The 2010 Winter Paralympics, officially known as the X Paralympic Winter Games, are being held in Vancouver and Whistler, British Columbia, Canada from March 12 to March 21, 2010. The Opening Ceremony took place in BC Place Stadium in Vancouver, British Columbia.
2010 will be the second time Canada has hosted the Paralympic Games, following the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto.
On June 7, 2006, Prince Edward, as a member of the Canadian Royal Family and patron of the British Paralympic Association, raised the flag of the Paralympic Games outside Vancouver City Hall.
Brian McKeever of Canada became the first athlete to be named in a Winter Paralympics and Winter Olympics team in the same year, although he did not compete in the Olympic Games. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he was scheduled to compete in the men’s 50km cross-country race, but the coach replaced him with a skier who did well at an earlier event. At the Paralympics he is competing in Cross-country skiing and Biathlon.
Viviane Forest became the first para-athlete to win a gold in both the Winter and Summer Games, by winning the Women’s Downhill for Visually Impaired. She had previously won gold in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Paralympics for women’s goalball.
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