11 Days

The events of the 2010 Winter Olympics will be held at eleven different venues throughout Vancouver and Whistler Mountain: B.C. Place Stadium (Opening and Closing Ceremonies), Canada Hockey Place/GM Place (ice hockey), Vancouver Olympic/Paralympics Centre (curling), Pacific Coliseum (figure skating and short track speed skating), UBC Thunderbird Arena (ice hockey), Whistler Celebration Site (victory ceremonies and performances), Whistler Sliding Centre (bobsled, luge and skeleton), Whistler Creekside (alpine skiing), Whistler Olympic Park / Whistler Paralympics Park (cross country skiing, biathlon, Nordic combined and ski jumping), Richmond Oval (speed skating) and Cypress Mountain (freestyle skiing and snowboard).

Marjo Matikainen is a Finnish cross country skier who won the bronze medal in 1984 in the relay and two bronze medals and the gold in 1988 in Calgary. Eleven years after retiring, she went on to become a member of the European Parliament.