Editing Whistler Blackcomb (section)

===2010 Olympic Games===

For the 2010 Winter Olympics, Whistler hosted the [[Alpine skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics|alpine skiing]] events. The men's skiing took place on the [[Dave Murray (skier)|Dave Murray]] Downhill course, while women's skiing took place on a new course, which started on Wild Card, cut across Jimmy's Joker to Franz's Run and connected at the bottom of the Dave Murray Downhill. In order to serve the spectators and judges who needed to travel only to the timing area a short distance above the Creekside base, a temporary high-speed quad was built by Doppelmayr, known as the Timing Flats Express, in the Creekside base. This alleviated demand on the Creekside Gondola and other lifts that served the starting areas, much higher up the mountain. After the Olympics, it was dismantled and sold to [[Sunshine Village]], Alberta and replaced the Strawberry chair.

In preparation for the Games, [[Google Maps]] launched a [[Google Street View in Canada|Google Maps Street View]] partnership with Whistler to map out the various Olympic venues and many of the ski runs there. The imagery was taken with cameras mounted on the back of snowmobiles and included panoramas from the Dave Murray Downhill run to the peak of Whistler and to the top of 7th Heaven.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://maps.googleblog.com/2010/02/street-view-hits-slopes-at-whistler.html | title = Google Lat Long: Street View hits slopes at Whistler | date = February 9, 2010 | access-date = February 25, 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/google-street-view-expands-across-canada-1.888577 | title = Google Street View expands across Canada | publisher = CBC | date = Feb 9, 2010| access-date = February 25, 2023}}</ref>

Blackcomb hosted the [[Bobsleigh at the 2010 Winter Olympics|bobsled]], [[Luge at the 2010 Winter Olympics|luge]] and [[Skeleton at the 2010 Winter Olympics|skeleton]] events at [[The Whistler Sliding Centre]]. [[Whistler Olympic Park]] hosted Olympic and Paralympic [[Biathlon at the 2010 Winter Olympics|biathlon]], [[Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics|cross-country skiing]], [[Nordic combined at the 2010 Winter Olympics|Nordic combined]] and [[Ski jumping at the 2010 Winter Olympics|ski jumping]], some distance to the south of the Creekside area in the [[Callaghan Valley]].

The British Columbia government paid $600 million for major upgrades to the [[British Columbia Highway 99|Sea-to-Sky Highway]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/seatosky/documents/2004/Capital_Project_Plan_011504.pdf |title=Microsoft Word - S2S Capital Project Plan-3.doc |access-date=March 10, 2011 |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611190339/http://www.th.gov.bc.ca/seatosky/documents/2004/Capital_Project_Plan_011504.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> which carried the majority of visitors to the alpine sites.

Notable accomplishments for Whistler athletes in the 2010 Olympic Games:
[[Ashleigh McIvor]] won the first gold ever in Ski Cross, an inaugural Olympic event;
Maëlle Ricker won gold in Snowboard Cross;
Siblings Mike and Britt Janyk competed in alpine skiing events on the mountain they grew up skiing;
Ski cross athlete Julia Murray, daughter of Dave Murray, competed in her first of likely many Olympic Games.