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VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPICS

Everyone knows about the Summer Olympics. But, there is also a Winter Olympics. They do winter things like skiing and ice skating.

On friday, Febuary 12, at 9:00, Vancouver held the opening ceremony. Although I fell asleep at about 9:30, I got to see the Canadian natives come across the stage, and a couple contries come on to the stage. I would also like to make a tribute to the Georgian luger Nodar Kumariitashvilli, (he was 21 yrs. old) who lost control of his sled. During a trianing session on friday, he went on turn 15, and when he went to turn 16, flew off the sled, hit a metal scoreboard, and died soon after.

Most Olympics have mascots. The olympic mascots names are Quatchi, Miga, MukMuk and Sumi. The mascots are important things and lengands that symbolize Canada. Like one is a sasquatch, a sea bear, and a earth helper. To learn more about the mascots and the winter olympics, vist this site: []

Here are some of the events that will take place: alpine skiing, biatholon, cross-contry skiing, curling, luge, figure skating, free skiing, ice hockey, nordic combined, short track, skeleton, snowboarding, and speed skating. To find the times, go to the same site as the mascots.

Vancouver is in Canada. It is in the British Columbia province. The city`s poupulation is currently 583,296. It is surrounded by 3 oceans, and it has coastal mountain ranges.

This is the warmest winter olympics there have ever been. So Vancouver is usally cold and snowing. But it is currently warm and raining. It was very hard to do moguls. So, they put dry ice in these plastic black tubes to create bumps. They also had to ship in a LOT of snow.

Tune in to the 2010 winter olympics, because if you don`t, you will have to wait 4 more years!!!