The natural wood and acrylic glass podium designed for the Vancouver 2010 medal presentations was unveiled Tuesday in downtown Vancouver, along with the dramatic "haute-couture-meets-sport" costumes medal presenters and athlete escorts will wear.

The individual and team podiums, 23 in all, have a fluid and organic design, echoing the undulating peaks and ridges of the Coast Mountain Range.

The podium designed for medal presentations of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games was unveiled by Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Games, along with the costumes medal presenters and athlete escorts will wear in Vancouver, Canada, Feb, 2, 2010

Each one is assembled from more than 200 pieces of precision-cut wood hewed from the forests of British Columbia, renowned internationally for their towering red cedars and Douglas firs.

"When the best winter athletes in the world step onto these magnificent podiums in mere days, they will also be standing on the shoulders of countless people who've helped them achieve their dreams," explained John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).

The podiums range in size from 4.8 metres to 15.3m in length, 1.7m to 5m in depth and half a metre tall at their highest point, the spot reserved for gold medallists.

The lightest podiums, built of Western Red Cedar, weigh approximately 200 kilograms while others range up to 260kg. They will be used in 86 Olympic and 64 Paralympic victory ceremonies and are easily accessible for all athletes.

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