Towards Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic games

Environment Canada’s Experimental Numerical Weather Prediction Systems for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

O n 2 July 2003, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Canada with the rights to host the 2010 Winter Games. The XXI Olympic and X Paralympic Winter Games took place from 12 to 28 February and from 12 to 21 March 2010, respectively, in the Vancouver, British Columbia, and Whistler, British Columbia, areas. The 2010 Winter Games showcased the highest-level competition at five indoor ...

The importance of sports medicine for the Vancouver Olympic Games.

I remember Turin well. As the head doctor for Norway I witnessed our best alpine skier injure his knee at the very first vertical in the downhill race. The injury probably prevented him from winning a medal that day. However, he managed to recover incredibly fast and won the Gold medal in Super-G 1 week later. Many have not been as lucky as this! In the current edition of IPHP, Flørenes et al d...

Drug analysis at the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary.

A comprehensive drug testing program was carried out during the 16 days of the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, Canada. State-of-the-art technology was applied, involving high-resolution gas chromatography, high-performance liquid chromatography, gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, fluorescence polarization immunoassay, and radioimmunoassay. Samples from selected athletes were screened f...

Local development and the Olympic Winter Games’ legacy

Effects of Jump Difficulty on the Final Performance in Snowboard-Slopestyle-Winter Olympic Games, Socchi 2014

Background. Despite the increasing popularity of the snowboard, there is not scientific literature for sport performance indicators in this sport. Objectives. To analyze the effects of jump difficulty on the final performance during snowboarding-slopestyle competition. Methods. All competition sequences (n=214) from the 2014 Winter Olympic Games were analyzed. Of these, 123 were from the...