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Thrilling, exciting, amazing, wonderful, unforgettable, reckless and even hair-raising and nail-biting at times...All this we can say about the Olympic games held in Vancouver. Our newspaper's observer has been keeping a close watch on the situation there during 2 weeks in order to inform our readers as soon as it is possible.
It goes without saying that The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver has thrilled millions of people across the whole world. We've made a survey and managed to know that coverage from Vancouver reached nearly every corner of the globe, and demonstrated the power of digital media in sharing the Olympic values. We conviced that this breakthrough of The Games will be remembered as a landmark event in the emergence of mobile phones as a multi-media platform.
It must be mentiones that the seven winter Olympic sports that have been on show in Vancouver were luge, skiing, skating, ice hockey, biathlon, bobsleigh and curling.
A real sensation has become the victory of 20 Canadian hockey players. Some may call hockey the sport of Canada’s men, but these female players who fought their way to Olympic gold proved that hockey belongs just as much to the women. This news has just hit headlines world-wide and has become the-front page event in all newspapers but reading our newspaper you learn everything earlier as we try to keep our readers abreast of the latest events.
The forth day of the Olympic the men's downhill has taken place. United States skier Bode Miller had taken an early lead with a blisteringly quick time of 1:54.40, before Norway’s Aksel Lund Svindal moved into the gold medal position, pipping Miller’s time by just 0.02 seconds, but both were eclipsed by 32-year-old Swiss skier Defago, who hurtled down the Dave Murray Run in a spectacular time of 1:54.31. It was really a landslide victory. Our congratulations!
Another remarkable event has been on 27 February. Thtat day saw Canada and the USA produce a gold medal game in the men’s ice hockey that will go down in history from our point of view , as the hosts grabbed a dramatic overtime win thanks to star player Sidney Crosby.
Summing up, the Olympic 2010 has been really sensation and has become the main item of the news being the front-page headline far and wide.
This was our review on the current events. We'll keep you always informes as the news develops in the near future.