Was Vancouver a success?
Tuesday March 23, 2010 - Email this article to a friend

It makes interesting reading. If you like that sort of thing.

There were events in 15 sports at 9 competition venues with 615 medals awarded and 1,055 athlete bouquets presented.

6,500 athletes and team officials attended from 82 participating National Olympic Committees with 2,632 actual registered athletes.

There were 50,000 workers, including paid staff, contractors and the 18,500 volunteers.

Some 6,500 volunteers have also worked during the Paralympic  Games.

96,409 got tickets for the Games with a 3.5 billion worldwide television viewers estimate.

There were 10,800 official media representatives: 7,000 rights holding broadcasters; 2,800 press reporters, photographers and non-rights holding broadcasters; as well as 1,000 host Olympic Broadcast Services personnel.

Olympic rights holding broadcasters had coverage on more than 300 TV stations and on more than 100 websites worldwide.

There was, apparently, 47% more global TV coverage than for the Turin Games in 2006. That represents 24,000 hours of coverage.

More than 12,500 volunteer hours took part in the Olympic Closing Ceremony and they ranged in age from 10 to 68.

But for you real 'stat-watchers', perhaps the most interesting, mind boggling stats come from the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

There were 450 racks of costumes, 3,600 metres of elastic, 4,100 pairs of shoes, 18 kilograms of glitter, 10,000 green sequins, 200 giant spheres and balloons, as well as 20 zygote balls.

So there you have it; we'll be testing you on it later.

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