Vancouver may be headed down the same road as Torino...but with one major difference which will affect the figure skating event:
Full article here (not sure what to think of that change):
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=01fc5dbe-9e38-4573-9b07-696fd3144d3f
Olympic organizers managed to get the IOC to agree to downsize the Games' arenas to NHLsized rinks instead of the larger European surfaces that are the Olympic standard, as the report suggested. But a curling arena is still up for grabs -- if it can't be built on the original $28-million budget it should simply be scuttled. The speed skating in oval in Richmond is also facing a scheduling crunch.
Full article here (not sure what to think of that change):
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=01fc5dbe-9e38-4573-9b07-696fd3144d3f