Passing the torch to Vancouver
More than six years after winning the bid, Vancouver 2010 becomes the focus of the Olympic movement this week. CEO John Furlong is in New York at the United Nations to present the Olympic Truce Resolution at the afternoon session. A 2010 Olympic Truce exhibit opens at the UN yesterday. The Olympic flame will be lit in a Thursday ceremony at the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece. A torch relay around Greece follows until Oct. 29 when the flame will be handed over to Canada's Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean at the Panathenian Stadium, site of the 1896 Olympic Games revival.
Anti-2010 protest presentation
"No Olympics on stolen native land." The rallying cry of anti-2010 Games protesters will be explained at Green College at UBC on Monday for the latest installment of the Olympic Games in Myth and Reality series. Aboriginal artist and activist Gord Hill, webmaster of no2010.com, will discuss Olympics on Unceded Indigenous Land from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
