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USA Today: Vancouver is ready for 2010 Olympics

As the Olympic countdown clock outside the Vancouver Art Gallery struck 6 p.m. on Feb. 12, exactly one year before the kickoff of the 2010 Winter Games, air horns blasted from the distinctive white-sails rooftop of Canada Place convention center. A squadron of celebratory torch-bearing skiers hurtled down Grouse Mountain above the city. Diners in restaurants laid down their forks and applauded. And a few hundred street protesters torched an Olympic flag. Read more http://tinyurl.com/d4hsee

 

THIS ENTRY WAS POSTED ON March 18th, 2009 BY Mark Longpre | POSTED IN General ,