IOC announces Vancouver wins 2010 Olympic Winter Games (CBC) 

Best Winter Olympics for sure. Best Summer games will always be Sydney 2000.

Thanks Harper

Forbes did a survey of the best winter Olympic games and Lillehammer Norway was by far the best---Calgary actually finished ahead of Vancouver (by quite a large margin) and also made a profit--Vancouver barely broke even

Well sorry to disappoint you but for all the younger foes like me who weren't alive for those Olympic Games, Vancouver is the best one in my lifetime

david graham And why Lillehammer? Tonya Harding vs. Nancy Kerrigan, that's why (though in the end, Oksana Baiul outskated them all)!

Even way better than that stupid fifa world cup. It's worthless

because Norway is a winter sports obscessed country--there isn't a town or villiage there that doesn't have a ski jump/ski facility etc etc---the organization/atmosphere in Lillehammer in 1994 was far and ahead of anything before or since (including Vancouver-which couldn't even get the torch ceremony right)

But Toronto However won the bid for the Pan Am Games in 2015 at least still enjoyed it

More than Sochi，and Vancouver is a beautiful city that can bring you a good memory

just like the memory of Vancouver after they lost the Stanley Cup final to Boston at home in 2011--their behavior in the streets after that was absolutely pathetic and embarrassing to all of Canada

​@@bufnyfan1yes because a group of 200-300 "Fans" Makes a whole fa base/city & country look bad. Thinking that is just pathetic

"The games are coming back to canada"

SOMEDAY WE WILL WIN IT!

same

Beijing won tho :/

xTheOc good question

i mean they were pretty much part of it anyway

xTheOc it was a joint bid

Until Los Angeles hosts the Summer Olympics in 2028

Yes, David, that is what's important. Profit. Because that's what makes the olympics special for everyone right? I'm sure we can all look back on those 2010 games and remember that we didn't make a profit. Because thats what Canadians remember right? And can i ask you, how many gold medals, or Ice hockey championships do you remember us winning in Calgary? What "run" are you talking about? Vancouver 2010 was by far the best olypmpics Canada has ever participated in as well as hosted. That comment must have come out of your ass.

ThatBigCactus Tell us---did professional NHL players play in Calgary??? NO--were the games in Calgary opened to professionals?? NO---so don't compare "memories" between these two games---Forbes did a study on the most successful Winter games of all time----it was Lillehammer 1994 followed very closely by Calgary---Vancouver (no snow, no profit, transportation snafus etc) ranked right near the bottom

Thats all you needed to say David, Canada's best didn't even compete in Calgary. We didn't win ONE SINGLE gold medal. It was a failure. Not a success. No link to your beloved Forbes "study"? Are you sure it really exists? or are you realizing you're wrong? plus, one study doesn't make anything true anyways. So let's get this straight, your criteria for a "successful" winter games are -profit -snow -transportation Are you really so dense? "successful" only means that the IOC and its partner companies made a lot of money. For the other 99% of the world, we couldn't care less about profit. That's not what the olympics are about. Also, your logic is that, because professionals weren't allowed to compete in Calgary, we can't compare the memories? Do you have a brain tumour? No matter who was playing, the moments in Vancouver trump all of Calgary. I don't know where your massive Calgary bias comes from, but anyone with any small amout of rational knows Vancouver was the best.

ThatBigCactus You're the one whose "dense"--to explain it in a simple way even you can understand--I'm not talking about performance/gold medals---I'm talking about logistics/venues/organization/civic participation--and that's where Calgary far outperformed Vancouver--Vancouver didn't even have enough snow no less-they couldn't even get the flame lighting ceremony right--and even when this "joke" of a torch was lit the average tourist wasn't allowed to get near it for photos---I was at both games--Calgary civic pride was on display every day--they invented the idea of a downtown medal awarding area so the average person could watch-there were no traffic snafus and they held the opening and closing ceremonies in the open instead of some stupid domed stadium--the only person who thinks Vancouver was better I bet is only you--tell me were you in Calgary in 1988--if not (and I'm sure you weren't) then you have no business saying Vancouver was better--read the Forbes review of the best Winter Games---Vancouver is not on the list---Calgary is (2nd only to Lillehammer)

Can you send me a link to the study? I'd like to read it but can't find it...

He was an orthopedic surgeon

*_Yes, and in MY NAKED EYES, that's 1 thing that makes me hate the Olympics (I used to love it). To the IOC, 2nd & 3rd place means nothing. There may as well not even BE silver or bronze medals, as far as they're concerned. I ROLL MY NAKED EYES AT THE OLYMPICS_*

What's so bad about Vancouver?