. The countdown has started and the opening ceremonies will commence in a little over two months from now. Vancouver was given the honor of these games over 5 years ago and has been busy getting ready ever since. Calgary 1988 was a huge success and everyone expects the same for Vancouver 2010.

The Winter Olympic Games are a much anticipated international sporting event that is held every four years. The athletic competitions are held over a period of approximately three weeks and are book ended by a stirring and patriotic opening ceremonies and a breath taking spectacle of closing ceremonies. Events include alpine skiing, luge, cross-country skiing, figure skating, bobsled, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, freestyle skiing, short track speed skating and long track speed skating..

The Vancouver Games will be hosted by a number of different venues around Vancouver, British Columbia. The City of Vancouver will host hockey, figure skating, short track skating and some Paralympics events. Whistler, BC will host the alpine skiing, cross country skiing, bobsled and luge events. Richmond will play host to the long track speed skating while West Vancouver will host the freestyle skiing.  Read more...

How closely do you watch the sector of snowboarding? How closely do you watch the Olympics? If the answer to either of those questions is closely”, then you almost certainly know the name Shaun White. In fact , he was only the U. S. gold medalist for the Men’s Half-pipe in 2006! It’d be fairly hard to miss that if you closely followed either the world of snowboarding, or the Olympics!

Shaun White was born Sep three,’86, in San Diego California. He lived there for almost all of his life, though he now lives and works out of Carlsbad, California. His early life was fraught with difficulty, as he was born with an inborn heart defect known as tetralogy of Fallot. Fortunate for him, they caught it at an early age, and he had 2 cardiac surgeries before the age of 5. Tetralogy of Fallot leaves a sixty p.c survival rate if not caught by the age of four, so had they not caught it, it’s possible we wouldn’t be able to discuss Shaun White today. But they went and did, and he went on to turned into one of the most famous names in snowboarding.  Read more...