News Source: The Globe & Mail
| 10 months ago
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail January 20, 2009 at 5:43 AM EST Patricia Moreno beat one set of odds in being the first runner named as a torchbearer in the lead-up to the Vancouver Olympics. The next will be to show her friends they're wrong when...
News Source: Toronto Star
| 10 months ago
Having her dreams of carrying the Olympic torch thwarted by an overzealous runner in 1988 hasn't dissuaded Laurie Swanson from taking another crack at making history on Canadian soil. "I was running alongside the runner and she was supposed to hand...
News Source: Macleans
| 10 months ago
A Grade 12 student from Vancouver selected to carry the flame for the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay says she's both excited and nervous about her chance to be part of the Games in her hometown. Patricia Moreno was announced as Coca-Cola's first...
News Source: Macleans
| 10 months ago
An 18-year-old Vancouver woman will be part of Olympic history as Coca-Cola's first pick to carry the flame in the torch relay for the 2010 Vancouver Games. Patricia Moreno was announced as Coke's first torchbearer selection for the historic relay at...
News Source: Leader Post Online
| 10 months ago
Moreno is also a member of her high school leadership program and after school wants to attend university to study kinetics and nutrition...After it is formally lit in Olympia, Greece, the flame is brought to Canada, sparking the relay in Victoria on...