Showing posts with label 1980 Winter Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1980 Winter Olympics. Show all posts
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Vancouver's Olympic Cauldron looks a lot like this arrangement of drinking straws.[/caption]
Apparently the big story today is how the Calgary Flames beat Vancouver. But this isn't a story about ice hockey it's a story about Olympic legacies and keeping them alive.
Vancouver's Olympic Cauldron is so far not being lit during the current Sochi Winter Olympics. That was the lead story in The Province newspaper this morning.
In contrast, the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta, which hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics, has lit their Olympic Cauldron. And on February 1, Lake Placid, New York, relighted the Olympic Cauldron from their 1980 Winter Olympics, to celebrate both the current Olympic Games in Sochi as well as their own Olympic legacy.
Vancouver hosted the previous Winter Olympics in 2010. Its Olympic Cauldron is located downtown on the waterfront at Jack Poole Plaza, adjacent to the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Vancouver's Olympic Cauldron looks a lot like this arrangement of drinking straws.[/caption]Apparently the big story today is how the Calgary Flames beat Vancouver. But this isn't a story about ice hockey it's a story about Olympic legacies and keeping them alive.
Vancouver's Olympic Cauldron is so far not being lit during the current Sochi Winter Olympics. That was the lead story in The Province newspaper this morning.
In contrast, the Canadian city of Calgary, Alberta, which hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics, has lit their Olympic Cauldron. And on February 1, Lake Placid, New York, relighted the Olympic Cauldron from their 1980 Winter Olympics, to celebrate both the current Olympic Games in Sochi as well as their own Olympic legacy.
Vancouver hosted the previous Winter Olympics in 2010. Its Olympic Cauldron is located downtown on the waterfront at Jack Poole Plaza, adjacent to the Vancouver Convention Centre.
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