The

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participated in the

2010 Winter Olympics )'' , nations = 82 , athletes = 2,626 , events = 86 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = February 12, 2010 , closing = February 28, 2010 , opened_by = Governor General Michaëlle Jean , cauldron = Catriona Le May DoanNancy GreeneWayne Gret ...

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, sending 92 participants, the largest Czech team ever to appear at the Winter Olympics. The Czechs competed in the majority of events, except

curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns slidi ...

, skeleton and

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. Hockey player

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served as flag bearer at the opening ceremony. The medal hopes were set on speed skater Martina Sáblíková, cross-country skier Lukáš Bauer, freestyle skier Tomáš Kraus and alpine skier Šárka Záhrobská. As for ice hockey team, the expectations were less ambitious than at previous Olympics and this became true when the Czech teams went out in the quarterfinals. The games of Vancouver were with six medals the most successful in history of independent Czech Republic, equalling the medal count of its predecessor

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from

Sarajevo 1984 The 1984 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XIV Olympic Winter Games (Serbo-Croatian and Slovene: ''XIV. Zimske olimpijske igre''; Cyrillic: XIV Зимске олимпијске игре; mk, XIV Зимски олимписки игр� ...

but surpassing it in quality. The most successful Czech participant (and also the flag bearer during the closing ceremony) was speed skater Martina Sáblíková with two gold and one bronze medal. 2010 Opening Ceremony - Czech Republic entering

2010 Opening Ceremony - Czech Republic entering

Medalists

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Martin Koukal Martin Koukal () (born 25 September 1978 in Nové Město na Moravě) is a Czech cross-country skier and mountaineer who has been competing since 1996. He won two medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with gold in 50 km (2003) and ...

Alpine skiing

Biathlon

;Men ;Women

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

;Distance ;Men ;Women ;Sprint

Figure skating

The Czech Republic qualified two entrants in men's singles and one in ice dancing, for a total of four athletes.

Freestyle skiing

;Ski cross

Ice hockey

Men's tournament

;Roster

Group play

The

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Final rounds

;Qualification playoff ;Quarterfinal

Luge

Nordic combined

Short track speed skating

Ski jumping

Snowboarding

;Halfpipe ;Parallel GS ;Snowboard cross

Speed skating

References

{{Nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics 2010 in Czech sport Nations at the 2010 Winter Olympics 2010