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The route of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay carried the torch through over 1000 communities across Canada, visiting different locations from October 30, 2009 to its final stop at BC Place in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 12, 2010.
The route was designed in a way that 90 per cent of Canadians lived within a 2-hour drive of the route. [1] The torch covered a distance of 18,000 kilometres (11,000 mi), the greatest distance for a torch relay in Olympic history until the 2000 Sydney Games, and a sharp contrast to the 1976 Montreal Games when the relay covered only 775 ...
During the bidding process,the Canadian Olympic Committee and the OCO'76 considered reproduce the route taken by the country's discoverer, Jacques Cartier, but they realized it would be very similar toto the 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay held in Mexico. Several alternatives were considered, but there were also issues related to the budget ...
The 2010 Winter Olympics Torch Relay was a 106-day run, from October 30, 2009, until February 12, 2010, prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Plans for the relay were originally announced November 21, 2008, by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC).
The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games. It was introduced at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as a way for Adolf Hitler to highlight the Nazi claim of Aryan connections of Germany to Greece. [ 1 ]
The relay crossed the United States from New York City to Los Angeles, with 3,636 torchbearers running with the torch along a 9,375-mile (15,088 km) route. It was by far the longest Olympic torch relay that had been organized up to that point, creating the precedent for the Olympic flame to tour all parts of the host country rather than ...
A torchbearer at the 2015 Burlington's Sound of Music Festival, participating as part of the torch relay An example of one of the torches from the 2015 Pan American Games. One of the many torch relay route markers. All cities in the Province of Ontario, unless otherwise noted in italics. [6]
For the Olympic torch relay across Canada prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, a cancer survivor named Kailie Kernaghan-Keast was chosen for the leg of the run east of Thunder Bay, with the Terry Fox Monument chosen as the location for her to hand off to the next runner. [12]