By CBC News

Thousands of people gathered in downtown Vancouver on Saturday to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympics, while others protested the Games' legacy.

Last Feb. 12, hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Vancouver and Whistler as the Games officially opened.

Exactly one year later, on a rainy afternoon, spectators, families, and former 2010 volunteers filled Robson Square in downtown Vancouver, the epicentre of the Games.

John Furlong, who was VANOC's CEO, was given a standing ovation.

"I think it's a fantastic thing to say that we saw what sport can do to a nation, how sport can bring a country together and allow it to have a moment like the one we had."

However, at a rally in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Saturday, protesters said the Olympics left a legacy of homelessness.

"The Olympics helped bring things forward more quickly in the Downtown Eastside in terms of more market development," activist Wendy Pedersen said. "And all of that momentum is driving up the prices of land and rents for low-income people."

The Games were also controversial because of the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who lost control of his sled and flew off the luge track during a training run.

An inquiry found that his death was an unforeseeable accident, but internal emails obtained by the CBC through British Columbia's Access to Information Act suggest Olympic organizers knew the track might be dangerous.

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