Snowboarding Event

Snowboarding 2010 winter Olympics

The snowboard used in snowboarding sports resembles a wide sky that has the ability to glide on the snow. People making use of such equipments are called snowboarders. Those who are commercial snow boarders, make use of extra equipments like special boats and bindings that help to secure feet of the snowboarder. These methods are very conveniently made use of by the commercials in hill resorts, ski hills for competitive, leisurely and entertainment purposes. The original snowboard was invented in the year 1965, by Sherman Poppen and he was termed to be a Snurfer. The state of Utah claimed that snowboarding was first invented and manufactured in the early 1970s.

The event was commemorated in the year 2007, by United States mint amongst the 3 semi final designs belonging to the Utah head quarter. The selling snowboarding equipment in the year 2008, rolled up to be $487 million industry. The Snowboard ran up to about $540 including the bindings, board, and boots.

Venue:

The snowboarding competition Vancouver 2010 will be held at the Cypress Mountains. The event will be held between 15th and 27th of February 2010. The Cypress Mountains is about a 30 minutes drive from the Downtown Vancouver. The alpine venue features the most vertical plunge, most topography and majority of the lifts on Vancouver’s North Shore mountains. The snowboard and the ski cross course length is about1, 135 meters along with a vertical drop of about 208 meters. The ski cross, snowboarding and the parallel giant salom courses are constructed by White Industries Ltd which is led by the professional course builders. It requires a total of 510 volunteers to maintain courses stated below:

• Ski cross
• snowboard cross
• parallel giant slalom
• moguls
• aerials

The Cypress Mountains receive huge amounts of snow fall and at times are greeted by sunny weather.

Schedule: the snowboard events at the Olympics include the following

• On 15th of February 2010, starts the Snowboard Cross Men qualifying phase from 10.30 to 12.50.
• The finals for snowboard cross men from 14.00 hours to 15.00 hours.
• On 16th February 2010 starts the qualifying event of Snowboard Cross Women from 10.00 to 11.40
• The snowboard cross women’s final from starts from 12.15 to 12.50 the very same day
• On 17th February 2010 starts the qualifying round for halfpipe men from 13.05 to 15.45
• On the very same day starts another qualifying round from17.15 hours to 18.15 hours
• The finals for halfpipe men from 19.15 hours to 20.15 hour
• On 18th February 2010, starts the qualifying round for halfpipe women from 12.30 to 14.05 hours
• The qualifying round for halfpipe women from 16.00m hours to 17.00 hours
• The finals for halfpipe women begins from 18.00 till 19.00 hours
• On 26th February 2010 starts the final of parallel giant Slalom women from 12.15 to 13.45 hour
• On 27th February 2010 starts the finals for parallel giant slalom for men from 12.15 to 13.45

Competitor Names:

Some of the most able snowboarders all round the world are gathering up for the competition at the snowboard competition to be held at the Cypress Mountains. Participants from different parts of the world are gearing up to watch the spectacular acrobatic twists, jumps, tricks inside the ramp or cylinder shaped snow tube. People are eager to watch the participants racing against each other over the terrain. The fastest snowboarders from each of the heat move on to the next round.

Accommodation:

With the widest North shore’s largest vertical terrain, Vancouver’s premier playground is in the Cypress Mountains, you get spectacular views of the Howe Sound, Georgia Straight, downtown Vancouver and English Bay and enjoy the thirty four downhill runs all along the day and night. The Inn Hotel & Suites North Vancouver situated closely between the Pacific Coliseum and the Cypress Mountain is poised uniquely for accommodating visitors, teams, staffs, to Vancouver as the countdown for 2010 Snowboarding Winter Olympic Games continues.

Tickets:

For the tickets of Snowboarding 2010 winter Olympics, you need to visit the ticket box office situated very near the venue entrance. The spectators with ‘A’ grade category are reserved for grandstand sitting. Spectators with “B’’ category tickets are entitled for the general admission standing.