| Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010 |
| OooOo |
Vancouver, Canada denes pobedi vo trkata izmegju Pyeongchang, South Korea i Salzburg, Austria koja se odrzhuvashe vo Praga.
PRAGUE -- Vancouver, Whistler and all of Canada are cheering Wednesday at news the 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be held in British Columbia.
IOC head Jacques Rogge made the announcement as thousands cheered in Vancouver's GM Place and on Whistler's main square.
"The International Olympic Committee has the honour of announcing that the 21st Olympic Winter Games in 2010 are awarded to the city of Vancouver," IOC president Rogge said after the second and final ballot.
The vote was extremely close. A South Korean bid was in the lead after the first ballot, but Vancouver pulled ahead by three votes after the Austrian bid was eliminated.
"We did it! We did it! We did it!" yelled Canadian Olympic ski champion Nancy Greene Raine, as the crowd roared in the packed GM Place stadium in downtown Vancouver.
People danced a giant conga line around Whistler Village following the news. About 5,000 people crammed into the Village Square in the centre of Whistler for the announcement.
The Austrian city of Salzburg, considered by many Vancouver's main rival for the Games, was ousted in the first round of voting by IOC delegates earlier in Prague.
Vancouver's bid then beat out that of Pyeongchang, South Korea, on the second ballot, in a 56-53 vote.
The decision came through in a video link from Prague at about 8:45 a.m. Pacific time, and was instantly celebrated across Canada, including a big crowd watching from 1988 Olympic host Calgary.
The only other previous Canadian Olympics were the Summer Games of 1976, hosted by Montreal.
Vancouver officials called their proposal the Sea-to-Sky Games, drawing heavily on the city's ocean setting framed by rugged, snow-capped mountains.
The Canadian bid -- which cost $35 million Cdn -- pointed to a sophisticated urban centre on the shores of the Pacific Ocean with a world-class alpine resort just 125 kilometres north.
Under the Vancouver plan, hockey, curling, speed skating, freestyle skiing, plus the opening and closing ceremonies would be held in and around the city.
Alpine events, cross-country skiing, ski jumping, bobsled and luge will be staged in Whistler.
The final push in Prague, which included 45 official delegates and a multimedia presentation featuring hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, Olympic gold medallist speed skater Catriona Le May Doan, Prime Minister Jean Chretien and B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell, cost $875,000.
Bid organizers say a Vancouver Olympics will operate on a budget of $2 billion, with the provincial and federal governments evenly splitting $620 million in costs to build venues and another $200 million for security.
This doesn't include the $600 million the province has promised to upgrade the serpentine Sea-to-Sky Highway linking Vancouver with Whistler.
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| Whitebaby |
Opa... znachi ideme u Canada 2010 [:D] |
| OooOo |
jup, a bogami i aljaska kje ni bide preko put :)
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| slasa |
i jas idam se pripremam so skiite za kratka staza :-)) |
| Whitebaby |
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Originally posted by OooOo
jup, a bogami i aljaska kje ni bide preko put :)
For you my friend... ANY TIME!!! My home is your home!!![:)] |
| slasa |
OoooO togas odime na Riba i na pivce :-)
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| OooOo |
ideme, shto da ne ... vchera gledav na vesti, ushte od vchera turisti pochnale da rezerviraat hoteli vo vancouver. Bog da chuva ...
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| Whitebaby |
Do 2010 bogami familijarno ke treba da ideme... so po tri-chetiri komada deca [:D] |
| OooOo |
kaj mene bliznaci se, znaesh toa
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| Whitebaby |
amin amin... jas sekoj den po eden blagoslov za bliznaci ti mavam, si znaesh ti [;)][:)] |
| Canmak |
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The only other previous Canadian Olympics were the Summer Games of 1976, hosted by Montreal
How can you forget about Calgary ? Montreal was the summer olympics, Calgary had the winter olympics |
| Whitebaby |
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Originally posted by Canmak
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The only other previous Canadian Olympics were the Summer Games of 1976, hosted by Montreal
How can you forget about Calgary ? Montreal was the summer olympics, Calgary had the winter olympics
Da OooOo, sram te bilo... kako smeeshe da zaboravish na Calgary!!![:o)] Ja brukash kanadskata nacija... [|)] |
| OooOo |
u pm ... u calgary se igrashe djeben bilijard :(
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| slasa |
[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D][:D] Car si nema sto |