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Discover more Canadian pride in 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay.
VANOC teams up with CTC again for international torchbearers as Paralympic Flame touches hearts and minds across the country.
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Canada is getting a second chance to take part in an epic journey. The Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay comes hot on the heels of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay that played such a major role in setting the stage for the 2010 Winter Games last month.
For 10 days, just over 600 torchbearers are highlighting the Paralympic spirit in 11 towns and cities across Canada in the buildup to the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games, which begins on Friday (Mar. 12) in Vancouver, BC. It will be the first time Canada has hosted a Paralympic Winter Games.
The Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Torch Relay is presented by Coca-Cola and RBC, and supported by the Government of Canada and the province of British Columbia.
The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), in collaboration with the Canadian Tourism Commission (CTC), has invited two Paralympic athletes to be international torchbearers.
Today (Mar. 8), wheelchair basketball athlete Naoki Yasu from Japan is carrying the Paralympic Flame in Whistler, BC. His experience there, including a sit-skiing lesson, is being filmed in collaboration with Japanese rights-holding broadcaster NHK. Yasu played for Japan in the 2004 Paralympic Summer Games in Athens, Greece.
On Thursday (Mar. 11), US adaptive ski racer Caitlin Sarubbi from New York City, USA, will be a torchbearer in Vancouver. It’s by no means Sarubbi’s first visit to Canada—she visited Newfoundland and Labrador with her family last summer as part of CTC’s “Connecting with Canadians” program. This project forged links between this country to Olympic and Paralympic athletes and their families before the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The Paralympic Flame started its journey in Ottawa, ON, on Mar. 3 before heading off to Québec City, QC; Toronto, ON; Esquimalt, Victoria, and Squamish, BC. After Whistler, BC’s Lytton, Hope and Vancouver are its final ports of call.
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