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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: By the numbers – News Releases : Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics

February 28, 2010 · admin · Jump to comments

Vancouver, BC ? After 17 days of thrilling athletic competitions, amazing displays of sportsmanship and magical moments when lifelong dreams were finally realized on the podium, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games will draw to their official close tonight.

In looking back and celebrating the impact of Canada’s Games and the future of the Olympic Winter Games, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) would like to share some of the initial statistics available.

By the numbers: The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games

February 12 to 28, 2010

17 days of thrilling competition and athletic accomplishments
15 sport disciplines
9 competition venues
3 Olympic training facilities
86 medal competitions
86 Victory Ceremonies (16 in-venue medal presentations, 25 at BC Place and 45 at Whistler Medals Plaza)
615 medals awarded
1,055 athlete bouquets presented
82 participating National Olympic Committees (NOCs)
6,500 athletes and team officials in total
2,632 registered athletes
50,000 workforce members for the Games, including paid, contractor and volunteers
Of that total, 18,500 were volunteers; 6,500 volunteers will also work during the Paralympic Winter Games
25,000 workforce uniforms distributed
96,409 people accredited for the Games
10,800 media representatives: 7,000 rights holding broadcasters, 2,800 press reporters and photographers and non-rights holding broadcasters, as well as 1,000 host Olympic Broadcast Service (OBSV) personnel
3.5 billion worldwide television viewers are estimated to have tuned into the Games
Olympic rights holding broadcasters have offered Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games coverage on more than 300 TV stations and on more than 100 websites worldwide
47 per cent more global television coverage of the Games than for the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games
This represents approximately 24,000 hours of coverage
50,000 hours of total broadcast hours of the Games across all media platforms around the world
6,000 hours of coverage worldwide on mobile platforms
As of Day 15, 33.1 million Canadians (99 per cent) have watched coverage
27.7 million cumulative audience or CUME (meaning 82.7 per cent of Canadians) experienced the Games on February 27 through the platforms of Canada’s Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium.
1,500 appearances by the Vancouver 2010 mascots: Quatchi, Miga and Sumi by the end of the Games
20,567 deliveries made to Olympic venues
1.6 million tickets available for the 2010 Winter Games
More than 3.3 million pairs of Vancouver 2010 Red Mittens sold
$500-million target for gross retail sales of Vancouver 2010 branded merchandise met by end of Games
2.2 million people engaged to date by the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Oympiad, which will continue for three more weeks
More than 4,000 artists at 600 events, over 60 days in 60 venues are taking part in the Cultural Olympiad
More than 12,500 volunteer hours clocked for Olympic Closing Ceremony. The thousands of volunteer performers range in age from 10 to 68
More than 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 were used in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies
275 million visitors in total to www.vancouver2010.com, shattering the previous record of 105 million set during the Beijing 2008 Games
78 million total unique visitors to the site
A record of 9,185,306 unique visits in a single day ? set on February 24. The previous record set during the 2008 Summer Games was 8,797,614 on August 11, 2008
Vancouver2010.com was visited 85 million times this month from within Canada and reached more than 70 per cent of Canadians with Internet access and over 50 per cent of the total Canadian population
19.1 per cent of North Americans with Internet access visited the website this month
4.6 per cent of people worldwide with Internet access visited the site this month
14,000 followers on Twitter.com/2010Tweets
More than 1.25 million downloads recorded for the official mobile spectator guide, which for 10 days of the Games was the No. 1 free app in Canada
1.1 million Facebook fans, nearly four times the total amount for Beijing at the conclusion of the 2008 Games