2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics
Also called: XXI Olympic Winter Games, 2010 Winter Olympics
Games at Vancouver, Canada, where Kim Yu-na won the women’s figure skating with a world-record score.
Eighty-two nations took part from 12 to 28 February. On the day of the opening ceremony Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed in a training crash. Canada, which had won no gold at its two previous home Olympics, won 14, then a record for a single Winter Games, and beat the United States in overtime in the men’s ice-hockey final.
On 25 February Kim Yu-na won the women’s figure skating with a world-record total of 228.56, making Korea’s first Olympic figure-skating medal a gold. In speed skating Mo Tae-bum and Lee Sang-hwa won the men’s and women’s 500 m and Lee Seung-hoon the men’s 10,000 m, while short-track skater Lee Jung-su won the men’s 1000 m and 1500 m. South Korea finished fifth overall, its best ever, with six golds, six silvers and two bronzes.
