Hear it from the Pros
Vancouver2010.com caught up with some of the top athletes from every sport of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Hear them here! >>>
VANOC continues operational testing with bobsleigh, skeleton and luge sport events at The Whistler Sliding Centre Spectator interest expected to be high as athletes get to know new technical track
WHISTLER, BC– Interest will be high this week as a brand new sport is introduced to the sea to sky region when the best bobsleigh and skeleton athletes in the world will take to the track for the first of two World Cups to be held at The Whistler Sliding Centre. >>>
Testing successfully complete at bobsleigh and skeleton sport event. Sold-out crowd cheers on sliding athletes from around the world
WHISTLER, BC – The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) successfully completed its operational testing today at the bobsleigh and skeleton sport events at The Whistler Sliding Centre, which ran from February 5 to 7. >>>
The Whistler Sliding Centre wraps up World Cup events. Sliding sport events charm sold-out crowds, yield track records and produce top speeds
WHISTLER, BC – After four fantastic weeks of sliding action (including two World Cups and an International Training Week), The Whistler Sliding Centre wrapped up its World Cup hosting duties tonight with the men’s luge finals in the FIL Luge World Cup. >>>
Training at The Whistler Sliding Centre
At the close of this year's sliding season, 2,217 test and training runs were taken on the new Whistler Sliding Centre track. Taking the majority of these first runs was the Canadian bobsleigh, luge and skeleton teams, who really took advantage of the first Canadian Team Training Camps at The Whistler Sliding Centre. >>>
In Their Words: Mike Moffat
Representing Canada, Calgary’s Mike Moffat and his older brother Chris Moffat compete together in two-man luge. Shortly before the Torino 2006 Winter Games, Chris returned from a three-year hiatus from competing and joined Mike. The duo finished in ninth place. >>>
The Olympic dream – sliding past the odds
As children, many of us dream about becoming Olympic athletes, but how many of those dreams involve the sport of luge? Even still, how many of those dreamers envision reaching the world stage when their home country doesn’t have a training facility? That’s exactly what happened to British Olympian Mark Hatton, who, for many years, was the top ranking luger to come from a country without a track. >>>
