2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill
The ship was more than 10 km outside the shipping lane. It struck the reef late in the afternoon of 3 April, scraping along the reef for a considerable distance and creating the longest known grounding scar on the Great Barrier Reef. Tugs were sent to remove the ship which was feared would break apart in rough seas. Eventually, the vessel was refloated and taken to Hervey Bay. After unloading about a third of its cargo Shen Neng 1 was towed to Singapore. The ship's captain and officer-on-watch were both charged. The maximum fine for shipping companies that cause damage to the reef was increased after the incident.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Grounding incident
The 230-metre (750 ft) bulk carrier was en route to China from Gladstone, Queensland, when it sailed outside the shipping lane and ran aground on Douglas Shoal at around 17:00 on 3 April, 120 kilometres (75 mi) from Rockhampton and 70 km (43 mi) east of Great Keppel Island.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Grounding incident
One of the vessel's fuel tanks was damaged creating a narrow oil slick of heavy fuel oil 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) from Shen Neng 1: though initially estimated at up to 150 tonnes (147.6 long tons), on investigation, it was found that only 3 to 4 t (3.0 to 3.9 long tons) was lost. The slick was broken up using chemical dispersants: the 2-to-3-metre (6.6 to 9.8 ft) swell prevented the use of a boom to contain the oil.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Grounding incident
Maritime Safety Queensland was considering the possibility that the ship could break up, releasing another 800 t (790 long tons) of fuel oil. Two tugboats were sent out to help secure and stabilise Shen Neng 1, and a Queensland Maritime Police launch was placed on standby to rescue the 23 crew members if necessary. According to the Australian Maritime Safety Authority, Shen Neng 1 was supposed to be on a route between Douglas Shoal and the Capricorn Islands, but went aground 5.8 nmi (10.7 km; 6.7 mi) outside the shipping lane.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Damage
Shen Neng 1 created the largest grounding scar on the Great Barrier Reef known to date. The scar was roughly 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) long and 250 m (820 ft) wide. Some damaged areas have become completely devoid of marine life. There are concerns that there could be considerable long-term damage to the reef and it will be 10 to 20 years before the reef returns to the state it was in before the incident.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Damage
By 13 April 2010 oil tarballs were washing up on the beaches of North West Island, a significant bird rookery and turtle nesting colony.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
A preliminary MSQ investigation determined that the ship was 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) off course. MSQ spokesman Adam Nicholson called it "outrageous" that a ship would be that far off course, especially considering that it ended up in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that is subject to very stringent environmental restrictions. He likened the situation to a car veering off a two-mile-wide road. The location of the grounding means that the fuel may contaminate the Great Barrier Reef, specifically the area around Great Keppel Island and Shoalwater Bay. Conservationists, including the Australian Greens political party and the Capricorn Conservation Council, have questioned the lack of requirement to have pilots stationed aboard ships transiting the Barrier Reef.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh demanded that Commonwealth authorities "throw the book" at the ship's owner. Bligh said she considered even a minor oil spill "unacceptable", and claimed Shen Neng 1 had broken Australian law by even being in the area. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd visited the site on 5 April, and said that his government's main task at this point was to "bring to account those who are responsible" for threatening what he called Australia's greatest natural asset.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
He also promised to review shipping rules in the area, amid reports that many vessels frequently took shortcuts, or "rat runs", around the reef. However, only parts of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park are closed to commercial shipping, and while Douglas Shoal itself is not zoned for use by shipping, the passage between Douglas Shoal and the Capricorn Islands is in a zone that is free for use by shipping. Additionally, data from the Australian Maritime Safety Authority shows that the route between Douglas Shoal and the Capricorn Islands is known by AMSA to be used by the vast majority of vessels travelling between the North and Gladstone via the Coral Sea.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
The spill killed over 400 species of animals and over 500 species of plants. Rudd said the company could be fined up to A$5.5 million, while Bligh said the owner could be fined up to A$1 million. The master of the vessel is facing a fine of up to A$55,000 while the chief officer-on-watch is facing a fine of up to A$220,000 Anna Bligh raised the maximum penalty to A$10 million for shipping companies that cause damage to the reef by groundings.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
On 14 April 2010 Australian Federal Police officers executed a search warrant on the vessel and arrested the ship's master and chief officer-on-watch. They faced the Gladstone Magistrates Court on 15 April 2010. The ship's master was charged with liability for a vessel which caused damage to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and granted bail and allowed to leave Australia. The chief officer-on-watch was charged with the offence of being the person in charge of a vessel that caused damage to the park. He was granted bail on the condition that he reside on the carrier until a more permanent bail arrangement is reached.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
The vessel was refloated on 12 April by SVITZER Salvage with the assistance of AMSA Emergency Towage Vessels and anchored in waters near Great Keppel Island under instruction of Glastone Harbour Master. It was first thought that the ship would be taken to Gladstone to unload its cargo of 65,000 tonnes of coal. However Sheng Neng 1 was taken to the calmer waters of Hervey Bay because it was determined that the damage to the ship posed a risk of it breaking apart while passing through the Port of Gladstone.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
There was concern amongst conservationists that a leaky ship was brought into a whale sanctuary and Great Sandy Marine Park. The Department of Environment and Resource Management carried out seabed surveys before and after the ship was anchored in the waters off Hervey Bay for 10 days. It found there was no evidence of environmental harm. Clipper Mistral was berthed alongside the bulk carrier and using its own crane began removing 19,000 tonnes of coal on 12 May 2010.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
Over 1,200,000 litres of bunker fuel was removed from Sheng Neng 1 via barge and transported to the Port of Gladstone. The fuel contaminated with sea water was then transported to Transpacific holding tanks and later disposed. National Emergency Response Operations Manager Brett Williams said "this was a large volume of fuel that needed to be transported and disposed of". Transpacific trucks rolled around the clock to enable the fuel to reach its destination without delays.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
Beach clean-up and removal of oil from the North West Island commenced on 15 April 2010. The ship was connected to a tug for its journey to Singapore on 31 May 2010.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Response
In 2016, the Australian government settled with the ship's owners for $29 Million


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Investigation
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau released a preliminary report into the grounding of the ship on 15 April 2010. The report has found that the chief officer, who was officer-of-the-watch had neglected to program a proposed course change into the ship's GPS navigation system due to fatigue. The report stated, that the chief officer failed to plot the ship's position on the Nautical chart in appropriate intervals and for that reason was not aware of the proximity of the shoal. The Great Barrier Reef Vessel Traffic Service was not able to warn him due to limited coverage of the area by their systems.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Recommendation
In response to the Shen Neng grounding, the vessel tracking system known as REEFVTS was extended to the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef. Previously, the tracking system had run from the Torres Strait to just south of Mackay and did not cover the southern part of the reef.


2010 Great Barrier Reef oil spill, Remediation
Remediation efforts began in 2019 after a lengthy court process.


2010 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament
The 2010 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament took place from May 26–29. This was the first Great West Conference Baseball Tournament. All eight of the league's teams met in the round robin tournament held at University of Texas–Pan American's Edinburg Stadium in Edinburg, TX. Utah Valley won the championship by a score of 4-3. As the Great West is a new conference, the league does not have an automatic bid to the 2010 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.


2010 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament, Seeding and format
The league's eight teams were seeded by conference winning percentage, with head to head matchups used for tiebreakers. The teams were then divided into two pools with the winners of each pool meeting in a single elimination final.


2010 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament, Results
Northern Colorado advanced to the championship game by virtue of its head to head win over Texas–Pan American.


2010 Great West Conference Baseball Tournament, All-Tournament Team, Most Valuable Player
Chris Benson was named Tournament Most Valuable Player. Benson was an outfielder for Utah Valley.


2010 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2010 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 10–13, 2010 in Orem, UT. This will be the inaugural tournament for the league. Per NCAA regulations as a new Division I conference, the Great West champion will not receive an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament until 2020. However, the 2010 champion will receive an automatic bid to the 2010 CollegeInsider.com Tournament.


2010 Great West Conference Men's Basketball Tournament, Format
All seven conference members will qualify for the tournament with seeding based on standings from the regular season. The number 1 team will receive a first round bye.


2010 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election
The 2010 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election took place on 6 May 2010 to elect members of Great Yarmouth Borough Council in Norfolk, England. One third of the council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.


2010 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election, Background
Before the election the Conservatives held control of the council with 24 seats, compared to 15 for Labour. 14 seats were contested at the election with both the Conservative and Labour parties defending 7 seats. Claydon ward had 2 seats up for election after Labour councillor Dick Barker died in February 2010. Both the Conservative and Labour parties contested all 14 seats, while there were also 5 Liberal Democrats and 2 independent candidates.


2010 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election, Background
With the council election being held at the same time as the general election, local issues including the outer harbour, an additional river crossing and local regeneration, were mixed with national issues during the campaign.


2010 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election, Election result
The Conservatives remained in control of the council, with the political balance on the council staying the same. The Conservatives gained a seat in Caister South from Labour, but lost one back to Labour in Yarmouth North.


2010 Great Yarmouth Borough Council election, Election result
In Yarmouth North both candidates tied on 1,034 votes each after four recounts. As a result, a pack of playing cards was used to determine the result. The Conservative candidate, Bob Peck, drew a three and Labour's Charlie Marsden then drew a seven. Therefore, Labour were allocated one more vote and gained the seat from the Conservatives.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election
The 2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election was held on October 25, 2010 to elect a mayor and 12 city councillors in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. In addition, school trustees were elected to the Rainbow District School Board, Sudbury Catholic District School Board, Conseil scolaire de district du Grand Nord de l'Ontario and Conseil scolaire de district catholique du Nouvel-Ontario.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election
The election was held in conjunction with those held in other municipalities in the province of Ontario. For other elections, see 2010 Ontario municipal elections.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election
Candidate registration opened on January 4, 2010. Six candidates, including three incumbents and three challengers, submitted their nomination papers in the first week. The final registration deadline for candidates was September 10, 2010.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
One of the dominant issues in the election campaign was the status of the city's St. Joseph's Hospital. With the completion of the new Sudbury Regional Hospital facility, the closure of the St. Joseph's site was imminent — however, despite the city's longtime interest in acquiring the property due to its adjacency to Bell Park and Lake Ramsey, the Sisters of St. Joseph sold the site in 2010 to Panoramic Properties, a condominium developer from Niagara Falls. The campaign was subsequently marked by conflicting claims about how much notice the Sisters gave to city council, and how much time and money the city did or didn't have to prepare a counteroffer for the site; a community group, Save Bell Park, formed to lobby for the site's protection.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
Less dramatically, most voters identified road maintenance and property taxes as their other key priorities in the election. For the first time since the 2000 election, notably, the municipal amalgamation of the Regional Municipality of Sudbury into the current city of Greater Sudbury, which took place in 2000, did not register as a prominent election issue.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
The issue of retail store hours in the city also became an election issue when Marianne Matichuk supported allowing businesses to set their own hours without regulation from the city. If passed, this would include allowing stores in the city to open on Boxing Day for the first time; with labour unions being a prominent political force in the city, the issue of balancing the rights of retailers to set business hours against the rights of workers to holiday time at Christmas has been a persistent debate in Sudbury's municipal politics.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
The mayoral candidacy of David Popescu, a perennial candidate in the Sudbury area who was convicted of hate speech after advocating the execution of homosexuals in the 2008 federal election campaign, also emerged as a minor issue when he was permitted to participate in a mayoral debate sponsored by the Greater Sudbury Chamber of Commerce.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
Marianne Matichuk publicly criticized the Chamber of Commerce for not excluding Popescu from the debate, while candidate Derek Young called Matichuk's move a populist ploy that would both undermine the democratic process and distract from other issues in the debate, and the Chamber of Commerce reiterated that its standing policy when sponsoring political debates was to invite all registered candidates regardless of their personal views. Popescu had already participated in other mayoral debates during the 2010 election campaign without incident, and none of the candidates for mayor, including Matichuk, opted to boycott the Chamber of Commerce debate over Popescu's inclusion.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
On the final Friday of the election campaign, the Sudbury Star endorsed Matichuk for the mayor's chair. The following day, the paper published an article headlined "City misled public about manager's dismissal", alleging that Rodriguez and the incumbent council had deliberately lied to the public about the resignation of Alan Stephen, the former manager of the city's infrastructure and emergency services division, in 2006; however, the incident described in the article was one in which the city appeared to simply have followed its legal obligation to maintain confidentiality around matters involving employee relations.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Issues
The newspaper subsequently faced criticism for its portrayal of the story and for publishing the story only after it would be too late for Rodriguez or any other member of the city's staff to respond ahead of election day; in an interview on CBC Northern Ontario's Points North following the election, Sudbury Star managing editor Brian MacLeod stated that the paper had received the information in an anonymous brown envelope several days before the story went to print. The Ontario Provincial Police subsequently announced that they were conducting an investigation into the leak.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Polling
Although incumbent mayor John Rodriguez faced significant criticism of his first term as mayor, an Oraclepoll Research survey released on October 13, 2010, twelve days before the election, suggested that he remained in the lead with 41.6 per cent of decided voters; however, this represented a drop of 10.2 per cent from his winning margin in the 2006 election. Matichuk, a political neophyte who was virtually unknown before announcing her campaign in early September, was in second place with 31.5 per cent support, while councillor Ted Callaghan had 22.7 per cent support. All of the other candidates combined had a total of 4.1 per cent support; notably, the poll did not register a single decided voter for either Popescu or Ed Pokonzie.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Polling
A subsequent CTV Northern Ontario poll, released in the final week of the campaign, showed significant tightening of the race, with 32 per cent support for Rodriguez, 28 per cent for Matichuk and 18 per cent for Callaghan, with 21 per cent undecided.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results
Although Rodriguez and incumbent councillor Ted Callaghan were defeated for the mayoralty, all incumbent councillors who ran for council seats were re-elected. Of the three open seats on city council, only one was won by a political newcomer; the other two were won by former mayors of two of the city's pre-amalgamation suburbs.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Mayor
EastLink manager Marc Serré, the son of former federal Member of Parliament Gaetan Serré, also filed nomination papers, but withdrew from the mayoral race in the final week of nominations.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Ward 1
Incumbent councillor Joe Cimino was one of two councillors who had no opposing candidates file by the close of nominations on September 10.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Ward 5
Incumbent councillor Ron Dupuis was one of two councillors who had no opposing candidates file by the close of nominations on September 10.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Ward 7
Incumbent councillor Russ Thompson did not seek re-election. The winning candidate, Dave Kilgour, is a former mayor of Capreol.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Ward 10
Incumbent councillor Frances Caldarelli was re-elected by just five votes over challenger Fern Cormier, in a race with 175 rejected ballots. Cormier asked for a recount, a position which Caldarelli also endorsed; however, Cormier subsequently withdrew his request after learning that the province's municipal elections law requires recounts to be conducted by the same process as the original count, and does not allow for manual inspection of ballots that were rejected by the voting machines.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Ward 10
Former city councillor Mila Wong also registered as a candidate, but withdrew from the race.


2010 Greater Sudbury municipal election, Council results, Ward 11
Incumbent councillor Janet Gasparini did not run for re-election. The winning candidate, Terry Kett, is a former mayor of Walden.


2010 Greek Ice Hockey Championship season
The 2010 Greek Ice Hockey Championship season was the ninth season of the Greek Ice Hockey Championship. Nine teams participated in the league, and Iptameni Pagodromoi Athen won their sixth league title.


2010 Greek local elections
The 2010 Greek local elections were held on 7 November 2010 (first round) and 14 November 2010 (second round) to elect representatives to Greece's restructured local authorities, comprising 13 regions and 325 municipalities.


2010 Greek local elections, Background
Traditionally, candidates at local elections do not run under the official name of any party as the constitution only foresees the participation of electoral lists (or "combinations") and not parties. Despite this theoretical independence and distinction, for all practical purposes most candidates run as local front organisations for political parties.


2010 Greek local elections, Background
The election also comes at a time of increasing unrest in Greece following numerous bombs being sent to foreign embassies, as well protests against austerity measures forced by the EU and IMF in order for Greece to receive external financial support.


2010 Greek local elections, Issues
With the economy being touted as the mandate sought in the election Prime Minister George Papandreou said he would dissolve the national parliament should the candidates of his Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) fail to win an unspecified threshold. "Citizens will decide in today's election if we will hold steady on the path of salvation... or if we will go back to decay and to the Greece of bankruptcy."


2010 Greek local elections, Election results, Major municipalities
In the municipalities, as well as the regions, any candidate can participate in the 1st round. If the leading candidate doesn't have the required 50%+1 of the votes, then a second round is held between the two leading candidates of the 1st round.


2010 Greek local elections, Election results, Regions, Attica
Notes:† Ioannis Dimaras was elected a parliament member with Panhellenic Socialist Movement in the National Elections of 2009.


2010 Greek local elections, Election results, Regions, Attica
§ Alexios Mitropoulos is a member of the National Council of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement.


2010 Greek local elections, Election results, Regions, Attica
‡ Alekos Alavanos is a prominent member of the Coalition of Radical Left, and although his party didn't support him officially, some fractions such as KOE, DEA and KEDA did.


2010 Greek local elections, Election results, Regions, Crete
Notes:† Dimitrios Giannoulakis was independent at the time of the elections, but was supported by Dora Bakoyannis and is closely related to her newly founded Democratic Alliance party


2010 Greek local elections, Reaction
The government saw its share of vote drop by 9% but it remained the largest party. Prime Minister George Papandreou said that he would continue with tough austerity measures to alleviate Greece's debt burden following a narrow victory in the election.


2010 Greek presidential election
An indirect presidential election was held in Greece on 3 February 2010. Incumbent President Karolos Papoulias was nominated by the ruling PASOK party (160 seats) and secured the support of the main opposition party, New Democracy (91 seats), as well as that of the smaller LAOS (15 seats). Papoulias stood unopposed and was elected on the first ballot, with 266 votes.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike
The 2010 Greek truck driver's strike was carried out in Greece by the truck driving industry to protest against the austerity measures set out by the Greek government. It began on July 26, 2010 with over thirty-three thousand Greek truck drivers going on strike, and ended on August 1, 2010. This campaign was part of a larger national protest against the Greek government’s austerity measures, which also included raising taxes and cutting public spending.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Background
Greek economic downturn became apparent in 2009 due to several different reasons, including structural weaknesses within the Greek economy and repercussions of the Great Recession. This downturn continued into 2010, causing the Greek Parliament to pass the Economic Recovery Bill on March 5, 2010. An important part of these austerity measures was the decision to open up many professions that were currently closed, such as pharmacists, architects, and truck drivers.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Background
The Greek government developed a draft bill that would open up the truck driving industry to more competition, which would allow them to issue new licenses and revoke the industry’s previous system of licensing drivers. Many Greek truck drivers had taken out loans to pay for their license to own and operate trucks (up to $275,000) and the new austerity measures would cause these licenses to be worthless within three years. There was a widespread belief that this new system was unfair, and would devalue the truck driver’s initial investment.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Timeline
On July 26, 2010, thirty-three thousand truck drivers went on strike to protect their status quo and essentially keep their industry closed. They began the strike by refusing to drive and lining their trucks along the sides of roads all throughout Greece. By the second day of the strike, 80% of Greek gas stations had run out of fuel.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Timeline
On July 28, the third day of the strike, the Greek government issued an emergency order informing the striking truck drivers that they must return to work by Thursday July 29, or risk losing their truck driving licenses. The union ignored this order, and continued the strike.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Timeline
On July 29, approximately five hundred of the truck drivers participated in a demonstration in which they blocked two roads outside of the transport ministry. Their protesting led to a clash with riot police, who eventually used tear gas to disperse the rioters. Concern began to grow over how the strike was affecting the country, with newspaper reports reviewing how the strike has negatively affected tourism. There also was growing concern due to shortages of food, fuel, and medical supplies, which caused the Greek government to call in military support in order to supply fuel to hospitals, airports, and power stations.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Timeline
On July 31, strikers and police clashed as strikers attempted to prevent a government fuel truck from leaving an oil refinery. The union leader George Tzortzatos reportedly stated that they would not end the strike, stating "We continue the strike… We will not hold a funeral for our licences, we will fight with all our might to protect our property."


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Timeline
On August 1, six days after the walkout, the strike came to an end. Due to the government threats of criminal prosecution and loss of license for striking truckers, truck drivers voted by a narrow majority to end the strike.


2010 Greek truck driver's strike, Conclusion
The government did not make any concessions to the truck drivers, as economists agreed that opening the truck driving industry would be beneficial in allowing the country to recover from its economic failures. The strike had a large effect on the tourism industry- thousands of tourists were stranded in Greece, hundreds of tourist reservations were canceled, rental cars were abandoned due to no fuel, with media outlets reporting that tourists had purchased fuel on the black market at three times the rate of the regular price. The strike also damaged the peach industry within Greece, as more than twelve peach canneries were forced to close due to the lack of fuel.


2010 Green Bay Blizzard season
The 2010 Green Bay Blizzard season was the team's eighth season as a football franchise and first in the Indoor Football League. One of twenty-five teams competing in the IFL for the 2010 season, the Blizzard were members of the Central North Division of the United Conference. The team played their home games at the Resch Center in the Green Bay suburb of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin.


2010 Green Bay Blizzard season, Roster
Rookies in italics updated June 26, 201019 Active, 0 Inactive, 0 PS


2010 Green Bay Packers season
The 2010 Green Bay Packers season was the 92nd season overall and their 90th season in the National Football League. Although they finished with only a respectable 10–6 record, good for a second-place finish in the NFC North, the Packers never lost a game by more than four points, and never trailed by more than seven the entire season, becoming the only team since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970 to accomplish this. All six of their regular season losses were by a combined 20 points. They entered the playoffs as the NFC's sixth seed.


2010 Green Bay Packers season
After defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 21–16 in the Wild Card round, the Atlanta Falcons 48–21 in the Divisional round, and long time rivals Chicago Bears 21–14 in the NFC Championship, the team advanced to Super Bowl XLV in which they faced the AFC's 2nd seed Pittsburgh Steelers. The Packers defeated the Steelers 31–25 to win their fourth Super Bowl and 13th NFL championship.


2010 Green Bay Packers season
The Packers became the second overall team after the 2005 Pittsburgh Steelers, and the first NFC team, to win the Super Bowl as a sixth seed, as well as becoming the second NFC team to win three straight road playoff games (the 2007 New York Giants won three straight road games as a five seed). The Packers were the last wild card team to win the Super Bowl until the 2020 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who coincidentally defeated the Packers in the playoffs on that Super Bowl run.


2010 Green Bay Packers season
The Packers offense ranked ninth in yards per game, tenth in total points, & fifth in passing yards. The defense ranked fifth in yards allowed and finished second in points allowed (240), sacks (47), and interceptions (24), while also limiting quarterbacks to a 67.2 passer rating, first in the league.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2010 NFL Draft
After finishing the 2009 season with an 11–5 record, the Packers held the 23rd selection in the 2010 NFL Draft. With the pick they selected Offensive tackle Bryan Bulaga from Iowa.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2010 NFL Draft
On the second day of the draft, with pick 2–56 the Packers selected Defensive end Mike Neal from Purdue. The Packers then traded picks 3–86 and 4–122 to the Philadelphia Eagles for pick 3–71. With pick 3–71, the Packers selected Safety Morgan Burnett from Georgia Tech.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, 2010 NFL Draft
On the third and final day of the draft, with pick 5–154 the Packers selected Tight end Andrew Quarless from Penn State. With their compensatory selection pick 5–169, the Packers selected Offensive guard Marshall Newhouse from Texas Christian. In the sixth round with pick 6–193, the Packers selected Running back James Starks from Buffalo. Their final selection of the draft came when the Packers selected Defensive end C. J. Wilson of East Carolina with pick 7–230.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Draft pick trades, Undrafted free agents
Following the 2010 NFL Draft, the Packers signed 11 undrafted free agents. They were:


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Offseason, Draft pick trades, Undrafted free agents
On May 3, the Packers signed wide receiver Shawn Gore, safety Anthony Levine  and nose tackle Aleric Mullins after they attended a minicamp on a tryout basis.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 1
The Packers began their season at Lincoln Financial Field against the Philadelphia Eagles, who were wearing throwback uniforms commemorating the 50th anniversary of the teams' victory over the Packers in the 1960 NFL Championship Game. Green Bay trailed in the first quarter as Eagles kicker David Akers made a 45-yard field goal. The Packers would then take control in the second quarter as kicker Mason Crosby nailed a 49-yard field goal, followed by quarterback Aaron Rodgers completing a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Donald Driver. Crosby would then end the half with a 56-yard field goal.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 1
Eagles starting quarterback Kevin Kolb left the game with concussion at halftime, and was replaced by second-string quarterback Michael Vick for the remainder of the contest.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 1
Philadelphia would respond in the third quarter as running back LeSean McCoy scored on a 12-yard touchdown run, yet Green Bay came right back with Rodgers finding wide receiver Greg Jennings on a 32-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles tried to rally in the fourth quarter as quarterback Michael Vick completed a 17-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jeremy Maclin, followed by a 24-yard field goal from Akers. Fortunately, the Packers' defense prevented any further progress stopping Michael Vick on a key 4th and 1 rush up the middle for no gain.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 1
With the win, Green Bay not only began its season at 1–0, but also got its first victory in Philadelphia since 1962.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 1
However, the Packers victory was not without cost. During the game, Justin Harrell injured his ACL and Ryan Grant injured his ankle. Both players were placed on injured reserve for the rest of the season.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 2
Hoping to continue their current winning streak, the Packers returned to Lambeau Field for their home opener, an interconference duel with the Buffalo Bills. In the 1st quarter Green Bay took the early lead as kicker Mason Crosby made two field goals from 44 and 24 yards. RB Brandon Jackson added a touchdown on a 1-yard run. The Bills then answered in the 2nd quarter when RB Fred Jackson scored a touchdown on a 3-yard run.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 2
In the third quarter the Packers increased their lead when WR Donald Driver hauled in a 7-yard touchdown pass from QB Aaron Rodgers, followed by Rodgers scrambling 9 yards to the endzone for a touchdown. The Packers continued to dominate in the fourth quarter when Rodgers completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to WR James Jones.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 2
With the win, Green Bay improved their record to 2–0 on the season tied with the Chicago Bears for the division lead. Both the Minnesota Vikings and Detroit Lions fell to 0–2. Linebacker Clay Matthews became the first Packer and one of only eight players in NFL history to record at least 6 sacks in the first two weeks of the season.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 3
Coming off their home win over the Bills, the Packers traveled to Soldier Field for a Week 3 Monday night duel with their hated divisional rival, the Chicago Bears. Green Bay would deliver the opening strike in the first quarter as quarterback Aaron Rodgers completed a 7-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Greg Jennings. The Packers would add onto their lead in the second quarter as kicker Mason Crosby got a 38-yard field goal. Afterwards, the Bears would close out the half, as quarterback Jay Cutler found tight end Greg Olsen on a 9-yard touchdown run.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 3
After a scoreless third quarter, Chicago took the lead in the fourth quarter as wide receiver Devin Hester returned a punt 62 yards for a touchdown. Fortunately, Green Bay came right back with a 9-yard touchdown run from Rodgers. However, the Bears' Robbie Gould scored two field goals, from 25 and 19 yards, the final points being set up by a James Jones fumble, to win the game for Chicago.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 3
The Packers committed a franchise record 18 penalties in the game.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 4
Hoping to rebound from their loss to the Bears, the Packers played on home ground for an NFC North rivalry match against the Lions. The Packers took the lead in the 1st quarter when QB Aaron Rodgers made a 29-yard TD pass to WR Donald Driver. The Lions replied in the 2nd quarter with QB Shaun Hill making a 23-yard TD pass to WR Calvin Johnson. The Packers started to rally with Rodgers making a 13-yard TD pass to TE Jermichael Finley and then a 17-yard TD pass to WR Greg Jennings.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 4
The Lions cut the lead as QB Shaun Hill made a 21-yard TD pass to WR Calvin Johnson. The Packers continued to progress in the 3rd quarter when CB Charles Woodson returned an interception 48 yards into the endzone for a touchdown. The Lions tried to cut the lead with four field goals by kicker Jason Hanson. He kicked a 39 and a 52 yard field goal for the rest of the 3rd quarter, and then a 49 and a 24 yard field goal in the fourth. However, the Packers defense never allowed the Lions to take the lead and the offense ran out the clock behind fullback John Kuhn.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 5
Coming off their win over the Lions the Packers flew to FedExField for an NFC duel with the Redskins. In the first quarter the Packers took the lead as QB Aaron Rodgers completed a 5-yard TD pass to TE Donald Lee. This was followed in the 2nd quarter by kicker Mason Crosby hitting a 52-yard field goal. The Redskins replied with kicker Graham Gano getting a 26-yard field goal. Then in the third quarter Crosby made a 36-yard field goal to put the Packers up 13–3.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 5
The Redskins rallied to tie the game with QB Donovan McNabb completing a 48-yard TD pass to WR Anthony Armstrong, followed by Gano making a 45 yard-field goal. At overtime, the decision was made when Gano successfully put away a 33-yard field goal to give the Packers their second loss of this season. Donavan McNabb would finish the game with 357 passing yards and run his career record against Green Bay to 6 wins and 1 loss.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 6
For the second consecutive week the Packers lost by an overtime field goal, falling to 3–3 on the season.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 7
Trying to snap a two-game losing streak, the Packers stayed at home for a Week 7 NFC North Sunday night duel with the Minnesota Vikings, as quarterback Brett Favre made his return to Lambeau Field. Green Bay delivered the opening punch in the first quarter as running back Brandon Jackson got a 1-yard touchdown run. The Vikings answered with wide receiver Percy Harvin getting a 17-yard touchdown run. In the second quarter, the Packers regained the lead as quarterback Aaron Rodgers finding tight end Andrew Quarless on a 9-yard touchdown pass. Minnesota would take the lead with running back Adrian Peterson getting a 1-yard touchdown run, followed by kicker Ryan Longwell making a 28-yard field goal.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 7
Green Bay regained the lead in the third quarter as Rodgers hooked up with wide receiver Greg Jennings on a 14-yard touchdown pass, followed by linebacker Desmond Bishop returning an interception 32 yards for a touchdown. The Vikings answered with Favre completing a 4-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Randy Moss. Late in the 4th quarter, Favre led the Vikings to a last-minute drive to near the Packer 20 and nearly had a game-winning touchdown pass, but official review showed the receiver, Percy Harvin, did not have both feet in the end zone, therefore making the pass incomplete. The Vikings tried a game-winning pass on 4th down, but Favre's throw was high to Moss and the Packers held on to their first victory over their former QB.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 8
After finally beating former quarterback Brett Favre in Week 7, the Packers traveled to New Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ to take on the New York Jets. The Packers took a 3–0 lead on a Mason Crosby 20-yard field goal in the first quarter and held that lead until the fourth quarter. Crosby then hit two field goals in the fourth quarter (from 41 and 40 yards respectively) to seal the victory for the Packers. While Aaron Rodgers and the Packer offense sputtered against the vaunted Jet defense, Green Bay's defense excelled in stopping the NFL's second-ranked rushing offense and intercepted Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez twice.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 8
The win improved the Packers to 5–3 and in first place in the NFC North.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 9
After winning against the New York Jets for the first time in the New York Area, the Green Bay Packers took on the lowly Dallas Cowboys. After a scoreless first quarter, the Packers offense that was limited to 9 points against the New York Jets, built a 28–0 lead before the Cowboys scored their only touchdown before the end of the first half. The Packers would score 17 more points in the second half before closing the game out 45–7 over the Dallas Cowboys. The Green Bay Packers intercepted Jon Kitna 3 times including one to Clay Matthews which would result in 62-yard touchdown, while Aaron Rodgers threw for 3 touchdowns. With the win, the Packers improved to 6–3.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 11
In the Packers last game ever against the Vikings with Brett Favre under center, the Packers blew out the Vikings in a 31-3 victory. Aaron Rodgers completed 22/31 passes for 301 yards, with 4 touchdown passes, no interception, and a season high passer rating of 141.3.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 14
Green Bay lost to Detroit for the first time in 11 games against the Lions. Also, at the end of the 1st half, Aaron Rodgers suffered a concussion and wouldn't play the next week.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 16
In week 16, the Green Bay Packers dominated the New York Giants, winning 45–17 in Lambeau Field.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
The Packers finished the 2010 regular season vs. the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field. Going into the final Sunday of the season, the Packers needed a win or a New York Giants and a Tampa Bay Buccaneers loss to clinch the sixth and final NFC wild-card seed. The Bears, on the other hand, had the NFC North Division title and the number 2 NFC seed wrapped up, though they played their starters for the contest. Tampa defeated the New Orleans Saints in their 1 o'clock contest before the Packers game, so the Packers had to come out of the game with a win.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
During the first quarter, the Packers and Bears offenses exchanged possession with no scoring. The Bears forced a turnover with 5:58 left in the 1st when Donald Driver was stripped of the ball after an 8-yard reception and the fumble was recovered by the Bears.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
In the second quarter, the Bears put their first and only points on the board for the day when Robbie Gould successfully converted a 30-yard field goal with 4:35 left in the half. The scoring drive was highlighted with two 20+ yard passes by Jay Cutler to WR Rashied Davis and RB Matt Forte to get them into field goal range. The teams entered into halftime of the defensive contest with the Bears holding onto a slim 3–0 lead.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
After the half, the Bears started the quarter with the ball. After moving the ball into Packers territory, the Bears chose to go for it on a fourth and two at the Packers 40. Jay Cutler failed to complete a short pass to Rashied Davis and the Packers took over on downs. On the Packers' first play of the second half, Rodgers threw a deep pass intended for Greg Jennings but the pass was intercepted by CB Charles Tillman and returned to the Packers 15-yard line. The interception was challenged, but upheld. After a holding penalty and a couple of short gains by the Bears, Jay Cutler was intercepted on 3rd down in the endzone by Packers safety Charlie Peprah for a touchback.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
The Packers and Bears swapped possessions and CB Tramon Williams returned the Bears punt back to the Bears 44-yard line to set the Packers up in optimal field position. Three plays into the drive, Aaron Rodgers completed a 33-yard pass to Greg Jennings down to the Bears 1-yard line. The Packers failed to score a touchdown and settled for a 23-yard field goal attempt by Mason Crosby which was successfully converted to tie the game at 3–3.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
At the start of the fourth quarter, the Packers had possession and again got into the red zone, highlighted by two key plays, a 21-yard pass over the middle to Donald Driver and a 46-yard pass deep right to Greg Jennings that set up the Packers for a 1st and goal at the Bears 1-yard line for the second time of the game. This time though, the Packers scored a touchdown on 1st down when Aaron Rodgers completed a pass into the end zone to Donald Lee short right for his second 1-yard touchdown reception in two games to give the Packers a 10–3 lead with 12:46 remaining in the game.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
After exchanging possessions, the Bears took over with 4:49 left in the game at the Bears 2-yard line. The Bears moved the ball into Packers territory with many short passes down to the Packers 32-yard line. Needing a touchdown to tie the game, the Bears continued to pass the ball but their drive came to an end when Cutler passed deep left to Devin Hester and the pass was intercepted by Nick Collins and returned 24 yards to the Bears 35-yard line. The game marked the 16th time in the past 17 seasons that Green Bay had won its final regular-season game.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Regular season summary, Week 17
With the interception, the Packers sealed their victory over the rival Bears, along with the 6th seed in the NFL playoffs. The Giants later won their game against the Washington Redskins, but it was all for naught due to the Packers holding tiebreakers over the Giants and Buccaneers.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Wild Card
Entering the postseason as the NFC's No. 6 seed, the Packers began their playoff run at Lincoln Financial Field for the NFC Wild Card game against the No. 3 Philadelphia Eagles. This was a rematch of their Week 1 win. The Packers delivered the game's opening strike in the first quarter as quarterback Aaron Rodgers found rookie tight end Tom Crabtree on a 4-yard touchdown pass. Green Bay would add onto their lead in the second quarter as Rodgers connected with wide receiver James Jones on a 9-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles answered with kicker David Akers getting a 29-yard field goal.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Wild Card
Philadelphia managed to cut away at their deficit in the third quarter as quarterback Michael Vick completed a 24-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Jason Avant, but the Packers responded with Rodgers hooking up with running back Brandon Jackson on a 16-yard touchdown pass. The Eagles tried to rally as Vick got a 1-yard touchdown run (with a failed two-point conversion), but Green Bay's defense held on to preserve the victory as Tramon Williams intercepted a Michael Vick pass in the end zone with 36 seconds remaining.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Wild Card
With the win, the Packers improved their overall record to 11–6.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Divisional
Coming off their win over the Eagles, the Packers flew to the Georgia Dome for the NFC Divisional Round against the top-seeded Atlanta Falcons, in hopes to avenge their Week 12 loss. Aaron Rodgers had arguably the greatest game of his career. He completed 31 of 36 passes for 366 yards and 4 total touchdowns. Green Bay trailed in the first quarter as Falcons running back Michael Turner got a 12-yard touchdown run.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Divisional
The Packers answered in the second quarter as quarterback Aaron Rodgers found wide receiver Jordy Nelson on a 6-yard touchdown pass, but Atlanta immediately struck back as wide receiver Eric Weems returned a kickoff 102 yards for a touchdown. Green Bay took the lead with a 1-yard touchdown run from fullback John Kuhn, followed by Rodgers finding James Jones on a 20-yard touchdown, along with cornerback Tramon Williams returning an interception 70 yards for a touchdown as time expired in the first half.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Divisional
The Packers added onto their lead in the third quarter with a 7-yard touchdown run from Rodgers, followed by his 7-yard touchdown pass to Kuhn. Atlanta tried to rally in the fourth quarter as quarterback Matt Ryan completed a 6-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Roddy White, yet Green Bay closed out their dominating night with a 43-yard and a 32-yard field goal from Crosby. The Packers never once punted during the game. With the win, the Packers improved their overall record to 12–6.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, Divisional
Green Bay's 48 points became the franchise's single-game postseason record and the 48–21 final score is also the second largest win margin in Packers playoff history.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, NFC Championship
Coming off their win over the Falcons, the Packers flew to Soldier Field for the NFC Championship Game against their historic rival, the No. 2 seed Chicago Bears, in Round 3 of their 2010 series. This would be the second playoff meeting between the two teams, the first since falling to Chicago 33–14 in 1941.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, NFC Championship
Green Bay delivered the game's opening strike in the first quarter with a 1-yard touchdown run from quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The Packers added onto their lead in the second quarter with a 4-yard touchdown run from rookie running back James Starks. After a scoreless third quarter, the Bears answered in the fourth quarter as running back Chester Taylor got a 1-yard touchdown run. Afterwards, Green Bay struck back with nose tackle B.J. Raji returning an interception 18 yards for a touchdown. Chicago tried to rally as quarterback Caleb Hanie completed a 35-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Earl Bennett, the Packers' defense held on to preserve the victory.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, NFC Championship
With the win, not only did they improve their overall record to 13–6, but they advanced to Super Bowl XLV (their first appearance since Super Bowl XXXII). In the process, they became the NFC's first No. 6 seed to reach the Super Bowl. They also became the 3rd NFC wild card team to reach the Super Bowl, and the first since the New York Giants in 2008.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Postseason, NFC Championship
The Packers also went 3–0 on the road in the postseason after going 3–5 on the road in the regular season, including losses in their last three road games.


2010 Green Bay Packers season, Awards and records, 2011 Pro Bowl selections
The Packers 2011 Pro Bowl selections were announced on December 28,. The Packers initially had five players on the Pro Bowl list. These players were WR Greg Jennings, LT Chad Clifton, OLB Clay Matthews, CB Charles Woodson and S Nick Collins. CB Tramon Williams was later added as a reserve on January 20, when Philadelphia Eagles CB Asante Samuel pulled out of the Pro Bowl due to injury. The Packers also had a first alternate in QB Aaron Rodgers and four lower alternates, NT B. J. Raji, G Josh Sitton, LB A. J. Hawk and WR Donald Driver. No Packers took part in the Pro Bowl, due to their participation in Super Bowl XLV.


2010 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election
The Green Party (SZ) leadership election of 2010 was held on 14 November 2010. Ondřej Liška was elected for his second term when he received 125 votes of 209.


2010 Green Party (Czech Republic) leadership election, Voting
There were 4 Candidates besides Ondřej Liška - Karel Helman, Martin Marek, Giuseppe Maiello and Ivana Kyselková. 209 Delegates voted. Liška received 125 votes while Helman 35 and Maiello 27 votes. Marek received 5 votes and Kyselková 4.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election
The 2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election took place in September 2010 to determine the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. It was won unopposed by the incumbent leader, Caroline Lucas.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election
At the same time, Adrian Ramsay won re-election as deputy leader after defeating a challenge from the former principal speaker Derek Wall.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election
All members of the party were sent ballot papers in the post with their copy of the party's magazine, Green World and voting ended shortly after hustings were held at the party's autumn conference in Birmingham where members who had not already posted their ballot papers could vote in person at conference.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Background
Prior to 2008, the party had used a system of principal speakers instead of leaders. Following an internal vote in 2007, the party elected individual leaders. Caroline Lucas, who had previously been elected as principal speaker, was chosen in 2008 as the first leader of the Green Party, beating Ashley Gunstock to win with more than 90% of the vote.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign
Caroline Lucas and Adrian Ramsay campaigned for re-election together and shared materials such as a website and leaflets promoting them both together.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Campaign
Derek Wall campaigned with the support of internal group Green Left which he has been an active member of since its formation.


2010 Green Party of England and Wales leadership election, Result
A total of 3,279 votes were cast in the postal ballot.


2010 Green Soccer Bowl
The 2010 Green Soccer Bowl was a proposed an association football tournament. The 2010 edition was to be the inaugural version of the invitational event. The event was erroneously referred to as the Obama Cup in various news outlets including the BBC.


2010 Green Soccer Bowl
Nigeria and Ghana were expected to field a 'B team' as the first team is participating in the 2010 FIFA World Cup.


2010 Green Soccer Bowl
Malaysia will field their Under-21 team as the Malaysia National team will participate in their friendly tour in Turkey.


2010 Green Soccer Bowl
The event was announced as having been canceled on May 15, 2010, less than a week before the games were set to begin. Reports indicate that the promoter canceled the event.


2010 Green Soccer Bowl, Tournament Format
Kenya, Nigeria and Ghana each received a bye to the semi-final stage.


2010 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship
The 2010 Coca-Cola GM was the 40th edition of the Greenlandic Men's Football Championship. The final round was held in Nuuk from August 16 to 21. It was won by B-67 Nuuk for the seventh time in its history.


2010 Greenlandic Men's Football Championship, Qualifying Stage, Central Greenland
NB Nuuk IL qualified for the Final Round as hosts.


2010 Greenwich London Borough Council election
Elections for Greenwich Council in London were held on 6 May 2010. The 2010 United Kingdom General Election and other local elections took place on the same day.


2010 Greenwich London Borough Council election
In London council elections the entire council is elected every four years, as opposed to some local elections where one councillor is elected every year in three of the four years.


2010 Grey County municipal elections
Elections were held in Grey County, Ontario on October 25, 2010 in conjunction with municipal elections across the province.


2010 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
The 2010 Grote Prijs Jef Scherens was the 44th edition of the Grote Prijs Jef Scherens cycle race and was held on 5 September 2010. The race started and finished in Leuven. The race was won by Lars Boom.


2010 Guadiana Trophy
The 2010 Guadiana Trophy was the 10th edition of the competition and took place between 30 July and 1 August 2010. It featured Benfica, Feyenoord, and Aston Villa.


2010 Guadiana Trophy
Benfica won its fourth title after beating Aston Villa in the final by a score of 4-1.


2010 Guamanian general election
General elections were held in Guam on November 2, 2010. Voters in Guam chose their Governor, their non-voting delegate to the United States House of Representatives, Attorney General, as well as all fifteen members of the territorial legislature. The election coincided with the 2010 United States elections.


2010 Guamanian general election, Governor of Guam
Two term incumbent Republican Governor Felix Perez Camacho was term limited and could seek re-election. Former Democratic Governor Carl Gutierrez and his running mate, Frank Aguon, is seeking election against the Republican gubernatorial ticket of Senator Eddie Calvo and his running mate, Ray Tenorio.


2010 Guamanian general election, United States House of Representatives
Incumbent Delegate Madeleine Bordallo (D) was running unopposed for re-election for Guam's lone At-large congressional seat. She was re-elected unopposed.


2010 Guamanian general election, Attorney General
Three candidates are seeking election as Attorney General, Gary Gumataotao, Leonardo Rapadas, and William C. Bischoff.


2010 Guamanian general election, Legislature of Guam
All fifteen seats in the Legislature of Guam are up for election. Democrats, under Speaker Judith T.P. Won Pat, controlled ten seats in the Legislature before the 2010 election, while Republicans held five seats.


2010 Guamanian general election, Consolidated Commission on Utilities, Candidates
Three candidates are seeking election as CCU, will have three seats.


2010 Guamanian general election, Judicial retention elections
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, F. Philip Carbullido, and one Superior Court Judge, Anita A. Sukola, were up for retention.


2010 Guamanian gubernatorial election
The 2010 Guam gubernatorial election was held on November 2, 2010. Republican Governor Felix P. Camacho was term-limited in 2010 and ineligible to run for re-election. In January 2009, the website D.C.'s Political Report predicted that the Republican Party would retain the governorship. Republican Eddie Calvo won the election.


2010 Guamanian gubernatorial election
The Democratic and Republican primary elections were held on September 4, 2010.


2010 Guamanian gubernatorial election, Democratic primary, Governor/Lt. Governor
This is the first gubernatorial election in 40 years in which there was no contested Democratic primary election.


2010 Guamanian legislative election
Legislative election also known as Senatorial election for the Legislature of Guam took place on November 2, 2010,  coinciding with the 2010 United States general elections and the Guam gubernatorial election. All 15 seats in the Legislature of Guam were up for election.


2010 Guamanian legislative election, Primary Election
The members are elected at-large with the first 15 winning candidates are elected as the new members of the legislature. As there were many candidates running, primaries were set on September 4, 2010, for both the Democratic and Republican parties. The fifteen candidates who win the most votes go on to the General election.


2010 Guamanian legislative election, General election candidates
List of candidates running for election in 2010 as they appear on the 2010 ballot. The top fifteen vote winners from either political party will be elected. (I) indicates an incumbent member seeking re-election.


2010 Guamanian legislative election, Primary Election
The members are elected at-large with the first 15 winning candidates are elected as the new members of the legislature. As there were many candidates running, primaries were set on September 4, 2010 for both the Democratic and Republican parties. The first fifteen candidates who win the highest votes go on to the General election.


2010 Guamanian legislative election, General election results
Following the primaries, there were 26 candidates vying for the 15 seats in the Legislature of Guam. The members are elected at-large with the first 15 winning candidates are elected as the new members of the legislature.


2010 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
The 32nd Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup was held in December 2009 and January 2010. The first leg was played at Siu Sai Wan Sports Ground on 29 December, with the second leg to take place at Zhaoqing Sports Center on 2 January.


2010 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup
Hong Kong won Guangdong 2-1 in the first leg with Julius Akosah scoring two goals in his first game for Hong Kong. However, Guangdong won the second leg 2-0 with Li Jian scoring two goals. Guangdong, with a final aggregate score of 2-3, won the Guangdong-Hong Kong Cup and denied Hong Kong the chance to win the Cup for four consecutive times.


2010 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup, Squads, Guangdong
The squad was announced by Guangdong Sunray Cave and Guangzhou Pharmaceutical on December 2009.


2010 Guangdong–Hong Kong Cup, Squads, Hong Kong
The squad was announced on 21 December 2009. Since South China, TSW Pegasus, NT Realty Wofoo Tai Po and Tai Chung had a game on 3 January 2010, Yan Lik Kin and player from these teams did not feature in the team.


2010 Guangxi Wildfire
The 2010 Guangxi Wildfire occurred in western Guangxi, China during that year's spring season.


2010 Guangxi Wildfire, Background
On Thursday, March 3, 2010, a wildfire ignited in the mountainous county of Longlin in Guangxi, China. Drought had already begun to impact the area previously, and the dry weather and lack of water contributed to the fire's success. The wildfire burned large volumes of forests and brush until it was finally put out six days and twenty-two hours later.


2010 Guangxi Wildfire, Effects
According to Longlin County's fire control headquarters, a day after its ignition the fire had already burned 1,400 Mu (or about 93 hectares or 229 acres) of forestland, with a front spanning 5.3 kilometers. The fire was also heading towards the Zhongshan National Nature Reserve, where over two hundred of the endangered black-necked pheasant lived and were at risk of being affected by the traveling flames.


2010 Guangxi Wildfire, Effects
Along with the area's locals, over one hundred firefighters and a Mi-26 helicopter were employed to suppress the fire.


2010 Guangxi Wildfire, Effects
After the fire was suppressed, the drought continued to worsen in the southern China region, especially in Guangxi. Two months after the fire, torrential rain caused flash floods and landslides in the same area.


2010 Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. season
The 2010 season is the 57th year in Guangzhou Football Club's existence, their 43rd season in the Chinese football league. The club was relegated to China League One in the fallout of a match fixing scandal despite having achieved the ninth place previous season in the Chinese Super League.


2010 Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. season, Squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Guangzhou Evergrande F.C. season, Squad stats
Updated to games played on 30 October 2010.To see the table ordered by certain column title click that column header icon  once or twice.


2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open
The 2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open (also known as the Landsky Lighting Guangzhou International Women's Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament on outdoor hard courts. It was the 7th edition of the Guangzhou International Women's Open, and part of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour. It took place in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China, from September 13 through September 19, 2010.


2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open, WTA Entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open, Champions, Doubles
Edina Gallovits /  Sania Mirza def. Han Xinyun /  Liu Wanting, 7–5, 6–3


2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open – Doubles
Olga Govortsova and Tatiana Poutchek were the defending champions, but they chose to not compete this year. Edina Gallovits and Sania Mirza won this tournament. They defeated Han Xinyun and Liu Wan-ting 7–5, 6–3 in the final.


2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open – Singles
Shahar Pe'er was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year.


2010 Guangzhou International Women's Open – Singles
Jarmila Groth won her first WTA tour title, defeating Alla Kudryavtseva in the final 6–1, 6–4. Groth won the tournament without dropping a single set.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole
The 2010 Guatemala City sinkhole was a disaster on the 30 May 2010 in which an area approximately 65 ft (20 m) across and 300 ft (90 m) deep collapsed in Guatemala City's Zona 2, swallowing a three-story factory. The sinkhole occurred for a combination of reasons, including Tropical Storm Agatha, the Pacaya Volcano eruption, and leakage from sewer pipes.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Background
Overall, the risk of sinkholes occurring in Guatemala City is high and unpredictable. One recent, similar sinkhole had collapsed in 2007, forming a pit 100 metres deep. The 2007 Guatemala City sinkhole was formed by fluid from a sewer eroding uncemented volcanic ash, limestone, and other pyroclastic deposits underlying Guatemala City. The hazards around the pipe have since then been mitigated, by improved handling of the city's wastewater and runoff. Several rainstorms also contributed to the sinkhole's collapse, as stormwater percolated into the ground, further dissolving the rocks beneath Guatemala City. The 2010 sinkhole was formed for similar reasons.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Formation, Sewage pipes
The sinkhole formed due to volcanic pumice deposits, upon which Guatemala City is built. These deposits were unconsolidated and of low density, allowing easy erosion. According to Sam Bonis, a geologist at Dartmouth College, leaking pipes went unfixed long enough to create the conditions necessary for sinkhole formation because of lax city zoning regulations and building codes. Bonis also says that the Guatemala City sinkhole is a misnomer: sinkholes have natural causes, but this one was mainly artificial. In addition, according to Bonis, sinkholes are usually formed from limestone but there is no limestone hundreds of metres underneath Guatemala City. Bonis proposes that the sinkhole be renamed a piping feature.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Formation, Tropical Storm Agatha
Tropical Storm Agatha was first identified as a trough of low pressure of the western coast of Costa Rica on May 24, 2010. On May 29, the depression intensified into a tropical storm and was given the name Agatha. Later that day, the system intensified slightly before making landfall near the Mexico-Guatemala border with winds of 45 mph (75 km/h). By the morning of May 30, the center of Agatha moved over the highest terrain in Central America, resulting in the dissipation of the low-level circulation. Torrential rains from the storm widened the cavity, eventually causing the collapse of the sinkhole.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Formation, Pacaya volcano eruption
On May 27, three days before Agatha became a tropical depression, the Pacaya volcano, located about 25 mi (40 km) south of Guatemala City, erupted, killing at least one person and blanketing nearby areas with layers of ash. The eruption prompted officials to shut down the country's international airport. Upon the formation of Agatha, people feared that excessive rainfall from the storm could exacerbate the situation and trigger lahars. This had the effect of clogging the underground pipes with soot, increasing the chances of pipe rupture.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Collapse and aftermath
Mariela Castañón, a reporter for the daily newspaper La Hora, reported that the ground collapsed suddenly, taking a three-story house that was used as a factory, and possibly a security guard, along with it. Electricity poles were also sucked in. Authorities said they could not confirm the security guard's death.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Collapse and aftermath
Because of the role played by sewage pipes in the sinkhole's collapse, Sam Bonis, along with other geologists, has demanded that the government inspect the sewer system more regularly.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Collapse and aftermath
According to officials, the sinkhole had similarities with another Guatemalan sinkhole which collapsed in 2007, which may also have been formed by ruptured sewage pipes.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Collapse and aftermath
On a wider scale, immediately following reports of fatalities due to Agatha, a state of emergency was declared for Guatemala. On May 31, the government started to deploy national aid, and donation centers for victims of the storm were opened across the country. According to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), schools in Guatemala were to be closed until at least June 4.


2010 Guatemala City sinkhole, Collapse and aftermath, Filling in the sinkhole
Immediately after the sinkhole's collapse, there were plans to fill it in with a soil cement made from cement, limestone, and water known locally as lodocreto ("mudcrete"). This substance was also used to fill in the 2007 Guatemala City sinkhole. However, another technique, which geologists call the graded-filter technique, in which the sinkhole is filled with successive layers of boulders, smaller rocks, and gravel, could possibly be a better solution. This is because filling the hole in with cement diverts water runoff to other areas, potentially increasing the risk of sinkholes occurring in other parts of the city. The graded-filter technique, on the other hand, allows water to seep through.


2010 Guelph municipal election
The 2010 Guelph municipal election were held on October 25, 2010 in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, to elect the Mayor of Guelph, Guelph City Council and the Guelph members of the Upper Grand District School Board (Public) and Wellington Catholic District School Board. The election was held in conjunction with the provincewide 2010 municipal elections.


2010 Guelph municipal election, Conseil Scolaire Public de District du Centre-Sud Ouest
One candidate to be elected, representing Waterloo Region, Middlesex County, Wellington County, Perth County and Huron County.


2010 Guelph municipal election, Conseil Scolaire de District Catholiques Centre-Sud
One candidate to be elected, representing Brampton, Caledon, Dufferin County and Wellington County.


2010 Guia Race of Macau
The 2010 Guia Race of Macau (formally the 2010 Guia Race of Macau, presented by Sociedade de Jogos de Macau) was the eleventh and final round of the 2010 World Touring Car Championship season and the sixth running of the Guia Race of Macau as a World Touring Car Championship round. It was held at the Guia Circuit on the streets of Macau on 21 November 2010. The race was part of the Macau Grand Prix weekend, headlined by the 2010 Macau Grand Prix Formula Three.


2010 Guia Race of Macau
Chevrolet sealed their first manufacturers' championship while Sergio Hernández secured the Yokohama Independents' Trophy for the second time.


2010 Guia Race of Macau
Race one was won by polesitter Robert Huff of Chevrolet RML, while Norbert Michelisz took his maiden victory in race two, driving for Zengő-Dension Team.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Background
The drivers' championship was decided after the FIA found the use of sequential gearboxes by BMW Team RBM at the Race of Japan to be illegal and both of their drivers, Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus were stripped of all points earned at the event. This meant Yvan Muller of the factory Chevrolet team secured the world drivers' championship title. Outgoing champion Gabriele Tarquini was still defending second in the championship ahead of Priaulx and Huff. Hernández was leading the Yokohama Independents' Trophy which was still to be decided.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Background
Stefano D'Aste opted to miss the final round of the season in order to attend the Monza Rally Show, despite still being in mathematical contention for the Yokohama Trophy title. André Couto joined SR-Sport for the event, driving the car previously raced by Jordi Gené and Michaël Rossi. Local driver Jo Merszei joined Liqui Moly Team Engstler, as did Japanese racer Masaki Kano. Jacob & Co Racing ran a Honda Accord Euro R for Hong Kong driver Philip Ma and Portuguese team Team Novadriver Total ran a BMW 320si for César Campaniço. Another Honda Accord was entered for their driver Kuok Io Keong and Chan Kin Man raced a self–run Honda Civic Type R.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Testing and free practice
Huff topped an interrupted opening test session on Thursday, with team–mate Alain Menu second. New champion Muller was fifth and Couto was the fastest of the local drivers in tenth. The first stoppage occurred just one lap into the session when Chan Kin Man and Andrei Romanov crashed at the Hospital Bend. Then ten minutes from the end, Kano clipped the barriers at the R–Bend to bring out the red flags again.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Testing and free practice
Huff topped the times in free practice one on Friday, Priaulx was second and Monteiro was third.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Testing and free practice
Free practice two saw Huff complete his testing and practice domination, topping the times with Muller second and Monteiro third for the second session in a row. The session had been delayed as barrier repairs were required following the preceding support race session with FP2 starting two hours later than scheduled. The session was not stopped at any point, however Mehdi Bennani spun his Wiechers-Sport BMW at R–Bend and Fredy Barth stopped after hitting the barriers at Faraway in his SEAT.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Qualifying
Having led all the practice sessions, Huff went on take pole position in a lengthened qualifying which went into a second day. The first session started on Friday afternoon but almost immediately the red flags came out when Tom Coronel hit the barriers at Fishermen's Bend. Once the barriers were repaired, the session resumed but Priaulx hit the barrier at R–Bend.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Qualifying
He broke the front left wheel off his BMW and slowly returned to the pits but the session was stopped again as Kano spun his Engstler BMW at the first corner and was stranded in the middle of the track. Qualifying resumed once again but Kristian Poulsen brought the session to a half for a third time when he collided with the barriers at Paiol with his BMW ending up parked across the track. Scuderia Proteam Motorsport driver Hernández then crashed while trying to avoid Poulsen's stranded car.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Qualifying
By this time it was getting dark and when the session restarted Muller set the fastest time with Huff second. Coronel stopped on track and Q1 was brought to a close after running for almost two hours. The race director decided to delay Q2 until the following morning as darkness set in.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Qualifying
After Q2 had taken place on Saturday morning, Huff took pole position and Michelisz qualified second. A race one grid penalty for the Hungarian driver would see Muller start alongside his Chevrolet team–mate on the front row and Menu would make it a Chevrolet 1–2–3. Muller had hit the barrier at Lisboa in the opening minutes while trying to get ahead of Couto. Monteiro was the leading SR–Sport driver by ending up fifth and Farfus was the leading BMW in sixth. Tarquini, Priaulx, Darryl O'Young and Couto completed the top ten.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Warm-Up
Pole sitter Huff was quickest in the Sunday morning warm–up session, O'Young the fastest independent driver.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race One
Huff led away from pole position followed by Muller while further back there was contact between Priaulx and Couto with both ending up in the barrier at turn one. Couto and Michel Nykjær, who had also been caught up in the incident, both retired while Priaulx limped back to the pits for repairs. As the pack of cars approached Lisboa, Menu outbraked himself and collided with the wall which dropped him from third to fifteenth. The safety came out on the first lap while the cars of Couto and Nykjær were cleared up.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race One
After the race was resumed, O'Young was tapped by the SEAT of Coronel, he lost control of his Chevrolet Lacetti and crashed into the wall at Lisboa having also collected Barth. Coronel was handed a drive–through penalty for causing the collision. Three laps from the end, Huff led Muller and Monteiro while Farfus was defending fourth from Tarquini. The BMW driver was eventually passed by the Italian and then by Michelisz. Ho brought out the final safety car when he crashed and his car came to a rest blocking the track. The race ended under the safety car with Huff claiming the victory, Muller second, Monteiro third, Tarquini fourth, Michelisz fifth and Farfus sixth. Menu had hauled himself back up from fifteenth to seventh to beat Yokohama Trophy winner Poulsen.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race Two
Poulsen started from the reversed grid pole but was passed by Michelisz and Tarquini at the Mandarin curve. Front row starter Menu had stalled and Farfus had dropped down to fourth at the start, he was however able to elevate himself to third at the expense of Poulsen approaching Lisboa. The race was stopped on the first lap when Romanov, O'Young and Nobuteru Taniguchi collided and blocked the track at Police with the rest of the field stuck behind them. Damage sustained in the pileup also forced Barth and Yukinori Taniguchi to retire.


2010 Guia Race of Macau, Report, Race Two
The race was restarted behind the safety car with Michelisz leading Tarquini and Farfus. Colin Turkington served a drive–through penalty after his mechanics continued to work on his car after the three-minute board was shown on the grid. Muller and Huff passed Poulsen before Muller let his team–mate pass him in order to catch Farfus. In attempting a pass, Huff knocked Farfus' rear bumper off but was eventually able to pass and started to close in on Tarquini. Farfus dropped down the order further when Muller passed him on lap nine. Kano and Campaniço both crashed out the race. Michelisz led until the end to claim his first WTCC win with Tarquini second and race one winner Huff third. Hernández beat Engstler to finish ninth and claim the Yokohama Trophy title for the second time.


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest
Military unrest occurred in Guinea-Bissau on 1 April 2010. Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior was placed under house arrest by soldiers, who also detained Army Chief of Staff Zamora Induta. Supporters of Gomes and his party, PAIGC, reacted to the move of the military by demonstrating in the capital, Bissau; Antonio Indjai, the Deputy Chief of Staff, then warned that he would have Gomes killed if the protests continued.


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest, Events of 1 April
In the morning of 1 April 2010, Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior's office was besieged by soldiers. Gomes was detained by the soldiers and moved to a military camp, although he was taken to his home later in the day and kept there under guard. Zamora Induta, the Army Chief of Staff, was also detained and held at the camp. Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto, who had taken refuge at the United Nations compound in Bissau 95 days beforehand due to allegations of a coup plot, was picked up from the compound by soldiers and promptly emerged as one of their leaders.


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest, Events of 1 April
After Gomes was taken by the soldiers, hundreds of his supporters demonstrated near his office and then his home, protesting the soldiers' actions. At a news conference, the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, Antonio Ndjai, warned the demonstrators that he would have Gomes killed unless they stopped their protest. He also characterized Gomes as a "criminal" who should be put on trial. Na Tchuto, meanwhile, expressed contempt for the protesters, saying that they had failed to show any support for himself while he was stuck in the UN compound: "I spent 11 years fighting for Guinea-Bissau's independence. Gomes did not take part in that fight. If the population continues to go out into the streets, I will send the military to clean the streets." The protesters subsequently dispersed, apparently heeding the warnings.


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest, Events of 1 April
Despite his initial, bellicose statements, Ndjai adopted a less confrontational tone later in the day, describing the events as "a purely military problem" and saying that they "do not concern the civil government". He also stressed that "military institutions remain, and will remain, submissive to political power." President Malam Bacai Sanha characterized the events in a similar fashion and said that he would seek "a friendly solution to this problem".


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest, Subsequent events
The situation was less tense by 2 April, and the radio was no longer playing the martial music which had initially been interpreted as signifying a coup attempt. The government held a meeting and condemned the soldiers' treatment of Gomes. Subsequently, the soldiers took Gomes to meet with President Sanha; after the meeting, Gomes declared that he would not resign. He appeared to downplay the situation, describing it as an "incident" and saying that "institutions will return to their normal functions."


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest, Subsequent events
A delegation headed by presidential adviser Mario Cabral visited Induta, who remained in detention at a barracks, on 3 April. According to Cabral, Induta was "being treated well and is fine". Prime Minister Gomes left Guinea-Bissau in late April 2010 and went to Portugal, where he remained for several months; his extended stay in Portugal was officially explained as being related to his health. He eventually returned to Bissau on 16 June.


2010 Guinea-Bissau military unrest, Subsequent events
Upon his return, he vowed that he and his government would remain in office and that he would not resign; he said that he could be removed only through a PAIGC extraordinary congress. While describing himself as a "factor for stability", he said that his efforts to "end the political crisis" depended on "the goodwill of people who are trying at all costs to plunge the country into chaos". Gomes met with Indjai, who subsequently said that he and Gomes could cooperate and "everything has now been smoothed out."


2010 Guinean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Guinea in 2010. They were held under the two-round system, with the first round taking place on 27 June 2010 and the second round on 7 November, after an initial date of 18 July and several other postponements. Alpha Condé was declared the winner, with 52.52% of the votes in the second round. He assumed office on 21 December 2010.


2010 Guinean presidential election
The elections came after a coup in 2008 and the attempted assassination of the junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara in December 2009. There were months of tension and unrest during the electoral process, in which the two main candidates represented the two largest ethnic groups in Guinea: the Fula (French: Peul; Fula: Fulɓe) and the Maninka (Malinke). The elections were also the first free national election held in Guinea since it gained independence in 1958.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Background
The election was originally scheduled to be held on 13 December 2009 (with a second round, if necessary, held on 27 December 2009) following the 2008 Guinean coup d'état. Civilian and political groups proposed to hold them in December after legislative elections in October 2009. The government agreed in late March 2009 to set the election date for 13 and 27 December, but it was then again delayed until 31 January 2010.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Background
While junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara had initially stated he would not run in the election, he declared on 16 April 2009 that he, like every citizen, had the right to stand in the election. On 10 May 2009, however, he stated again that neither he nor any of the other officers involved would stand in the election. Despite this vow, supporters of Camara held a rally in August 2009 to call for him to take off his uniform and run in the elections. The United States felt that he had to abstain from running to ensure a free and fair election.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Background
After Camara was shot in early December 2009 and Konaté took over as the country's leader, an agreement was reached on 16 January 2010 which stipulated that Camara would remain out of the country (where he had been treated for his gunshot wounds), that a transitional government would be formed and that presidential elections would be held within six months.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Background
The election was seen as a chance to change decades of authoritarian rule following independence, as well as to bring stability and foreign investment. This was also the first democratic election since independence in 1958.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Candidates
Twenty-four candidates were approved to run in the election, among them four former prime ministers (Cellou Dalein Diallo, François Lonseny Fall, Lansana Kouyaté and Sidya Touré).


2010 Guinean presidential election, Campaign
For the run-off, at least twelve minor candidates (Francois Louceny Fall, Ousmane Kaba, Hadja Saran Daraba Kaba, Jean Marc Teliano, El Hadj Bouna Keita, Mamadou Diawara, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, El Hadj Mamadou Sylla, Alpha Ibrahima Keira, M'Bemba Traore, Joseph Bangoura and Abraham Boure) voiced their support for Condé over the frontrunner. However, Diallo gained the support of Touré, who came third. Condé then also gained the support of fourth-placed Lansana Kouyaté.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Conduct
As had been expected by observers, the run-off was delayed from 18 July to a later date. The second round was then set for 14 August 2010. On 9 August, less than a week before the runoff was to take place, the vote was delayed again, to 19 September.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Conduct
On 10 September, the president of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI), Ben Sekou Sylla, and another official were convicted of vote-tampering during the first round of voting. The two were sentenced to "one year in prison and a fine of two million Guinea francs [$350] each for electoral fraud." Sylla died in a Paris hospital on 14 September following a long illness, and the odds of holding the election on time were very low as tensions rose in the country. Boubacar Diallo, the commission's director of planning, said "It is highly improbable that the election will be held this Sunday. It is a purely technical problem."


2010 Guinean presidential election, Conduct
The Independent National Electoral Commission said a decision to postpone the election between Jean-Marie Dore, the interim prime minister, and the two candidates, Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé, was made because they needed "two weeks to prepare well." They blamed a lack of necessary voting equipment, saying it could take up to two weeks for arrangements to be in place, and that a new date was yet to be decided. The dates of 10 October, and then 24 October, were proposed for the second round, but on 22 October the vote was put off indefinitely.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Conduct
Siaka Sangare, the new head of the election commission, set 7 November as the new date for the second round of the election "after wide consultation with the different parties in the transition. It is a date that has been agreed upon, cannot be changed, and, dare I say it, I think will be the last one set for this election that the Guinean people are waiting for so much." He added that the election had previously been postponed so as to allow political parties to call for calm following violence.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Conduct, Violence
In the week before the second round of voting, at least 24 people were injured in clashes when supporters of Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé threw rocks at each other after a campaign rally. The incident occurred in several parts of Conakry, marking a sign of escalating tension ahead of the vote. Brawls were also reported near Conde's home, as well as near his Rally of the Guinean People party headquarters in Hamdallaye. The following day rioting continued killing at least one person and injuring 50.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Conduct, Corruption
Vincent Bolloré, a French billionaire close to then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy, allegedly gave financial support to presidential candidate Alpha Condé in the election. He is suspected of having offered Condé discount on advertisements from his ad agency, which he did not equally offer to his opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo. Condé went on to become Guinean president and gave Bolloré's company port concessions. Bolloré formally denies any wrongdoing.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Results
The final results of the first round were announced on 20 July 2010 after confirmation by the Supreme Court, which annulled about one-third of the votes originally cast. While differing significantly from the earlier provisional results, they confirmed a runoff between Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé, with Diallo winning 43.69% against Condé's 18.25% and Sidya Touré's 13.02%.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Results
A big turnout was reported for the second round. Early results (from counting in the districts) for the second round indicated a close race, with final results due when all ballots were brought to Conakry for counting. CENI announced the preliminary results on the evening of 15 November, with Condé the winner with 52.52% of the vote on a 67.87% turnout. Earlier in the day, both candidates claimed victory, with Diallo saying that he would not accept the CENI's provisional results until his complaints of election irregularities had been investigated. Voting along ethnic lines had been expected to hurt Diallo.


2010 Guinean presidential election, Aftermath
After Condé was preliminarily declared the winner some members of the Fula ethnic group (which largely backed Diallo) rioted, barricading roads and destroyed homes and businesses of some Malinkes (who tended to back Conde).


2010 Guinean presidential election, Aftermath
On 18 November the military declared a state of emergency. Nouhou Thiam, the armed forces chief, read the decree on state television which prohibited civilians from congregating in the streets, while only the military and security personnel would have unrestricted movement. He said the decree would be enforced until the Supreme Court declared certified final results, which was to occur before 24 November.


2010 Gulf Ice Hockey Championship
The 2010 Gulf Ice Hockey Championship was the first Gulf Ice Hockey Championship. It took place between 25 May and 30 May 2010 in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The United Arab Emirates won the tournament winning all three of their games and finishing first in the standings. Kuwait finished second and Saudi Arabia finished in third place.


2010 Gulf Ice Hockey Championship, Overview
The 2010 Gulf Ice Hockey Championship began on 25 May 2010 in Kuwait City, Kuwait with the games being played at the National Ice Skating Rink. The Oman and Saudi Arabia their made their debut in international competition. The event was organised by the Kuwait Ice Hockey Association and supervised by the International Ice Hockey Federation who also provided referees. The United Arab Emirates won the tournament, winning all three games and finishing first in the standings. Kuwait finished second after losing only to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia finished in third place.


2010 Gulf Volleyball Clubs Champions Championship
In 2010, the GCC Volleyball Club Championship was staged in Oman. The championship was won by the Al Arabi Qatar team.


2010 Guzzini Challenger
The 2010 Guzzini Challenger was a professional tennis tournament played on Hard courts. This was the seventh edition of the tournament which is part of the 2010 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Recanati, Italy between 19 July and 25 July 2010.


2010 Guzzini Challenger, ATP entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 Guzzini Challenger, Champions, Doubles
Jamie Delgado /  Lovro Zovko def. Charles-Antoine Brézac /  Vincent Stouff, 7–6(6), 6–1


2010 Guzzini Challenger – Doubles
Frederik Nielsen and Joseph Sirianni were the defenders of championship title. Jamie Delgado and Lovro Zovko became the new champions, after their won 7–6(6), 6–1, against Charles-Antoine Brézac and Vincent Stouff.


2010 Guzzini Challenger – Singles
Stéphane Bohli successfully defended his title, beating Adrian Mannarino in the final 6–0, 3–6, 7–6(5).


2010 Gwangju Sangmu FC season
The 2010 season was Gwangju Sangmu FC's ninth season in the K-League in South Korea. Gwangju Sangmu FC will be competing in the K-League, League Cup and Korean FA Cup.


2010 Gwangju Sangmu FC season, Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Gyeongnam FC season
The 2010 season was Gyeongnam FC's fifth season in the K-League in South Korea. Gyeongnam FC is competing in K-League, League Cup and Korean FA Cup.


2010 Gyeongnam FC season, Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2010 Gävleborg county election
Gävleborg County held a county council election on 19 September 2010, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.


2010 Gävleborg county election, Results
The number of seats remained at 75 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 28, a drop of one from 2006. The party gained 36.8 % of an overall valid vote of 172,739.


2010 H1 Unlimited season
The 2010 H1 Unlimited season was the fifty-fifth running of the H1 Unlimited series for unlimited hydroplane, jointly sanctioned by APBA, its governing body in North America and UIM, its international body.


2010 H1 Unlimited season
The finale of the season was the Oryx Cup, held in Doha, Ad Dawhah, Qatar. The 2010 Oryx Cup was the eighteenth running of the UIM World Championship for unlimited hydroplanes.


2010 H1 Unlimited season
For 2010, Oh Boy! Oberto (Miss Madison) was the National High Point Team Champion, while Steve David was the National High Point Driver Champion.


2010 H1 Unlimited season, National High Point Champions, Team Champion
For the 2010 Season, Oh Boy! Oberto (Miss Madison) was the National High Point Team Champion.


2010 H1 Unlimited season, National High Point Champions, Driver Champion
For the 2010 Season, Steve David was the National High Point Driver Champion.


2010 HKFC International Soccer Sevens
2010 HKFC International Soccer Sevens, officially known as IP Global HKFC International Soccer 7s due to sponsorship reason, is the 11th staging of this competition. It was held on 14–16 May 2010.


2010 HKFC International Soccer Sevens, Masters Tournament – Knockout Stage
Except the quarter-final between IP Global All Stars and Andy Cole Jura All Stars which was held on 15 May, all other matches of the Knockout stage were held on 16 May 2010.


2010 HP Open
The 2010 HP Open (also known as the 2010 HP Japan Women's Open Tennis) was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 2nd edition of the HP Open, and was classified as one of the WTA International tournaments of the 2010 WTA Tour. It was played in Osaka, Japan from October 11 to October 17.


2010 HP Open, WTA Players, Other Entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2010 HP Open, Champions, Doubles
Chang Kai-chen /  Lilia Osterloh def. Shuko Aoyama /  Rika Fujiwara, 6–0, 6–3


2010 HP Open – Doubles
Chuang Chia-jung and Lisa Raymond were the defending champions, but they decided to not compete this year. Other Taiwanese-American pair won this tournament. Chang Kai-chen and Lilia Osterloh defeated Shuko Aoyama and Rika Fujiwara 6–0, 6–3 in the final.


2010 HP Open – Singles
Samantha Stosur was the defending champion and top seed, but she was eliminated by Kimiko Date-Krumm in the quarterfinals 5–7, 6–3, 7–6(7–4). Tamarine Tanasugarn won the title 7–5, 6–7(4–7), 6–1 by defeating the 40-year-old Date-Krumm in the final. With Tanasugarn herself being 33 years old, it was the oldest known final (73 years combined) in the history of women's tennis.


2010 Haarlem Baseball Week
The 2010 Haarlem Baseball Week was an international baseball competition held at the Pim Mulier Stadium in Haarlem, the Netherlands from July 9–18, 2010. It was the 25th edition of the tournament.


2010 Haarlem Baseball Week
On July 17, the Netherlands won the tournament for the third time, by winning after 10 innings against Japan.


2010 Haarlem Baseball Week, Teams
Originally, Venezuela would appear for the first time at the Baseball Week, but due to problems getting visa for Puerto Rico, where the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games were set to be held, the organization of the tournament had to withdraw the team.