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Vancouver 2010 Olympic Primer
February 1 2010
Coming up on February 12, the Vancouver area welcomes the 2010 Olympic Winter Games for 17 days of winter sports.
The games’ infrastructure is Vancouver City, Whistler Blackcomb, North America’s largest ski resort and the Richmond Olympic Oval, just south of Vancouver. Also, snowboard and freestyle skiing events will take place on Cypress Mountain.
To get there, first and foremost, U.S. citizens will need a passport or a passport card to travel to and from Canada.
Several companies are offering travel packages, with basic airfare and accommodations packages along with those that offer itineraries on the side, such as skiing and spa trips.
See 2010destinationplanner.com for more information in planning a last-minute trip to the games.
A search for flights turns up routes with one or two connections. Air Canada, which is in Logan Airport’s Terminal B and is the official airline of the event, has one connection in Montreal in a search for travel the day before the events begin. For those particularly adventurous, with Porter Air in Terminal E flying to Toronto, one could hop on the VIA Rail there to see Canada by rail on the way to the event in Vancouver.
Once on site there is no public parking at the Olympic venues and travel between Vancouver and Whistler or Cypress Mountain requires a ticket on the Olympic bus network.
Tickets to Olympic events have been available in phases to Canadian residents. For those outside Canada, the options are the fan-to-fan marketplace or official ticket auctions at vancouver2012.com/tickets. Another option is to go through the U.S. Olympic Committee’s official ticket agent, CoSport, an affiliate company of Jet Set Sports. All venue box offices will open on the first day of competition, but main box offices in downtown Vancouver and Whistler are now open. For more information, go to vancouver2010.com.
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