That includes supporting the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games and London 2012 Olympic Games.
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The Sochi hashtag is a reference to next February's Winter Olympics in Russia, where the 28-year-old hopes to defend her downhill gold from Vancouver 2010.
Going so far to suggest that, aside from when the US plays Canada in the Gold Medal game of an Olympics contested in North America (Salt Lake 2002 and Vancouver 2010), it may not be worth the logistical hassles for NHL players to play in the Olympics.
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"Our mission is to be the best in the world and we measure that by winning Olympic medals, " said Bill Marolt, since 1996 the chief executive of the USSA, whose athletes won 21 of 37 U.S. medals in Vancouver in 2010, compared with 10 of 25 in Torino in 2006.
The NHL began sending its players to the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, and continued through the 2010 Vancouver Games.
The women's competition begins Thursday, and Kostner is not even the favorite in what could be the toughest field assembled since the Vancouver Games in 2010.
"Part of the investment that Russia has made is not only what the world will see in Russia, but also they're building a winter paradise that they hope to showcase through the Olympic broadcast and attract tourism in the future, " says 2010 Vancouver champion Bill Demong, who competed at a Nordic combined skiing test event in Sochi last weekend.
The Cessna-185F floatplane nose-dived into the ocean near Vancouver Island in May 2010.
She is now considered one of Britain's best chances of a medal at the winter 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.
Vonn, who won the downhill gold in the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, is just three wins behind Annemarie Moser-Proll's record of 62 World Cup wins.
Vonn faces a race against time to be fit in time for the Winter Olympics in Sochi next year, where Maze is determined to add to the two silvers she won at the 2010 Games in Vancouver as she carries the hopes of her small nation.
We did the same tally during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, when Russia won the not-so-precious medal count.
He did it for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, and for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Double gold followed in the two and four-man teams in Turin four years later, with his fourth gold in the two-man in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver and a silver in the four-man.
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However, his early Olympic success in Turin, becoming the first American since Moe to claim a skiing gold, was not matched in the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver where he finished fifth behind teammate Miller in his super combined title defense.
But that was long before the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver turned White into a worldwide brand.
But just as most big oil sands projects get going, a serious labor crunch will hit, as construction jobs open for the 2010 Winter Olympics in nearby Vancouver.
White, who has multi-million endorsement deals with Kraft, Burton, Red Bull, Target, Oakley, Ubisoft, was one of the highest-earning athletes competing at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
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But it wasn't until the 2010 installment of the Games in Vancouver that Williams, who was born and raised by his West Indian mother in Canada, was spurred on to transform his pipe dream into a reality, as another pair of underdogs took on the establishment.
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The Olympic flag was then lowered and carried to the stage, where it was presented to the Sam Sullivan, mayor of Vancouver, the host city for the next Games in 2010.
Wagner was most affected by the loss of the third spot, missing the Vancouver Olympics because she finished third at the U.S. championships in 2010.
How high that bar is now set for the 2012 Summer Games in London will not be clear until the end of 2010, when the United Nations Environmental Programme is due to release a full assessment of the Vancouver games.
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