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Torch relay concludes N.L. leg, heads to Maritimes
Halifax :: Canada | 9 days ago
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N.L. — Newfoundland bid farewell to the Olympic flame on Sunday as it boarded the gulf ferry for mainland Nova Scotia. The final stretch of the island’s Olympic tour took the torch from the sunny central region across the west coast to rain-drenched Port...
Tags: Canada Day, Trans-Canada Highway, small town, torch relay, port aux, aux basques, Canada, Halifax, Channel-Port aux Basques Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter Olympics, Summer Olympics torch relay, Fire, Olympic Flame, Torch
Torch relay begins final day in Newfoundland and Labrador
Carbonear :: Canada | 10 days ago
Credibility Residents of the riverside town of Badger waited by the Trans-Canada Highway to be among the first to welcome the Olympic flame early Sunday morning as the torch relay began its final day in Newfoundland and Labrador. On Day 17, the relay commenced westward...
Tags: Newfoundland, torch relay, olympic torch, olympic flame, Canada, Carbonear, Badger, Fire, Torch, Carbonear Newfoundland and Labrador, Joey Smallwood, Clarenville Newfoundland and Labrador, Bay Roberts Newfoundland and Labrador, Brigus Newfoundland and Labrador, Cupids Newfoundland and Labrador, Winter Olympics
Women ski jumpers lose appeal
Vancouver :: Canada | 12 days ago
Credibility Ski jumpers Jessica Jerome, right, of Park City, Utah, and Karla Keck, centre, of Oconomowoc, Wisc., lead their fellow athletes to speak to reporters outside British Columbia Court of Appeal in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday November 12, 2009. Faith that...
Tags: Alpine Canada, Atlantic Canada, Newfoundlanders, ski jumpers, olympic torch, ski jump, torch relay, Appeal Court, winter olympic, women ski, Canada, Vancouver, Winter Olympic Games, Lindsey Van, International Olympic Committee, Olympic Games, Winter sports, Winter Olympics, Ski jumping, Ski jumping at the Winter Olympics, allnews, Powder Mountain Icefield, Sigmund Ruud, Law Crime, William Faulkner, Summer Olympics, Summer Olympics torch relay, Fire, Olympic Flame, Torch, Human Interest
Man badly hurt in nightclub brawl
Winnipeg :: Canada | 16 days ago
Credibility The Olympic flame makes a stop in Churchill, Man., Sunday on day 10 of the 106-day cross-Canada torch relay. One man was seriously injured during a large brawl in the parking lot of a Winnipeg nightclub early Sunday morning. A report for the city of...
Tags: Manitoba, polar bears, olympic flame, Churchill, torch relay, Sagkeeng First Nation, flame makes, Marie Fontaine, olympic torch, lotto max
The other Victoria wants in
Grande Prairie :: Canada | 19 days ago
Credibility Last updated on Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 2:58AM EST I am disgusted and dismayed by the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Committee. I live in the small but beautiful Newfoundland and Labrador town of Victoria. We're a mere six kilometres from Carbonear, a town...
Tags: olympic flame, torch relay, Victoria, Grande Prairie, Alberta
Company Finds Gold in Torch Relay
Whitehorse :: Canada | 22 days ago
Credibility If everything goes according to plan, blustery winds and frigid temperatures won't snuff out a Grecian flame that began traveling across Canada last week in the 106-day kick-off event for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The responsibility for...
Tags: torch relay, Canada
Protesters block Olympic torch relay
Victoria :: Canada | 25 days ago
Credibility Anti-Olympic activists forced the 2010 Olympic torch run to divert from its planned route Friday night as the relay headed toward what was supposed to be a triumphant finale at the B.C. legislature. Several hundred protesters, angry that billions are...
Tags: olympic torch, Victoria International Airport, torch relay, Simon Whitfield, Catriona Le May Doan, winter games, Vancouver, relay starts, protesters blocks, vancouver winter
Olympic flame lit for Vancouver Games
Athens :: Greece | about 1 month ago
Credibility Actress Maria Nafpliotou, who is playing the role of an ancient Greek priestess, holds a pot with the Olympic Flame (AFP Photo / Aris Messinis) Olympic flame lit for Vancouver Games Published 22 October, 2009, 19:07 The Olympic flame for the 2010 Winter...
Tags: Greece, winter olympic, Vancouver, torch relay, olympic flame, silver torch, ancient olympia, flame lit, Canada, got underway
2010 torch lighting practice goes smoothly
Olympia :: WA :: USA | about 1 month ago
Credibility Olympic officials have successfully completed a full rehearsal of the torch lighting ceremony for the 2010 Games in Ancient Olympia under a scorching Grecian sun. Clara Hughes capped off the World Cup speedskating trials Tuesday by winning the women's...
Tags: olympic flame, ancient olympia, winter games, Greater Vancouver, torch relay, Greece, Greek, torch lighting
Torch relay reality: A lot more driving than running
Vancouver :: Canada | 2 months ago
Credibility From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Wednesday, Sep. AM EDT B anish romantic thoughts of the famed Olympic torch being carried along the country's frozen highways by bundled-up, rosy-cheeked runners on its way to Vancouver for the opening...
Tags: olympic torch, torch relay, relay team, Canada, Vancouver
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