Venues of the 2010 Winter Olympics

For the 2010 Winter Olympics, a total of ten sports venues were used, seven in Vancouver (including BC Place), and three in Whistler.

Six non-competition venues, three each in Vancouver and Whistler, provided athlete housing, space for media, and locations for ceremonies associated with the Games.

Of the competition venues that the bid proposed for use during the Games, six required new construction, with the remainder already built in Vancouver and Whistler.

[7] On February 12, 2010, hours before the opening ceremony, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili suffered a fatal crash during a training run when he was thrown off his sled and collided with a steel pole.

Of the newly constructed venues for the Games, the Whistler Sliding Centre was the largest, with space for 12,000 spectators to observe the luge, skeleton and bobsled events.

A distant shot shows a large domed arena set in front of a city skyline.
BC Place Stadium hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Olympic sites map
Two snow-covered ski jumps, surrounded by evergreen trees.
Whistler Olympic Park ski jumps at Callaghan Valley
Front of a building bearing the words "Richmond Olympic Oval" and a picture of five interlocking rings.
The Richmond Olympic Oval
At least a dozen cranes rise over buildings under construction. In the foreground, cars are driving by on existing streets, and a city skyline rises in the background.
The Olympic Village being constructed on the southeastern shore of False Creek near downtown Vancouver