CanadaImmigrants.com British Columbia Desk - Twenty two people who came to Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics have made refugee claims in Canada, seven of them members of the "Olympic family." The Olympic family includes everyone from sponsors and athletes to the entourage of support staff that travels with each country's Olympic team. For privacy concerns, Johanne Nadeau with Citizenship and Immigration couldn't say if any of the claimants were athletes, but did say that seven of them were from organizations directly linked to the Games. The figures from Citizenship and Immigration Canada show the claimants came from nine different countries: Ghana, Hungary, Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Nepal and Japan. As
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