Warm Winter Olympics makes top 10 list of weather stories for 2010

Top 10 Canadian weather stories of 2010 has been released by environment Canada.The Winter Olympics in Vancouver had been targeted number # 1 in the list.

Environment Canada's Senior Climatologist David Phillips had selected saying the weather in Vancouver also "owned the podium", in addition to the athletes.

Earl, Igor and Tomas are the others several storms which Phillips also indicate on his list.

Vancouver Olympics render

According to the new government sponsored studies, Vancouver 2010 Winter Games not only brought home a heavy medal haul for Canada, it turned out to be a rousing financial success for Canada and British Columbia.

The studies revealed the Olympic and Paralympic Games released on Friday before the Vancouver Organizing Committee unveiled its final financial.

VANOC said, "$1.884 billion in operations resulted in neither surplus nor deficit, and that the $603-million venue development program also came in on budget"

The federal minister Gary Lunn said, "It is clear in these reports that hosting the 2010 Winter Games has created lasting legacies that will benefit Canadians for years to come".

B.C. Finance Minister Colin Hansen said, "We've always believed that the Games would provide the catalyst for economic, social, and athletic development provincially and nationally. These preliminary results are significant, and we know that when we measure 2010 fully, we'll see that British Columbia got an even more powerful economic lift from the Games, just when we needed it most."

Holcomb ready to shine home track in Bobsled

At the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Bobsled driver Steven Holcomb to compete at home for the first time since winning his historic gold medal, when the World Cup bobsled and skeleton circuit stops at the Utah Olympic Park in this week. He told the U.S. Bobsled and skeleton Federation website, “I know a few secrets there”. “I want to win there. I’d like to sweep the event if we can.”

Holcomb in the four man race had won Olympic gold and connected season opening World Cup race in that discipline two weeks ago on the Olympic course at Whistler. But he has an forced rival in Germany’s Manuel Machata, who already has won a two-man and a four-man race in his first season on the World Cup tour.

Fellow driver John Napier, he is forced to race for just the second time since returning from a tour of duty in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army. On Tuesday. Attorney Jason Schatz said Canada won’t issue visas to people with drunken driving convictions or pending charges.