The London Olympics 2012 are about to begin. As you watch the opening ceremony and view the Olympic Park it will be hard to believe that this was once a landscape of marshland, and later an industrial site intersected by watercourses and railways which in recent decades had declined into an industrial wasteland. The 250 [more...]
With the 2010 Winter Olympic Games almost upon us, it may be interesting to look back to the first games. The first Winter Olympic Games were held in 1924 in Chamonix, France, a well established ski resort. The week-long games were originally called by the French, “Winter Sports Week”. Politics within the Olympic movement prevented [more...]
When the modern Olympic Movement began, in 1894, the newly-formed International Olympic Committee (IOC) considered ice skating as a possible sport for the first modern Olympic Games, in 1896. Needless to say, that didn’t happen but figure skating was on the program for the 1908 Olympic Games in London. In 1911, it was suggested that [more...]
The Vancouver Organizing Committee has set rigid restrictions on sales for the 2010 Winter Olympics, which will be held in and near Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, in February. Hoping to prevent problems with scalping and counterfeiting, VANOC is limiting ticket sales to one authorized dealer for each country, has set restrictions on ticket transfers [more...]
The 2010 Winter Olympic Games will be hosted by the City of Vancouver and the Resort Municipality of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, from February 12-28 and March 12-2. Half of the tickets are priced at $100 or less. Vancouver, with its spectacular natural beauty, is located in the southwest corner of Canada, bordered to the [more...]