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Look at the idyllic alpine village of Whistler. Photo: Reuters / Kaja Sajovic
12 February majalah hai online 2010 will be the opening ceremony at BC Place Stadium, the largest stadium with balonasto structure in the world, officially started on 21 Winter Olympic Games. It will be for Canada for the third consecutive game (previously majalah hai online the biggest sporting event hosted in the summer of 1976, in Montreal and in the winter of 1988 in Calgary), but it should rather try to be in close settlement by Pjong Čangom this South Korean majalah hai online city beat for a scant three votes .
The main venues will be two: the wider Vancouver, majalah hai online cosmopolitan, 2.5-million-city on the Pacific Ocean, which combines American, majalah hai online European and Asian influences, and a little mountain resort of Whistler, which is already in the top lists of the best ski resorts in North America. In Vancouver, the competition in ice hockey, figure skating, curling majalah hai online and snowboarding, there will also be an evening medals.
Along the picturesque coastal road to the Alpine venue the 90-kilometer ride along the narrow and winding scenic road with a poetic name of Sea to Sky, with alternating views of the ocean and snow-covered peaks on the warning signs "moose crossing", totems, hanging bridges and clearing where view of a female majalah hai online bear with cubs is not uncommon to us in Whistler.
You will be charged in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, biathlon, spade, ski jumping and Nordic combined. majalah hai online At both of these locations will also be the Olympic Village, which accelerated during these months to build.
Many of the construction site at all, it seems that the region despite its spectacular nature and the city, which combines modern high-rises with exotic Chinese Quarter and the historic old brick work, became in preparation for the games one big construction site. When the Canadian highway majalah hai online that leads straight from a few kilometers from the border with the U.S. incursion into the city, you first "cure" a bunch of detours, dug up roads and cranes.
But everything is already receiving the image of Olympic venues - boards are installed, the flag fluttering in souvenir shops shirt with moose, maple syrup and Postcards working company official majalah hai online Olympic mascots and clothing with the logo of the upcoming games. majalah hai online
Merging with the natural urban Canadians majalah hai online hope to games added additional impetus to the already successful tourism that will show the world primarily as a good organizer, Canada, the land of fairy tales, "which you can see in our own backyard bears, eagles and whales, then You are in the city center in 15 minutes, "said the director as designers in the organizing committee.
It is this connection the urban-natural environment had in mind when they built the visual appearance of games. The result? Graphics, that will be the background of all Olympic, from buildings to uniforms consist of images of ferns, leaves, fabric samples and urban landscapes. majalah hai online Around 6,000 signboards with such images, with Chinese lampijončki and white parasols (a tribute to the image of Vancouver rain) will be hung only in the city center of Vancouver.
An epic journey torches At the same time, the organizers majalah hai online recently revealed the renewed official website where you can find videos, majalah hai online behind the scenes insight majalah hai online into the preparation and presentation of the three official mascots: Miga (sea bear, typical of the coast of Vancouver Island), QUATCHEM (Sasquatch, mythical creature from Canadian Forest) and Sumi (according majalah hai online to Indian mythology, animal spirit who lives in the mountains majalah hai online of British Columbia).
Special feature of this year's games will also travel the Olympic torch - this is what is on the 45,000-kilometer route by land, sea and air lights on every corner of Canada, from the Pacific coast to the icy north and across the plains to the Atlantic provinces. Visited will also host two previous games, Montreal and Calgary, as well as national parks, lighthouses and the Indian community. The trail, which will be launched on 30 October 2009 in Victoria and ended 106 days later in Vancouver, she will go in the history books as the longest domestic torch relay trip so far.
Wealth for security and how much they will cost a magnificent sporting events, packed in grazing on the eyes? Number organizers as always reveal only after going over BC Place stadium exudes the last fireworks closing ceremony on 28 February. But after the initial figures were talking majalah hai online about six billion dollars of which should only pay for the security of one billion. Olympic Games in Turin in 2006, for example, will cost "only" three billion, summer in Beijing this year, a staggering 43 billion.
Canada is preparations for the games would not confronted with such problems as China, which had particularly criticized the ethical controversy of respect of human rights abuses and delays in building sports facilities.
Indians Protest A first problem is nevertheless already there: majalah hai online because tickets are going for the big event by October started selling in batches, worth between 140 and 1,267 dollars for honey, organizers majalah hai online they live hair, where they will settle this whole crowd of people. Of the 26,000 hotel rooms in the vicinity of Vancouver by half already booked