2010 Olympic Games

AP – The Olympic torch has arrived at Parliament.

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A parliamentary welcome for Olympic torch
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American driver Todd Hays will likely miss this weekend’s World Cup races after crashing during a training run in Winterberg, Germany.

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U.S. Driver Hays Injured in Bobsled Crash

Vancouver 2010 organizers plan to rake in some extra cash by selling figure skating-practice tickets for $30 a pop.

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Figure skating-practice, Paralympic closing ceremony tickets on sale Friday

Former overall snowboarding World Cup champion Doresia Krings will return to the circuit in an attempt to qualify for next year’s Vancouver Olympics.

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Former snowboarding champ comes out of retirement

Olympic leaders have approved changes in track cycling and added mixed doubles tennis for the 2012 London Games.

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IOC adding mixed doubles tennis to Olympics

MOSCOW — It’s not a joke. According to the KHL website, Vyacheslav Fetisov will play for CSKA Moscow in a regular season game in the Kontinental Hockey League on Friday. One of the most outstanding players in the history of hockey is 51. CSKA Moscow head coach, Sergei Nemchinov, said he expects Fetisov to play against SKA St. Petersburg in a regular season KHL game on Friday. If Fetisov really plays, it will be 35 years after he debuted with CSKA Moscow in 1974-75, at the age of 17

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Fetisov makes comeback at 51

Gold-medal Olympic performances are coming to the silver screens at 12 cinemas in B.C. this February.

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$29.95 ‘passport’ gets Olympic events on giant movie screens

On 9 December in Lausanne, the traditional joint meeting between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board (EB) and the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Executive Council saw lively discussions, with the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010 high on the agenda.

Two months before the opening of the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver, Canadian security officials said Wednesday they are on pace to deploy about 15,000 police, private security and military personnel as part of an extensive security effort expected to cost nearly $1 billion.

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Security tab for Vancouver Olympics nears $1 billion

The 2010 Olympics will pump $800 million in travel-related spending to the Metro Vancouver economy next year, helping the regional economy grow by 3.9 per cent after shrinking by 2.1 per cent this year, according to a Central 1 Credit Union forecast. The forecast said the impact would have been closer to $1 billion if the global recession hadn’t taken place, reducing the number of Games visitors and the spending plans of those who do come.

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Olympics to pump $800m of travel spending into Vancouver’s economy in 2010: forecast