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2010 Olympic Venues
The facilities for the Vancouver Olympics will be broken down into two categories competition and non-competition venues.
Competition Venues
The Competition Olympic venues for the Vancouver Olympics will be located in four adjacent cities Whistler, West Vancouver, Vancouver and Richmond.
Vancouver is the hub of the Olympic activity, but events for the games will be spread throughout these four different locales:
2010 Winter Olympics Update
Cypress Mountain- West of Vancouver BC. where snowboarding, freestyle skiing, moguls and ski cross will take place.
Whistler Sliding Area – Blackcomb Mountain is the site for the bobsleigh, Luge, and Skelton
Whistler Creekside – Whistler Mountain will host the Alpine Skiing, Downhill, and the Super G.
Whistler Olympic Park – Callaghan Valley will hold the Biathlon, Cross country Skiing, Nordic Combined, and Ski Jumping.
UBC Winter Sports Centre – University of B.C. is the home of the Ice Hockey games and Ice Sledge Hockey.
Pacific Coliseum – Hastings Park will have the Figure Skating events and Short Track SpeedSkating.
Hillcrest/ Nat Bailey Stadium Park will host the Curling events.
General Motors Place – Downtown Vancouver will also hold some of the Hockey games.
BC Place Stadium will hold the Opening and Closing ceremonies, the medal round of Hockey, as well as nightly victory ceremonies.
Whistler Celebration Plaza will also hold some of the Victory celebration ceremonies.
Ticket sales:
Tickets will go on sale around October 11, 2008. You can go to www.cosport.com to fill out an inquiry form. They will be sold in 4 different stages. Ticket prices will range from $25.00 – $1100.00. Opening Ceremonies $175-$1100 Closing Ceremonies $175-$775 Ice Hockey Finals $350, $450, $775 Figure Skating Gala Exhibition $175-$525 The Cheapest tickets will be for the cross country skiing $25-$75 and the Women’s Ice Hockey will have some for $25. Some the more sought after events will be sold as a lottery. There will also by an on-line ticket buy-sell exchange program.
General information:
It would be best to start planning your trip to the Winter Olympics as soon as possible as lodging could be limited. If you plan on flying, the airport is Vancouver International Airport (YVR). Whistler is about a 2 hour drive from the airport. Another lodging alternative would be to stay in Seattle WA. The airport in Seattle is called Sea-Tac Airport. It is about a 3 hour drive and you would have the border crossing to go through. Remember that passports will be required at the crossing by that time.
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