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How Vancouver Winter Olympic Games added up
Olympic first: Continuing the TV trend, Vancouver’s opening ceremony, the first to be held indoors, was the most-watched television event ever in Canada with an average of 13.3 million viewers.
Medal breakers: The United States set a new record for the highest total of medals won at a single Olympic Winter Games with 37. Germany had set 36 at Salt Lake City in 2002.
Norway’s 100th: Tora Berger’s first Olympic gold medal in the women’s 15km individual event marked Norway’s 100th gold at a Winter Games, making them the first country to reach the landmark.
Oh yes for Ohno: American Apolo Anton Ohno became his country’s most decorated Winter Olympian at the Vancouver Games, surpassing speedskater Bonnie Blair. The bandana-clad short track skater is also the sport’s most successful athlete with eight medals.
Finnish flash: Finland’s Teemu Selanne became the all-time leading scorer in Olympic ice hockey at the Vancouver Games. The 39-year-old broke the record in a group game with Germany and was handed the puck as a memento. He has 20 goals and 17 assists during Olympic competition.
Dutch gold: Nicolien Sauerbreij’s gold medal in the women’s snowboarding parallel giant slalom handed the Netherlands a first Winter Olympics gold outside speedskating and figure skating. It also marked her country’s 100th gold medal in Summer and Winter Games.
Canadian curse: Freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau became the first Canadian to win Olympic Gold at home with victory in the men’s moguls, breaking a curse that had plagued both of their previous Games staged in Montreal (Summer 1976) and Calgary (Winter 1988).
Steady Germans: Germany were the only nation to win a medal in every day of competition at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
Cost: The Vancouver Games had an operating budget of C$1.75 billion. The figure does not include the C$900 million security budget, funded mostly by the Canadian federal government.
Visitors: Some 5,000 athletes and officials and 10,000 members of the media have descended on Vancouver and Whistler for the Games, as well as tens of thousands of spectators.
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