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This year is when the 21st First (XXI) Winter Olympic Games are taking place in Vancouver, Canada. Along with the Football World Cup this is going to be one of this year's most watched and most important international sporting events. Although most of the events that make up the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics will take place in this city a number will also be held in the resort of Whistler and the Vancouver Suburb of Richmond.

This year sees Canada being the hosts of this event for the third time and the opening ceremony takes place on Friday 12th February. Then following the opening ceremony the events will take place over the next 16 days. Then on the 28th February the closing ceremony will take place and the Olympic Torch will be passed to Russia who will be hosts of these games in 2014.

So what sorts of events will one expect to watch when the Winter Olympics are taking place during the coming weeks? This year there is a total of 15 winter sports events happening during the course of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and is divided up into three different categories.

Those events that are classified as being ice sports are the bobsled again this year a team from Jamaica will be participating in this event. Then there is the luge, the skeleton which we have high hopes for a medal in. At the previous winter Olympics held in Turin we saw a silver in this even won by Shelley Rudman. Plus also to take place as part of this group are ice hockey, figure, speed and short track speed skating along with the sport of curling.

Then the next group of events that will be taking place at this time are in the group known as the alpine skiing and snowboarding events. In here are not only alpine skiing and snowboarding but also freestyle skiing and snowboarding.

The final group of sports that will be taking place during these games are those classed as Nordic events. These are the likes of ski jumping, cross country skiing, the biathlon and Nordic Combined.

Nordic Combined of all the winter sports that are events in this year's Winter Olympics is the most demanding. As well as the participants having to complete a cross country skiing race they also have to participate in a ski jumping competition. How much time is allowed for competitors to rest between each part of this event varies. Sometimes they are only allowed 35 minutes rest whilst at other times they can get a few hours rest between each event.

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