<!– templateDebugMode: start template: common/embeddedMedia.html – templateCell: globalDefault.embeddedMedia –> <!– /templateDebugMode: end template: common/embeddedMedia.html – templateCell: globalDefault.embeddedMedia –> 2012 is going to be a busy year. The year 2023 is by many separate accounts seen as being a portal into what some people call the Golden Age.  2012 marks according to the The Mayan Calendar, the ending [...]

—>>Watch 2010 Winter Olympics Online Streaming With the 2010 Winter Olympics upon us, don’t expect NBC to fulfill your live online streaming.  The coverage schedule has been released, and you guessed it, NBC will be airing the most popular events live on it’s broadcast television network.  The problem for most people in North America is [...]

Wheelchair curling is a spin off of regular curling for athletes with disabilities. This adaptation of curling is played with the same rocks and on the same ice surface as curling. One of the main differences in this event is that the rocks are thrown from a stationary position in the chair and there is [...]

Take a good look at the Vancouver Olympic home rental market.  Many families are willing to take the risk and rent out their homes for the very first time with hopes that there will be a lucrative rental contract to balance the risk.  Not since 1986 when the World Exposition focused the attention of the [...]

The Winter Olympics began in 1924 and have been growing in leaps and bounds since then. Similar to the Summer Olympics, there’re some events that ignite athletics fans’ imagination more than others. These events draw the largest spectator crowds and get the most airtime on television. It would be prudent to state that of the [...]

The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics will be held Feb. 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with some events held in the nearby resort town of Whistler.   Nearly 100 nations from around the world have qualified at least one athlete or team [...]

The Ancient Olympics, the main races of the Greeks, where celebrated in honor of Zeus at Olympia. While the origin of the Olympic Games is not known with precision, according to tradition, the first the celebration was in 776 BC. According to mythology, Idaios Herakles was the founder, who had be present to the birth [...]

The Paralympics Biathlon is one of the two Nordic skiing disciplines to be held during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. The Paralympic biathlon includes events for standing competitors as well as competitors that have to remain sitting down and the visually impaired athlete. For the short distance biathlon the athletes will race in a 2.5 [...]

Click Here to Download Ringtones from the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event which is being celebrated in Beijing, People’s Republic of China, from August 8 (with football starting on August 6) to August 24, 2008, and [...]

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is just getting started. From February 12 to the 28th of 2010 the winter sports world will set all their eyes on the fantastic city of Vancouver, British Columbia. This will be the very first time this Canadian landmark of a city will offer their facilities for the Olympic games. [...]

The Canadian Winter Olympic  Association chose Vancouver as the Canadian candidate city over Calgary, which sought to re-host the games and Quebec City, which had lost the 2002 Olympic bid in 1995. On the first round of voting on November 21, 1998, Vancouver-Whistler had 26 votes, Quebec City with 25 and Calgary 21. On December 3, 1998, [...]

Often called the greatest sporting show on earth, the world is turning its collective eyes towards the Central Kingdom – Beijing, China for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. The Beijing 2008 Summer Games has not been without controversy since the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing its host city status on July 13, 2001. It [...]

Aerialists FreeStyle Skiing Tickets, usually built of wood, sometimes metal and then covered with snow, that propel them up to 40-50 feet in the air. Once in the air, professional aerialists perform multiple flips and twists before landing on a 34- to 39-degree inclined landing hill about 100 feet in length. The top male aerialists [...]

Official Winter Olympics website Vancouver2010.com review The Vancouver2010.com is the official website of the winter Olympics and winter games, hosted in the city of Vancouver, Canada, on the 12th of February. The opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics will be celebrated in a much anticipated thrill, with all eyes focused on the dances, presentations, [...]

In the alpine regions of Austria, Italy and Switzerland luge Olympic is also considered a family sport with many luge tracks all over the region.Traditionally most of these tracks do not offer any lifts or other technical help – you are supposed to walk up the mountain, pulling or carrying your own luge (this may [...]

The 2010 Olympic Games competition is about to start. Although we don’t know for sure how the olympics will turn out, we know who the potential Olympic stars may be. Nothing is for certain, but we should keep an eye on our US Olympic athletes because many of them could be 2010 Olympic Games stars [...]

Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland has decided to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic games in an act of protest against Chinese actions in Tibet. This is a fact that few people through out the world are aware of and perhaps even fewer actually care about for at the end of [...]

In less than two days from now the eyes of the world will be focused on Vancouver, British Columbia and the hundreds of supremely talented athletes who will be competing there. It might be helpful to have a basic understanding of the events in which these athletes will take part in order to more fully [...]

Not only did the 1992 Summer Olympics bring Barcelona to the centre of the world stage, but they also gave this historical city a new lease of life. As with many cities that have been given such a prestigious and monumental event, cash was injected to give visitors a good impression, and the numbers of [...]

History of Equestrian Olympic Games: As with many sports, competition wasn’t international until the invent of the Olympics in the year 1896. Equestrian events did not appear in the Olympics until 1912 in Stockholm,Sweden. It was in 1906 that Count Clarence von Rosen, who was a well traveled and adept horseman and “Master of the [...]