June 27, 2007

Ski jump transported to Whistler

VANCOUVER

From sea to sky, the progress on construction of the venues for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games continued last week as the Vancouver 2010 ski jump “Super Structure” made its way from the Lower Mainland to the Callaghan Valley via water and land.

The structure, constructed in Port Coquitlam, is made of numerous massive tubular steel trusses with some of the larger pieces measuring approximately 24 metres in length by eight metres in width.

“Delivery of the actual ski jump, especially through these unique transport modes, marks a significant milestone in the early completion of this sport venue for the 2010 Winter Games,” said Doug Ewing, project manager, Nordic venues for the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). “A tremendous amount of work has been done since construction of this venue began in April 2005, and we are on track to be ready for fall 2007.”

Oversized loads were transported by barge from Port Coquitlam to Squamish via the Fraser River and Howe Sound. Upon arriving in Squamish, the super structure was moved onto large trucks and transported, by escorted truck transport, along Highway 99, arriving at the Whistler Nordic Venue in the Callaghan Valley, elevation of 850-910 metres, during the early morning hours of Wednesday, June 20.

The Whistler Nordic Venue, situated in the Callaghan Valley, consists of three separate stadiums located within a two-square-kilometre area. The venue will be home to biathlon, cross-country skiing, Nordic combined and ski jumping during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, and biathlon and cross-country skiing during the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.

JOC News Service

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