2010 Winter Olympics Events Schedule

2010 Winter Olympics: The XXI Winter Olympics take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in February, 2010. Skiing events include alpine skiing (downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G, and super combined), freestyle skiing, cross country skiing, and nordic combined, which incorporates ski jumping and cross country skiing.

Here are all the details, including events, venues, schedules, and top US and international competitors:  2010 Winter Olympics

2010 Winter Olympics Schedule: If you have never enjoyed, or survived, the Olympic experience in person and you are aiming for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, get your calendar ready to make plans. The International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) have released the official 2010 Daily Competition Schedule giving a day-by-day breakdown of the sporting activities over the 17 days of Olympic competition and the 9 days of Paralympic competition.

Some highlights of the schedule are: the Opening Ceremony will begin at 6:00 pm on February 12, 2010 and the final sport event of the Olympic Winter Games, the men's gold medal hockey game is scheduled for February 28, at 12:15 pm. The first Paralympic event will be the men's and ladies' alpine skiing competitions beginning at 9:30 am on March 13th, with the final Paralympic sport event, the men's and ladies' one-kilometer sprint finals in cross-country skiing, at 12:00 pm on March 21.

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