Organisers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which ended on Sunday, are confident of avoiding a budget deficit when the final bills are paid.

Organizers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and Paralympics, which ended on Sunday, are confident of avoiding a budget deficit when the final bills are paid.

* Keeping balanced budget will use IOC funding

CBC.ca

Paralympics come to a rousing close Toronto Sun … downtown Vancouver were extinguished but fireworks and floodlights lit up the sky above the mountainside resort to end Vancouver's Winter Games period. … GB boss makes Winter Games pledgeBBC Sport Greatest Games ever for Canada's stoic Ice QueenMontreal Gazette Final Act for Vancouver Winter Sports FestivalAround the Rings (subscription) CTV.ca -Canada’s New Government (press release) -Edmonton Journal all 852 news articles »

US Olympic snowboard 'jeans' pants for the masses USA Today … is pushing out," White says of the uniform, which he considers even edgier than the team outfit that Burton made for the Winter Games four years ago. …

ParalympicsGB chief executive Phil Lane says the association will not forget winter sports, despite the focus on the 2012 London Paralympics.

WHISTLER, Canada -Fireworks will light the sky above this mountain village on Sunday night in a bright noisy finale to a winter games organisers say boosted the Paralympics to a new level. Read more…

Globe and Mail

Motivation easy to find for Dube, Davison Globe and Mail … perform their free program in the pairs figure skating competition Monday February 15, 2010 at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. … and more »

MADISON – While the actual Winter Olympics were under way in Vancouver, the preschool classes at the Madison Area YMCA’s F.M. Kirby Children’s Center at 54 East St. celebrated with some Winter Olympic games of their own Friday, Feb. 19.

Fireworks will light the sky above this mountain village on Sunday night in a bright noisy finale to a winter games organisers say boosted the Paralympics to a new level.