Olympics Vancouver 2010 - Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver was launched on February 12, 2010. After the Olympics in 1988 in Calgary it was the second Winter Olympics held on Canadian soil.

Vancouver into the final selection of organizing the Winter Olympics in 2010 got together with the South Korean city of Pyeongchang and Austria's Salzburg. Victory Canadian metropolis announced July 2, 2003 in Prague, President of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge. In the spring of the following year he joined Organizing Committee of the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver (VANOC). Its board of trustees counted with a budget of 1.7 billion Canadian dollars, the final climbed to 1.88 billion. According to the organizers, the game still ended up with no debt.

Most gold medals won organizing Canada. Athletes with a maple leaf emblem they won 14. The second ended with ten gold Germany. Third United States as well as Norway won nine gold medals. The location of the USA for bronze decided to acquire 15 pieces of silver, which was the highest in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

Games commented tragedy when even before their official launch was killed in a training Sankara Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili.

The place next Winter Olympics in 2014 were selected Russian resort of Sochi.