Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: All 1.6m Tickets Sold Out!

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics organizers say they expect all 1.6 million tickets to be sold out. Last time only 95 percent tickets were sold.

Tonight’s opening ceremonies of XXI Olympic Winter Games will be the first to be held indoors because of fog, snow and rain worries.

Some 55,000 spectators are expected to turn up at the BC Place Stadium. It has the largest air-supported dome in North America.

Canadians have declared their ambition is to win the most medals. They have invested $117 million in a program called “Own The Podium” to make that happen.

Four years ago in Turin, Canada finished third behind Germany and the U.S.

Activists are planning the first big protest of the Vancouver Olympic games to coincide with the opening ceremonies tonight.

Meanwhile, a coalition of activists is planning to demonstrate outside BC Place Stadium. They describe the Winter Olympics games as a “two-week circus,” and have called for “all anti-capitalist, indigenous, housing rights, labor, migrant justice, environmental, anti-war, community-loving, anti-poverty, civil libertarian, and anti-colonial activists to come together” and confront the event.

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