The Olympic flame will visit 192 communities in Quebec next year before illuminate the sky at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games. The organizing committee also revealed Friday noon that the torch will pass the New Year ... Val-d'Or.
"We know that Quebeckers like to party and Val-d'Or is a populous city, so the choice was imposed itself," said the director of Torch Relay, Jim Richards.
Nearly 30 million will be spent in the longest relay National Games history. In all, 45 000 km will be flown in the air, water and soil.
The race will begin on 30 October 2009 in Victoria, British Columbia, then head for Alert 900 kilometers from the North Pole. Thereafter, the relay will visit Cape Spears, tip the most easterly of North America and then resume its path toward the West. She will visit La Belle Province on three occasions between November 10 and January 1.
"In 1988, organizers of the Games in Calgary had an impressive work to reach a maximum of communities across the country to spread the Olympic values, but we wanted to go much further. That is why it was very important to go to places like Kuujjuaq. "
Who will bear the flame?
Last August, the English daily The Globe and Mail information contained in a federal memorandum to the effect that Ottawa wanted the torch relay underlines Canada's contribution in the military mission in Afghanistan. According to the daily English-speaking, the Harper government asked the Canadian Olympic Committee that the first carriers of the torch or veterans of the conflict.
"There will perhaps, but nothing is decided for the moment," said Jim Richards. "We have reserved some places porters flame remarkable people ... people who have done something important for Canada. "
"We know that Quebeckers like to party and Val-d'Or is a populous city, so the choice was imposed itself," said the director of Torch Relay, Jim Richards.
Nearly 30 million will be spent in the longest relay National Games history. In all, 45 000 km will be flown in the air, water and soil.
The race will begin on 30 October 2009 in Victoria, British Columbia, then head for Alert 900 kilometers from the North Pole. Thereafter, the relay will visit Cape Spears, tip the most easterly of North America and then resume its path toward the West. She will visit La Belle Province on three occasions between November 10 and January 1.
"In 1988, organizers of the Games in Calgary had an impressive work to reach a maximum of communities across the country to spread the Olympic values, but we wanted to go much further. That is why it was very important to go to places like Kuujjuaq. "
Who will bear the flame?
Last August, the English daily The Globe and Mail information contained in a federal memorandum to the effect that Ottawa wanted the torch relay underlines Canada's contribution in the military mission in Afghanistan. According to the daily English-speaking, the Harper government asked the Canadian Olympic Committee that the first carriers of the torch or veterans of the conflict.
"There will perhaps, but nothing is decided for the moment," said Jim Richards. "We have reserved some places porters flame remarkable people ... people who have done something important for Canada. "
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