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Vancouver Olympic Winter Games by numbers

By Lei Lei (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-03-01 14:01
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- 17 days of thrilling competition and athletic accomplishments

- 15 sport disciplines

- 9 competition venues

- 3 Olympic training facilities

- 86 medal competitions

- 86 Victory Ceremonies (16 in-venue medal presentations, 25 at BC Place

and 45 at Whistler Medals Plaza)

- 615 medals awarded

- 1,055 athlete bouquets presented

- 82 participating National Olympic Committees (NOCs)

- 6,500 athletes and team officials in total

- 2,632 registered athletes

- 50,000 workforce members for the Games, including paid, contractor and

volunteers

- Of that total, 18,500 were volunteers; 6,500 volunteers will also work

during the Paralympic Winter Games

- 25,000 workforce uniforms distributed

- 96,409 people accredited for the Games

- 10,800 media representatives: 7,000 rights holding broadcasters, 2,800

press reporters and photographers and non-rights holding broadcasters,

as well as 1,000 host Olympic Broadcast Service (OBSV) personnel

- 3.5 billion worldwide television viewers are estimated to have tuned

into the Games

- Olympic rights holding broadcasters have offered Vancouver 2010 Winter

Olympic Games coverage on more than 300 TV stations and on more than

100 websites worldwide

- 47 per cent more global television coverage of the Games than for the

Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games

- This represents approximately 24,000 hours of coverage

- 50,000 hours of total broadcast hours of the Games across all media

platforms around the world

- 6,000 hours of coverage worldwide on mobile platforms

- As of Day 15, 33.1 million Canadians (99 per cent) have watched

coverage

- 27.7 million cumulative audience or CUME (meaning 82.7 per cent of

Canadians) experienced the Games on February 27 through the platforms

of Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.

- 1,500 appearances by the Vancouver 2010 mascots: Quatchi, Miga and

Sumi by the end of the Games

- 20,567 deliveries made to Olympic venues

- 1.6 million tickets available for the 2010 Winter Games

- More than 3.3 million pairs of Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens sold

- $500-million target for gross retail sales of Vancouver 2010 branded

merchandise met by end of Games

- 2.2 million people engaged to date by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural

Oympiad, which will continue for three more weeks

- More than 4,000 artists at 600 events, over 60 days in 60 venues are

taking part in the Cultural Olympiad

- More than 12,500 volunteer hours clocked for Olympic Closing Ceremony.

The thousands of volunteer performers range 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

- 275 million visitors in total to www.vancouver2010.com, shattering the

previous record of 105 million set during the Beijing 2008 Games

- 78 million total unique visitors to the site

- A record of 9,185,306 unique visits in a single day -- set on February

24. The previous record set during the 2008 Summer Games was 8,797,614

on August 11, 2008

- Vancouver2010.com was visited 85 million times this month from within

Canada and reached more than 70 per cent of Canadians with Internet

access and over 50 per cent of the total Canadian population

- 19.1 per cent of North Americans with Internet access visited the

website this month

- 4.6 per cent of people worldwide with Internet access visited the site

this month

- 14,000 followers on Twitter.com/2010Tweets

- More than 1.25 million downloads recorded for the official mobile

spectator guide, which for 10 days of the Games was the No. 1 free app

in Canada

- 1.1 million Facebook fans, nearly four times the total amount for

Beijing at the conclusion of the 2008 Games.