Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Winter Games and Paralympic Games Bid

Between 1972 and 2000, the Olympics brought economically favorable impact on host cities with the benefits of improved infrastructure of the host city, increased employment and superior public image (Preuß 5). In 1984, Los Angeles announced the economic surplus for hosting the Olympic Games. The number of cities competing for subsequent bidding has increased since 1984. In consideration of these advantages, Vancouver is proactively promoting the bidding for the 2010 Winter Olympics. With the support of cities such as Ottawa, the British Columbia State Government, and Vancouver and Whistler, the Vancouver bidding committee spent 30 million dollars for bidding.

On January 19, 2005, Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) announced a new alliance with Bell Canada, one of the nation's leading telecommunications companies. This partnership created an investment of $ 2 million in the economic recovery in the eastern part of downtown Vancouver. "This investment is part of the major domestic partnership between Bell Canada and VANOC and VANOC to ensure opportunities for downtown Vancouver people to benefit from hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics and Winter Paralympic Games We support Vancouver's agreement efforts, "Investment is an existing economic revitalization plan designed to support the" Vancouver Agreement ".

The opening ceremony of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics was a subtle propaganda of Canada. The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics and the Winter Paralympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) have done a lot for the symbolic opening ceremony on soil. However, the main problem of the opening ceremony was that when the Canadian government respected the rights of indigenous peoples, when indigenous peoples were the most marginalized group in Canada, they left impressions in other countries of the world was.

The 2014 Winter Paralympics is the first Paralympic Games in Russia. Meanwhile, Russia ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Especially in Vancouver 2010, their Paralympic team won a medalist at the Winter Paralympics and their Olympic team was a much lower score than expected at the Winter Olympics. Despite paying more attention and funds to the Olympic athletes, the media emphasized the contrast between the achievement of the Olympic delegation and the Paralympic delegation. Since 2007, organizers of the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games in the Russian Federation worked hard to facilitate entry into the host city Sochi.