The XXI Olympic Winter Games   The XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event held on February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, The 2010 Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics hosted by Canada, and the first by the province of British Columbia.    The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) spent $16.6 million on upgrading facilities at Cypress Mountain, which will host the freestyle (aerials, moguls, ski cross) and snowboarding events. The athletes' villages in Whistler and Vancouver are now complete, as are the main media centre in Coal Harbour and its Whistler counterpart. With the opening in February 2009 of the $40-million Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre at Hillcrest Park which will host curling, every sports venue for the 2010 games was completed on time and at least one year prior to the games.   The opening ceremonies (February 12, 2010) and closing ceremonies (February 28, 2010) will be held at BC Place Stadium, which received over $150 million in major renovations. Competition venues in Greater Vancouver include the Pacific Coliseum, the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre, the UBC Winter Sports Centre, the Richmond Olympic Oval and Cypress Mountain.  GM Place, home of the NHL's Vancouver Canucks, will play host to ice hockey events,   renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the games.

XXI Olympic Winter Games 2010  logo-  Ilanaaq the Inukshuk.

Vancouver 2010 will be broadcast worldwide by a number of television broadcasters. In Canada, the games will be the first Olympic Games broadcast by a new consortium led by CTVglobemedia and Rogers Media.  In the United States, Associated Press (AP) plans to send 120 reporters, photographers, editors and videographers to cover the games  The Olympic Torch Relay is the transfer of the Olympic flame from Ancient Olympia, Greece — where the first Olympic Games were held thousands of years ago — to the stadium of the city hosting the current Olympic Games.     82 National Olympic Committees have entered teams in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Fifteen winter sports events have been announced as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Vancouver 2010 will also be the first winter Olympics in which both men's and women's hockey will be played on a narrower, NHL-sized ice rink. The IOC voted in 2006 not to include women's ski jumping in the 2010 Games.   VANOC used lines from the Canadian national anthem to serve as the official slogans for the games ("with glowing hearts" in English and "des plus brilliants exploits" in French)    The XXI Olympic Winter Games

XXI Olympic Winter Games The  logo-  Ilanaaq the Inukshuk. Host city - Vancouver, BC, Canada Motto - With glowing hearts  Nations participating - 82 Athletes participating - 2,632  Events -  86 in 7 sports Opening ceremony -  February 12 Closing ceremony -  February 28 Olympic Torch - Catriona LeMay Doan, Nancy Greene, Wayne Gretzky and Steve Nash Stadium - BC Place Stadium

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