2010 Vancouver : Prix Olympia Winners



The Prix Olympia, a longstanding tradition initiated by the late Juan Antonio Samaranch in 1985, at the time President of the IOC, has once again been awarded.

As many may remember, the original idea was to organize an international competition to select the three best-designed stamps issued for the Winter Olympic Games in Sarajevo and the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. President Samaranch, himself a great Olympic collector, conceived this prize.

In March 2012, the jury for the Prix Olympia (consisting of the IOC Commission for Philately, Numismatics and Memorabilia) made its selections for the three outstanding stamps issued for the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games:

 

Gold medal: United States Postal Service, stamp of 44 cents (snowboarding)

 

Silver medal : Postal Administration of Andorra, stamp of 0,85 euros (skiing)

 

Bronze medal : Postal Administration of Latvia, stamp of 0,55 euros (ice hockey).

Turkey : 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Stamps and FDC

Slovenia : 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Stamps

Slovenian sportswomen and sportsmen to attend the Winter Olympics since their beginning. For the first ESL, which were in Chamonix (France) in 1924, be noted that we did not have the official status of the Olympic Games, but the competition called the International week of winter sports. Attended by over 258 athletes, including 247 men and 11 women competed in 16 disciplines. A year later, the IOC decided that international competition regarded as the first ESL and that every four years in addition to organizing the annual Winter Olympic Games.

Such were the Olympic Games with the exception of periods of world wars regularly organized every four years up to the ESL in Albertville (France) in 1992. Exceptionally, they were following – XVII. ESL – already two years in Lillehamerju Norway. Then the four-year cycle to continue again this year XXI. ESL, which will be in the Canadian Vancouver.

Winter Olympic Games have so far been mostly in the U.S. – four times, three times the host France, where two were in Austria, Italy, Norway, Switzerland and Japan, where once in Germany, Yugoslavia and Canada.

The first medal, and this silver is the color of the former Yugoslavia at the XIV. ESL in Sarajevo in 1984 in giant slalom, Jure Franko won. Four years later, Matthew Calgary in the Canadian Council reiterated Juretov success by winning silver medals in giant slalom. The remaining medals for the color of the former countries have contributed Miran Tepeš, Matjaž Zupan, Primoz Ulaga and Matjaz Debelak by winning silver medals in team jumping, and once again Matjaz Debelak, who is on a 90-meter hill won the bronze medal.

Slovenia Stamps : 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Medal Winnes

Post of Slovenia issued Commemorative stamps on 24 June 2010, which will pay tribute to two Slovene Olympic medal winners in Vancouver – Tina Maze and Petra Majdič. The two silver and bronze medals won by them represent the most remarkable achievement that Slovene sportswomen ever produced.

Slovakia Stamp: 2010 Winter Olympic Games Vancouver

Tehnical details: Issue number: 468
Date of Issue: 15. 01. 2010
Face value: 1 €
Dimensions: 40,4 x 27,2 mm
Layout/Format: TL
Stamps per TL: 50
Number in set: 1
Stamp designer: Peter Uchnár
Printer: Poštovní tiskárna cenin Praha, a. s.
Print technology: Offset
FDC designer: Peter Uchnár
FDC engraver: Arnold Feke
Cancellation design: Peter Uchnár
FDC Printer: TAB, s. r. o., Bratislava
FDC Print technology: WAITE

Liechtenstien Stamps: Winter Olympic Games Vancouver 2010

By longstanding tradition Liechtenstein issues special series of stamps for each Winter and Summer Olympic Games. What started in 1964 with the first official Liechtenstein Olympic stamp, on which the flags of the two host countries Austria (Innsbruck – Winter) and Japan (Tokyo – Summer) were jointly featured, has been regularly continued since the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich and will be continued this year too to mark the XXI Winter Games in Vancouver (Canada). As for last year’s Olympic stamp (Peking 2008), for this series too an artist from the country hosting the Games has been sought and found. Mark Heine is the Canadian artist entrusted with the task of supplying the artwork for this series and has created two large-format dynamic oil paintings, the first showing a downhill racer in the Alpine Skiing programme (face value CHF 1.00) and the second a cross-country skier in the Nordic Skiing programme (face value CHF 1.80). The sportsmen are shown in the new kit, which when the stamps were printed was still completely unknown to the general public. These outfits are intended to enable Liechtenstein’s winter athletes to continue the great successes of earlier years and perhaps help to bring about another sporting triumph. The time is surely ripe. 

France : 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Stamps

The French post issued a set of two stamps to commemorate the Winter Olympics 2010, featuring 2 disciplines – alpine skiing and figure skating.

Title: Winter Olympic 2010 – France
Date of Issue: 8 February 2010
Country: France
Denominations: 0,85€ x 2

Italy : 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Stamp

Switzerland : 2010 Voncouver Winter Olympic Stamp

Switzerland Stamp for 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games