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London 2012 outlines vision for welcoming the Olympic Flame to the UK
26 May 2010The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today announced that the Olympic Flame will arrive in the UK on Friday 18 May 2012 and will travel around the UK for 70 days, arriving in London the weekend before the 2012 Games begin.
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Arlen Redekop, PNG
The love story between Shira and Jeff Standfield began on the water.
The two former Paralympians, and elite adaptive rowers, first met while training for the 2006 World Rowing Championships in the U.K. and married in September.
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More Images » Debra Brash, Times Colonist
VICTORIA ' Trevor Greene won a gold medal Saturday in the hearts of those who watched the former Canadian Forces reservist push his wheelchair slowly down Lyall Street in Esquimalt, moving the Paralymic flame on the first of a 31-leg tour of Greater Victoria.
No one put more effort into the task than Greene, a former Canadian Forces reservist who was struck in the head with an axe in Afghanistan in 2006, leaving him paralyzed and unable to breathe without assistance.
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PAT McGRATH, Canwest News Service
OTTAWA ' Dozens of schoolchildren, politicians and the public cheered Canada's torchbearers who carried the Paralympic flame in a relay to Parliament Hill after it was ignited earlier just a few hundred metres away on Ottawa's Victoria Island by Aboriginal firekeepers of the Pikwakanagan and Kitigan Zibi Algonquin bands.
More than 600 torchbearers will carry the flame leading up to the March 12 start of the Paralympic Games in Vancouver, and Ottawa was the first stop. The flame will be taken to Quebec City Thursday, to Toronto on Friday and later to several communities in British Columbia, before the Paralympic cauldron is lit at BC Place in Vancouver, marking the beginning of the 10-day Winter Paralympics.
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12 Feb 2010London 2012 Organising Committee Chair Seb Coe carried the Olympic Flame earlier today on the final day of the Vancouver 2012 Torch Relay.
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More Images »Ric Ernst, PNG
METRO VANCOUVER - The Olympic flame is winding its way through the North Shore today, travelling by land, water and air.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) - U.S. golden girl and Olympic downhill favorite Lindsey Vonn dropped a bomb on the Winter Games on Wednesday with news of a painful shin injury that may take her out of contention for a clutch of gold medals.
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Two days before the Feb 12-28 Games open in Vancouver, organizers did, however, get a welcome break in the weather with flakes falling on snow-starved freestyle skiing and snowboard venue Cypress Mountain.
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Ian Lindsay, PNG
NEW WESTMINSTER ' When you live in a small town, like I do, you know what brings a community together. It might be your town's annual parade, or the news that a developer is tearing down the theatre to make way for a superstore.
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More Images » Mike Siegel, MCT
METRO VANCOUVER - The Olympic torch relay passed through White Rock early Tuesday morning as residents lined the sidewalks waving Canadian flags while dressed head to toe in red and white.
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More Images »Mark van Manen, PNG
Tears streaming down her cheeks, Shirley Lewis made history Wednesday as she carried the 2010 Olympic torch into the traditional territory of the Four Host First Nations for the first time.
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