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The Vancouver Olympic Village is located in section 2A of Southeast False Creek. The site, a former industrial area which mostly consisted of parking lots, is located on the shoreline at the southeast corner of False Creek, north of First Avenue between Ontario and Columbia Streets.
The Birds was the first work of public art to be approved under the city's Olympic and Paralympic Public Art Program. [1] [2] It was installed in Southeast False Creek Olympic Plaza, which served as the site of the 2010 Olympic Village, in April 2010. [1] [4] MacLeod was inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 film of the same name. She has said of ...
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games (French: XXI es Jeux olympiques d'hiver) and also known as Vancouver 2010 (Squamish: K'emk'emeláy̓ 2010), were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 12 to 28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the surrounding suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the ...
The Swedish women's hockey team at the dining hall at the Olympic Village in downtown Vancouver in 2010. (Mark Ralston / AFP via Getty Images file) “It’s kind of the heart of the Olympic ...
BC Place Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Olympic sites map For the 2010 Winter Olympics, a total of ten sports venues were used, seven in Vancouver (including BC Place), and three in Whistler. The majority of ice sport events were held in Vancouver, while Whistler, which normally serves as a ski resort, hosted the snow events. Six non-competition ...
dnorman, flickr All eyes will be on Vancouver when the opening ceremonies kick of the 2010 Winter Olympics on February 12th. Any Vancouver travel guide will tell you this British Columbian city ...
The Vancouver Downtown Historic Railway was a heritage electric railway line that operated from 1998 to 2011 between Granville Island and Science World (Olympic Village Station after 2009), in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It operated only on weekends and holidays, usually from May to mid-October, and was aimed primarily at tourists.
If you love the Olympics, but not enough to pay the exorbitant fees to watch them live in Vancouver, try getting a little closer to the action -- virtually -- with the Vancouver 2010 Official ...