The BBC Sport team studied replays before alerting the British Olympic Association and officials at curling's Vancouver Olympic Centre.

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And then, during these Games, I sat through long days and nights at the Vancouver Olympic Centre on the edge of my seat watching, first of all, the British women struggle to find any consistency.

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The dramatic 377-room Fairmont Pacific Rim Hotel (opened in 2010) is a big draw for business travellers due to its spectacular location on the water and across the street from the Vancouver Convention Centre.

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In one early example of how this may work, Marco Marra, a researcher at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, last year sequenced the genes from a tumor that had spread from an 80-year-old patient's tongue to his lungs.

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And in the past week, two groups of geneticists, one at the Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the other at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, have succeeded in sequencing the genomes of coronaviruses isolated from patients in Toronto and Asia.

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Vancouver has lost ground to Calgary, in Alberta, as a business centre.

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Christine Hitchcock, who works at the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulatory Research at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, worries that there is not enough research to show the long-term effects of the extended use of oral contraceptives on the breast.

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The city's annual summer festivals are not limited solely to the Bare Buns Run, and include Pride Week (early August), western Canada's largest gay pride parade, MusicFest Vancouver (two weeks early August), an international music festival that hosts a free city-centre outdoor stage, and the Bard on the Beach festival (June-September), which sees the work of Shakespeare performed beside the water in a cheerful series of red-and-white circus tents.

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