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By Claude Nearing The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are in countdown Mode!!! The Olympic Torch is here and will traveling across Canada in the next few weeks. Twelve Thousand Canadians will have the chance to run with the torch and Cape Breton will be very active as host for the Torch Relay. Sydney will be the Celebration Community on Day 18 November 16th then travel through the assigned route to Port Hawkesbury which will be the Evening Celebration Community. I have the exact route through Cape Breton below for review.
As an Olympic Volunteer we went
through extensive training 6 months before the opening ceremonies in
proper procedures on meeting delegates, sporting officials, media,
and Royalty. I was very fortunate to be stationed at the Athletics
Village where I meet many very interesting people from every corner
of the world.
The Olympic flame will travel to every corner of Canada during the historic torch relay to 200 communities and 1,000 places. The journey begins in Victoria Oct. 30 and when it ends 106 days later, Vancouver Olympic organizers will be in the history books for the longest ever domestic torch relay. The route criss-crosses the country through B.C. to Canada’s North, before heading across the prairies and then back north before heading to the Atlantic Provinces. From there it will travel west again to finish in Vancouver and set ablaze the Olympic cauldron and mark to start of the Games on Feb.12 2010. It will go as far north as Alert, Nunavut, and as far south as Point Pelee, Ontario.It will spend time in all provincial capitals and visit national parks, lighthouses and First Nations communities. When it arrives back in Vancouver the torch will have 45,000 kilometers by land, sea, and air and come within an hour’s drive of 90 per cent of the Canadian population. DID YOU KNOW…………. The torch is about one meter long and weighs 1.6 kilograms when filled with fuel and will be carried by 12,000 Canadians prior to the Games. In ancient times torch relays had a religious element to them. Torch relays began in ancient Greece as religious rituals held at night and soon they turned into a team event Among adolescents and further developed into the most popular sports. The enchanting power of fire was a source of inspiration. The Vancouver Winter Olympics will be the third Olympics held in Canada with Montreal hosting the Summer Olympics and Calgary the Winter Olympics in 1988.
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Be
ready for an experience that you should check out as it will not
happen again for many years. I did back in Calgary for the Winter
Olympics in 1988 and will never forget the enjoyment of meeting so
people from every corner of the world.It was quite amazing!!!
