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ajax 03-01-2010 08:23 PM

Where the fuck was Drake during the closing! Avril? Nickleback? Luckily I got tix for free!

skyxx 03-01-2010 09:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RRxtar (Post 6839096)
http://www.facebook.com/v/364476737993

my vid from yesterday about half an hour after we won gold.


thats me sliding the flag onto the tree branch at the end :D

I thought you were ASIAN...damn...

orange7 03-01-2010 09:26 PM

By the numbers: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
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February 12 to 28, 2010

- 17 days of thrilling competition and athletic accomplishments
- 15 sport disciplines
- 9 competition venues
- 3 Olympic training facilities
- 86 medal competitions
- 86 Victory Ceremonies (16 in-venue medal presentations, 25 at BC Place
and 45 at Whistler Medals Plaza)
- 615 medals awarded
- 1,055 athlete bouquets presented
- 82 participating National Olympic Committees (NOCs)
- 6,500 athletes and team officials in total
- 2,632 registered athletes
- 50,000 workforce members for the Games, including paid, contractor and
volunteers
- Of that total, 18,500 were volunteers; 6,500 volunteers will also work
during the Paralympic Winter Games
- 25,000 workforce uniforms distributed
- 96,409 people accredited for the Games
- 10,800 media representatives: 7,000 rights holding broadcasters, 2,800
press reporters and photographers and non-rights holding broadcasters,
as well as 1,000 host Olympic Broadcast Service (OBSV) personnel
- 3.5 billion worldwide television viewers are estimated to have tuned
into the Games
- Olympic rights holding broadcasters have offered Vancouver 2010 Winter
Olympic Games coverage on more than 300 TV stations and on more than
100 websites worldwide
- 47 per cent more global television coverage of the Games than for the
Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games
- This represents approximately 24,000 hours of coverage
- 50,000 hours of total broadcast hours of the Games across all media
platforms around the world
- 6,000 hours of coverage worldwide on mobile platforms
- As of Day 15, 33.1 million Canadians (99 per cent) have watched
coverage
- 27.7 million cumulative audience or CUME (meaning 82.7 per cent of
Canadians) experienced the Games on February 27 through the platforms
of Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
- 1,500 appearances by the Vancouver 2010 mascots: Quatchi, Miga and
Sumi by the end of the Games
- 20,567 deliveries made to Olympic venues
- 1.6 million tickets available for the 2010 Winter Games
- More than 3.3 million pairs of Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens sold
- $500-million target for gross retail sales of Vancouver 2010 branded
merchandise met by end of Games
- 2.2 million people engaged to date by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural
Oympiad, which will continue for three more weeks
- More than 4,000 artists at 600 events, over 60 days in 60 venues are
taking part in the Cultural Olympiad
- More than 12,500 volunteer hours clocked for Olympic Closing Ceremony.
The thousands of volunteer performers range in age from 10 to 68
- More than 450 racks of costumes, 3,600 metres of elastic, 4,100 pairs
of shoes, 18 kilograms of glitter, 10,000 green sequins, 200 giant
spheres and balloons, as well as 20 zygote balls were used in the
Opening and Closing Ceremonies
- 275 million visitors in total to www.vancouver2010.com, shattering the
previous record of 105 million set during the Beijing 2008 Games
- 78 million total unique visitors to the site
- A record of 9,185,306 unique visits in a single day -- set on February
24. The previous record set during the 2008 Summer Games was 8,797,614
on August 11, 2008
- Vancouver2010.com was visited 85 million times this month from within
Canada and reached more than 70 per cent of Canadians with Internet
access and over 50 per cent of the total Canadian population
- 19.1 per cent of North Americans with Internet access visited the
website this month
- 4.6 per cent of people worldwide with Internet access visited the site
this month
- 14,000 followers on Twitter.com/2010Tweets
- More than 1.25 million downloads recorded for the official mobile
spectator guide, which for 10 days of the Games was the No. 1 free app
in Canada
- 1.1 million Facebook fans, nearly four times the total amount for
Beijing at the conclusion of the 2008 Games.


http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/a.../28/c5535.html

hal0g0dv2 03-01-2010 09:33 PM

dam i keep going on ctv so see anything Olympics
:fuuuuu:

AVS_Racing 03-01-2010 09:35 PM

WOW just WOW cant believe we beat BJ olympics in some figures

skyxx 03-01-2010 09:39 PM

For a second, when you said BJ olympics. I was thinking of something else. :lol my bad!

hal0g0dv2 03-01-2010 09:41 PM

i wonder how much places made off the Olympics
like food places hotels and such

skyxx 03-01-2010 09:42 PM

Bartending tips should have skyrocketed 400%.

hal0g0dv2 03-01-2010 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skyxx (Post 6839568)
Bartending tips should have skyrocketed 400%.

yeah shit
lots of places raised prices to right

orange7 03-01-2010 09:52 PM

They forgot to mention the number of condoms used. lol..

chouchou 03-01-2010 09:53 PM

hey can anyone find me a link of the video or who the athlete was that said she felt like she failed all of canada? tearful apology or something like that. it was after she failed to podium after being a favourite?

thanks in advance

RRxtar 03-01-2010 09:54 PM

Im really let down that CTV and TSN had absolutely nothing Olympic on today. I was really hoping for an hour long wrap up show or something. anything. :( and its going to be sad to watch the 11pm CTV news without the awesomeness.

hal0g0dv2 03-01-2010 09:55 PM


jlo mein 03-01-2010 09:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jivan6 (Post 6839292)
maybe this will cheer you up? just uh watch it over and over YouTube- Vancouver 2010 Olympics Block Party

Its kind of ironic everyone is dancing to Kid Cudi and then chanting "fuck USA".

jlo mein 03-01-2010 10:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by skyxx (Post 6839568)
Bartending tips should have skyrocketed 400%.

I noticed a few restaurants were instituting mandatory 15% gratuity regardless of party size. Perhaps this is because tipping is a foreign concept in many other countries.

skyxx 03-01-2010 10:08 PM

^ More so a European thing.

iamaudi 03-01-2010 10:10 PM

"It's can't-miss drama. And the two best teams in the world, playing each other. But also, there's something bigger at stake."

So true.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore..._to_hocke.html

fliptuner 03-01-2010 10:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $$$$$$$ (Post 6839622)
"It's can't-miss drama. And the two best teams in the world, playing each other. But also, there's something bigger at stake."

So true.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore..._to_hocke.html

Quote:

Right up until Team USA beat Canada 5-3 in the preliminary round. That set off hand wringing, lots of talk about revenge, and some big-time nerves. But mostly, the Canadians called it a fluke.

For the U.S., winning gold in 2010, would amount to a nice little victory. The Americans are the fastest team in the tournament, they've come together over the last few weeks and have fostered a true sense of team. And they have a red-hot goaltender in Ryan Miller.
1. Most Canadians didn't call it a fluke.
Read the Olympic Hockey thread on here. US goaltending, US offense, lack of communication amongst Canadian defence and goalie mistake, missed opportunities on offence.

2. Nice little victory? Way to downplay.
The US wanted gold as badly as anyone else.

invader 03-01-2010 10:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $$$$$$$ (Post 6839622)
"It's can't-miss drama. And the two best teams in the world, playing each other. But also, there's something bigger at stake."

So true.

http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/ore..._to_hocke.html

Nice article, one of the readers post:

Quote:

so the canadians have hockey
latinos have soccer and recently - baseball
blacks have football and basketball
chineese have acrobats and ping pong
eastern europe has hot women
india has all our jobs


it is a sad time to be a strait white american male

noots 03-01-2010 10:49 PM

so does anybody have tickets to any paralympic events? can't wait to check out sledge hockey

HonestTea 03-01-2010 11:11 PM

How much are the tickets?

skyxx 03-01-2010 11:15 PM

^ CHEAP! and you can buy them on the day at the venues! Last I heard the cheapest venue tickets are 22 bucks!

v.Rossi 03-01-2010 11:20 PM

I can't believe after all that waiting, the olympics is actually over. Plus the hockey game was sick, how intense.

That was a once in a lifetime thing. When are you ever going to go downtown drunk and high and giving everyone high fives? Never, what about seeing everyone all over granville? Never. I'm glad I partied my hardest like a Canadian would.

I'm still thinking was it all just a dream?

skyxx 03-01-2010 11:22 PM

^ Most important part about it was the "Care-free" atmosphere. That's what sets it apart from almost any other "parties".

Durrann 03-01-2010 11:36 PM

anyone else regret that they didnt explore more now that olympics are gone?


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