2010 Winter Olympics for the 2000 Summer Olympics by two votes. Vancouver's victory came almost two years after Toronto's 2008 Summer Olympic bid was defeated by Beijing in a landslide vote. The Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) spent C$16.6 million on upgrading facilities at Cypress Mountain, which hosted the freestyle (aerials, moguls, ski cross) and snowboarding events. With the opening in February 2009 of the C$40 million Vancouver Olympic/Paralympic Centre at Hillcrest Park, which hosted curling, every sports venue for the 2010 Games was completed on time and at least one year prior to the Games. In 2004, the operational cost of the 2010
Bhutan Paralympic Committee to help qualify athletes in the 2020 games and establish a Paralympic committee. On September of the following year, the Bhutan Paralympic Committee was established and on the same year the organization joined the Asian Paralympic Committee and the International Paralympic Committee. NPC Bhutan became a member of the Bhutan Olympic Committee on February 2018. Bhutan made its debut at the Asian Para Games in the 2018 edition hosted in Jakarta, Indonesia with two athletes, an archer and a shooter. Bhutan Paralympic Committee The Bhutan Paralympic Committee, also known as NPC Bhutan, is the national sports body for disabled athletes