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Vancouver 2010
Paris, the 21^st of January 2010

All news about the first world sport event of the year already available at Maxppp.com in the Vancouver 2010 archive.

©Heinz Ruckemann/UPI/Maxppp (combo) ; 15/10/2009 Vancouver ; 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Medals Unveiled ; The Paralympic (LEFT) and Olympic (RIGHT) gold medals were displayed during the unveiling of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic medals at the Olympic and Paralympic Village in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

From February 12th to 28th, Vincent Defrasne will accompany the French delegation in Canada and carry the colors of France at the time of the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics 2010..

©Ma Dan/Photoshot/Maxppp ; 12/01/2010,Vancouver, Canada ; the interior of the Main Press Center(MPC) of Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The MPC will open on Jan. 29 ©Lionel Vadam/L'ALSACE/PHOTOPQR/Teamshoot/Maxppp ; 23/12/2009 Arcon ; Présentation des skieurs du comité du Massif Jurassien : Vincent Defrasne (Biathlon) ©Frank Rumpenhorst/DPA/Maxppp ; 28/10/2009 Vancouver, Canada ; The logo of the Olympic Winter Games 2010 on a column. The XXI Olympic Winter Games will take place in Vancouver, from 12 to 28 February 2010. Most of the competitions will be carried out in Whistler which lies approximately 125 kilometres north of Vancouver.

©Kyodo/Maxppp ; 28/12/2009 ; Nagano, Japan ; Veteran speed skater Tomomi Okazaki competes in the women's 500 meters in a qualifier for next Vancouver Games at the M-Wave ice arena. Okazaki finished second in the event, becoming the first Japanese female athlete to book a spot in the Olympics for a record fifth time. ©Kyodo/Maxppp ; 28/12/2009 ; Kadoma, Japan ; Mao Asada performs in an exhibition at Namihaya Dome in Osaka Prefecture, a day after winning the Japan national figure skating championships and clinching a berth for the Vancouver Olympics. ©Kyodo/Maxppp ; 30/12/2009 ; Nagano, Japan ; Teruhiro Sugimori skates to victory as he rewrote his own national record in winning the men's 1,500 in the final qualifying meet for next Vancouver Games with a time of 1:47.49 at Nagano's M-Wave ice arena. He booked his second straight berth at the Winter Olympics.

©Kyodo/Maxppp ; 12/01/2010, Vancouver, Canada ; The Olympic rings are lit up in front of the Main Media Center in Vancouver, one month before the opening of the Winter Games ©Hendrik Schmidt/DPA/Maxppp ; 15/01/2010 Oberhof, Germany ; Germany's Andre Florschuetz (L) and Torsten Wustlich (R) compete during the training of Luge World Cup event. The Luge World Cup event takes place on 16 and 17 January, four weeks ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games

©Kyodo/Maxppp ; 29/12/2009, Vancouver, Canada ; A girl wearing a hat featuring the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics mascot Quatchi shows off her red mittens bearing the Olympic logo and the Canadian maple leaf. More than 1 million pairs of the mittens had been sold by mid-December, with the proceeds going toward supporting Canadian athletes at the Games.

©Alexander Becher/DPA/Maxppp ; 18/11/2008, Vancouver, Canada ; View of the construction site at Richmond Olympic Oval in Vancouver. The ice speed skating races of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games will be held at Richmond Olympic Oval. ©Kyodo/Maxppp ; 10/01/2010, SAPPORO, Japan ; Japanese veteran Noriaki Kasai soars to victory in the STV Cup event on the K-120 Okurayama Hill in Sapporo. Kasai all but booked a spot for the Vancouver Olympics.

©Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/DPA/Maxppp ; 29/10/2009, Munich, Germany ; German alpine skiier Victoria Rebensburg (C) and ski jumper Martin Schmitt (L) present the official dress of the German Skiing Federation (DSV) to the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. ©Frank Rumpenhorst/DPA/Maxppp ; 27/10/2009, Vancouver, Canada ; A man carries ski in front of the nocturnal skyline of Vancouver. The XXI Olympic Winter Games will take place in Vancouver, Canada from 12 to 28 February 2010. Most of the competitions will be carried out in Whistler which lies approximately 125 kilometres north of Vancouver.

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