Vancouver Olympics 2010 stats published
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games have published some numbers from the 17 days of the Games in February.
There were competitions in 15 sport disciplines at 9 competition venues with 615 medals awarded and 1,055 athlete bouquets presented.
6,500 athletes and team officials attended from 82 participating National Olympic Committees with 2,632 actual registered athletes.
There were 50,000 workforce members for the Games, including paid staff, contractors and 18,500 volunteers (6,500 volunteers have also worked during the Paralympic Winter Games).
96,409 got tickets for the Games with a 3.5 billion worldwide television viewers estimate.
There were 10,800 IOC-accredited media representatives: 7,000 rights holding broadcasters; 2,800 press reporters, photographers and non-rights holding broadcasters; as well as 1,000 host Olympic Broadcast Services personnel;
Olympic rights holding broadcasters have offered Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games coverage on more than 300 TV stations and on more than 100 websites worldwide;
There was 47 per cent more global television coverage of the Games than for the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games, representing approximately 24,000 hours of coverage;
More than 12,500 volunteer hours were clocked for the Olympic Closing Ceremony. The thousands of volunteer performers ranged in age from 10 to 68
More than 450 racks of costumes, 3,600 metres of elastic, 4,100 pairs of shoes, 18 kilograms of glitter, 10,000 green sequins, 200 giant spheres and balloons, as well as 20 zygote balls were used in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
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