Some venues of Winter Olympics, including the Richmond Olympic Oval, are at sea level, a rarity for the Winter Games. The 2010 Games will also be the first—Winter or Summer—to have an Opening Ceremony held indoors. Vancouver, which will be the most populous city ever to hold the Winter Games, will also be the warmest: in February, when the Games will be held, Vancouver has an average temperature of 4.8 °C (40.6 °F).The opening and closing ceremonies will be held at BC Place Stadium, which has received over $150 million in major renovations. Competition venues in Greater Vancouver include the Pacific Coliseum, the Vancouver Olympic/Paralympics Centre, the UBC Winter Sports Centre, the Richmond Olympic Oval and Cypress Mountain.
GM Place will play host to ice hockey events, but because corporate sponsorship is not allowed for an Olympic venue, it will be renamed Canada Hockey Place for the duration of the games. Competition venues in Whistler include the Whistler Blackcomb ski resort, the Whistler Olympic Park and the Whistler Sliding Centre.The 2010 Winter Olympics will mark the first time since the National Hockey League (NHL) allowed its players to compete in Olympic Games (in 1998) that Olympics will be held in an NHL market. To avoid conflict between player commitments to their Olympic hockey squads and their NHL teams, the league will not hold games during the 2010 Olympic Games, and the season schedule has been compressed.In addition, Vancouver's NHL team, the Canucks, will be displaced from General Motors Place, their home arena.
The arena, temporarily renamed 'Canada Hockey Place' because the IOC does not allow corporate sponsorship for venues used in the Olympic Games, is planned to undergo some renovations in preparation for the games, including the removal of advertising from the ice surface and conversion of some seating to accommodate the media. As a result,
The flame arrives just in time for the Opening Ceremony.For the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the flame was lit in Olympia on October 22, 2009.It will then travel from Greece, over the North Pole to Canada's High Arctic and on to the West Coast and Vancouver. The relay will start its long Canada journey from the British Columbia capital of Victoria. In Canada, the torch will travel approximately 45,000 kilometers over 106 days, making it the longest relay route within one country in Olympic history. The Olympic Torch will be carried by approximately 12,000 Canadians.
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