Vancouver 2010

Vancouver was selected as the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics in a vote this week by the International Olympic Committee, defeating Pyeongchang, South Korea, and Salzburg, Austria to bring the Olympics to Canada for the third time.

Some say that the selection of Vancouver might hinder New York City's chances of playing host to the 2012 Summer Olympics. There has long been speculation that the International Olympic Committee could be reluctant to award the Games twice in a row to a North American city, although it did so in four consecutive Olympiads (Montreal in 1976, Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, Los Angeles in 1984 and Calgary, Alberta, in 1988), and in 1932 both the Winter (Lake Placid) and Summer (Los Angeles) Games were held in the United States.

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