Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

Aerial Downtown Vancouver Photo – False Creek North, just across from the Olympic Village.

Vancouver (AFP) – Penpix of stars to watch at the February 12-28 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver: CURLING Eve Muirhead Blonde teenager Muirhead is the new face of curling, a sport keen to shed its fusty image as the chosen winter activity of middle-aged, aran sweater-wearers. Photogenic, a talented musician and golfer, Muirhead even has [...]

National Presentation and Touring Program highlights Canadian talent in dance, theatre and music Vancouver, BC— In celebration of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, up-and-coming Canadian musicians, dancers and actors involved in the Cultural Olympiad are hitting the road with a national touring program featuring over 40 shows in cities large and small. [...]

Paris (AFP) – The long-running rivalry between South Korea’s Kim Yu-Na and Japan’s Mao Asada is set to spice up the women’s figure skating competition at the Olympic Winter Games. The fact that world champion Kim has dominated the season so far and Asada, the 2008 world champion, has struggled takes nothing away from the [...]

Los Angeles (AFP) – Canada and the United States are the Olympic gold medal favourites as the rest of the world continues to play catch-up in women’s ice hockey. It’s virtually certain that the two nations will clash in the championship game on February 25 at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games as history is on [...]

Berlin (AFP) – The current king and queen of cross-country skiing – Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic and Poland’s Justyna Kowalcyzk – will be looking to add Olympic gold to this winter’s success in Vancouver. The pair triumphed at the Tour de Ski in Val di Fiemme, Italy, earlier this month, but will both [...]

Paris (AFP) – Anglo influence is on the increase in Olympic sliding events after decades of domination by the German-speaking nations. That domination largely continues in luge and bobsleigh – but in skeleton the Americans, Canadians and the British are making a name for themselves as they hurl themselves down icy, twisting, banked tracks in [...]

Hong Kong (AFP) – Olympic moguls champions Dale Begg-Smith and Jennifer Heil will be looking to dazzle in Vancouver as they bid to defend their freestyle skiing titles with confidence sky-high. The top draw in snowboarding is Shaun White, the reigning halfpipe gold medallist, highly fancied to add to his huge haul of trophies as [...]

Kitzbuhel (AFP) – Former Olympic and World Cup champion Hermann Maier insisted on Thursday that he would not go back on his decision to quit skiing despite the upcoming Vancouver Olympic Winter Games. Maier, 38, won four Olympic medals in his illustrious career (including two golds in 1998), six world championship medals as well as [...]