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(Please give lenghly answers, if possible)

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Vancouver is a coastal city located in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is named for British Captain George Vancouver, who explored the area in the 1790s. The name Vancouver itself originates from the Dutch “van Coevorden”, denoting somebody from Coevorden, a city in the Netherlands. The largest metropolitan area in Western Canada, Vancouver ranks third largest in the country and the city proper ranks eighth. According to the 2010 census Vancouver had a population of 620341 and its Census Metropolitan Area exceeded 2.3 million people. Its residents are ethnically and linguistically diverse; 52% do not speak English as their first language. Vancouver has ranked highly in worldwide “livable city” rankings for more than a decade according to business magazine assessments. At 5335 people per km2 (13817.6 people per mi2) in 2006, Vancouver is the fourth most densely populated major city in North America, after New York City, San Francisco and Mexico City. Urban planning in Vancouver is characterized by high-rise residential and mixed-use development in urban centres, as an alternative to sprawl.[54] This has been credited[by whom?] in contributing to the city’s high rankings in livability. This approach originated in the late 1950s, when city planners began to encourage the building of high-rise residential towers in Vancouver’s West End, subject to strict requirements for setbacks and open space to protect sight lines and preserve green space. The success of …

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But what are the IOC’s deciding factors?

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Without popular demand, these sports were destined to stay on the backburner for later approval.