Chronological summary of the 2010 Winter Olympics
This page contains a chronological summary of major events from the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada.
Calendar
In the following calendar for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, each blue box represents an event competition, such as a qualification round, on that day. The yellow boxes represent days during which medal-awarding finals for a sport are held. The number in each box represents the number of finals that were contested on that day.[1]
OC |
Opening ceremony |
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Event competitions |
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Event finals |
EG |
Exhibition gala |
CC |
Closing ceremony |
Day 1 – February 12 (Opening ceremony)
- Death of Nodar Kumaritashvili
- Opening ceremony
- In front of 60,000 attendants, Governor General Michaëlle Jean declared the games officially open.[3] Performers at the ceremony included 300+ Cultural Dancers from First Nation, Inuit & Métis Communities from across Canada, Nelly Furtado, Bryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Nikki Yanofsky, k.d. lang and Garou. The Olympic Flame was lit by Catriona Le May Doan, Steve Nash, Nancy Greene, Rick Hansen and Wayne Gretzky.[4]
Day 2 – February 13
- Alpine skiing
- Due to poor weather conditions, the men's downhill is postponed until February 15.[5]
- Freestyle skiing
- Short track speed skating
- Biathlon
- Ski jumping
- Speed skating
Day 3 – February 14
- Biathlon
- Freestyle skiing
- Luge
- Nordic combined
- Speed skating
Day 4 – February 15
- Alpine skiing
- Cross-country
- Figure skating
- Snowboarding
- Speed skating
Day 5 – February 16
- Biathlon
- Luge
- Snowboarding
- Speed skating
Day 6 – February 17
- Alpine skiing
- Cross-country skiing
- Luge
- Short track
- Snowboarding
- Speed skating
- Shani Davis of the U.S. wins gold in 1000m becoming the first man to win this event twice. Mo Tae-Bum of South Korea and Chad Hedrick of the U.S. were paired together and won silver and bronze respectively, 0.38 seconds separated gold from bronze.[34]
Day 7 – February 18
- Alpine skiing
- Biathlon
- Figure skating
- Snowboarding
- Speed skating
Day 8 – February 19
- Cross-country skiing
- Norway's Marit Bjørgen wins her third medal (second gold) in Vancouver.
- Skeleton
- Despite complaints about possible aero-dynamic elements to her helmet, Amy Williams of Great Britain wins the women's skeleton. She is the first British athlete to win an individual Winter Olympic gold medal in thirty years.[38]
Day 9 – February 20
- Short track
- In the second semifinal of the women's 1500 m, China's Wang Meng, a strong contender for a medal, caused a crash and knocked out United States' Katherine Reutter and South Korea's Cho Ha-Ri who were in qualifying positions. Wang was disqualified due to impeding and Reutter and Cho were allowed to advance to the final resulting in a large 8-woman final.
- Ski jumping
- Speed skating
Day 10 – February 21
- Alpine skiing
- Bode Miller of the United States wins the men's combined earning his first Olympic gold. He was ranked 7th after the downhill event but jumped to gold with the 3rd fastest time in the slalom. Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway led after the downhill event but veered off-course in the slalom.[41]
- Biathlon
- Evgeny Ustyugov wins the men's mass start ending Russia's 16-year gold medal drought in this event.[42] He won in 35:35.7 and with no penalties. Despite incurring three penalties, Martin Fourcade of France captures the silver medal 10.5 seconds behind Ustyugov.
- Germany's Magdalena Neuner continues her strong performance in Vancouver earning her third medal, second gold.[43]
- Bobsleigh
- Germany's bobsleigh driver André Lange, with Kevin Kuske, won his fourth gold in four career races, taking the two-man competition to become the most successful pilot in Olympic history.[44]
- men's ski cross
- Switzerland's Michael Schmid takes the first gold medal in the inauguration of ski cross.[45]
- Ice Hockey
- The Canadian men's team are defeated by the Americans 5-3, forcing them into a more difficult path into the final rounds.[46]
- Speed Skating
- Although she won bronze in Turin, Ireen Wüst of Netherlands claims gold in the 1500 metres against expectations. It was the second at these games where the gold medal favorite in this distance had been defeated by a Dutch, Kristina Groves settled for silver as did Shani Davis who lost to Mark Tuitert on the men's side.[47]
Day 11 – February 22
- Figure skating
Day 12 – February 23
- Speed Skating
- Lee Seung-Hoon of South Korea skated to an Olympic record of 12:58.55 in the men's 10000 metres. In a bizarre twist, Sven Kramer of the Netherlands who beat Lee by over four seconds was disqualified when he failed to make a lane change, losing both the record and the gold medal.[49] Lee is the first Asian to medal in an Olympic 10000m speed skating event.
- Women's ski cross
- Canadian Ashleigh McIvor wins the gold medal in the first women's ski cross event at the Winter Olympics.[50]
- Nordic combined
Day 13 – February 24
- Alpine skiing
- The Women's Olympic Giant Slalom competition was originally scheduled for February 24, but the event was halted after the first run due to low clouds and poor visibility and rescheduled to 09:30 PST on February 25.[52]
- Short track
- Speed skating
- Czech Republic's Martina Sáblíková earns her third medal and second gold by winning the Women's 5000 metres. Skating in the last pairing, she started her race with the fastest 200m split, never relinquished her lead, and crossed the finish line just 0.48 seconds ahead of Germany's Stephanie Beckert. Sáblíková was so tired at the end of the race that she crumpled to the ice after slowly gliding to a standstill. She then had her coach take off her skates and started her victory lap in her socks.[55]
- Ice hockey
- Canada defeats Russia in a 7-3 win in Men's Ice Hockey and advances to the semi-finals against Slovakia.
Day 14 – February 25
- Ice hockey
- Canada defeats the United States 2-0 in the Gold Medal Game in Women's ice hockey.
- Figure skating
- South Korea's Kim Yu-Na wins the gold medal in the ladies' singles, setting a new world record of 150.06 points for the free skate and for the combined total of 228.56 points.[56] The United States fails to win a medal in this discipline for the first time since Innsbruck in 1964.
- Nordic combined
Day 15 – February 26
- Biathlon
- Norway's Ole Einar Bjørndalen anchors the Norwegian team to gold in the Men's relay. With 11 medals, he is now the second most successful Winter Olympic athlete in history. While Norway won gold by over 38 seconds, only 0.2 seconds separated silver won by Austria from bronze won by Russia.
- Curling
- Short track
Gold Medalists |
Sport |
Event |
Competitor(s) |
NOC |
Rec |
Ref |
Alpine skiing |
Women's slalom |
Maria Riesch |
Germany |
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Biathlon |
Men's relay |
Halvard Hanevold, Tarjei Bø, Emil Hegle Svendsen, Ole Einar Bjørndalen |
Norway |
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Curling |
Women's |
Kajsa Bergström, Anna Le Moine, Cathrine Lindahl, Eva Lund, Anette Norberg |
Sweden |
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Short track |
Men's 500 metres |
Charles Hamelin |
Canada |
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Women's 1000 metres |
Wang Meng |
China |
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Men's 5000 metre relay |
Guillaume Bastille, Charles Hamelin, François Hamelin, Olivier Jean, François-Louis Tremblay |
Canada |
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Snowboarding |
Women's parallel giant slalom |
Nicolien Sauerbreij |
Netherlands |
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Day 16 – February 27
- Bobsleigh
- The USA four-man bobsleigh team wins its first gold medal since 1948.
- Curling
- Canada defeats Norway 6-3 in the Gold Medal Game in men's curling.
- Cross-country skiing
- Poland's Justyna Kowalczyk becomes the first woman from her country ever to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in the 30K classical cross-country event.
Gold Medalists |
Sport |
Event |
Competitor(s) |
NOC |
Rec |
Ref |
Alpine skiing |
Men's slalom |
Giuliano Razzoli |
Italy |
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Bobsleigh |
Four-man |
Steve Holcomb, Steve Mesler, Curtis Tomasevicz, Justin Olsen |
United States |
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Cross-country skiing |
Women's 30 kilometre classical |
Justyna Kowalczyk |
Poland |
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Curling |
Men's |
Kevin Martin, John Morris, Marc Kennedy, Ben Hebert, Adam Enright |
Canada |
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Snowboarding |
Men's parallel giant slalom |
Jasey-Jay Anderson |
Canada |
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Speed Skating |
Men's Team pursuit |
Mathieu Giroux, Lucas Makowsky, Denny Morrison |
Canada |
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Ladies' Team pursuit |
Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, Stephanie Beckert, Anni Friesinger, Katrin Mattscherodt |
Germany |
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Day 17 – February 28
- Cross-country skiing
- Ice hockey
- Canada defeats the United States in overtime, 3-2, in the Gold Medal Game in men's ice hockey.[60] The U.S. goalie Ryan Miller is named MVP of the tournament.
- Medal count
- Canada ends the Olympics with 14 gold medals, the most for any country (host or otherwise) in any Winter Olympics. The U.S. ends with 37 total medals, also the most for any country (host or otherwise) in any Winter Olympics.
- Closing ceremony
- The closing ceremony took place at 5:30 Pacific Time (01:30 1 March UTC) at BC Place Stadium. In the Antwerp Ceremony, the Olympic flag was given to Mayor Anatoliy Pakhomov of Sochi, Russia, host of the 2014 Winter Olympics.
- Michael Bublé, Neil Young, Avril Lavigne, K-os, Nickelback, Simple Plan, Hedley, Marie-Mai and Alanis Morissette performed. William Shatner, Catherine O'Hara and Michael J. Fox also appeared.
See also
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