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Olympic Flame entrusted to Canada for Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games at handover ceremony in Greece

In less than 24 hours from now in Victoria, BC, the flame will emerge from a Canadian Forces CC-150 Polaris (Airbus A-310) aircraft in a miner's lantern and arrive on Canadian soil for the start of its 106-day journey across the second largest country... Full Article at US Olympic Team

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  1. Forty-five-thousand kilometres and 106 days later, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay will end in Vancouver with the lighting of the Olympic Cauldron on February 12, 2010 ... Along the way, 12,000 people will have proudly carried the Olympic Flame and brought Canadians and the entire world with them...
    – Gregor Robertson (politician) SOURCE: US Olympic Team 1 month ago
  2. The arrival of the torch represents the start of our Olympic season and the culmination of a decades-long Olympic dream for Whistler
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  3. The growing excitement in communities across our country is remarkable with the Olympic Flame just hours away from its official Canadian welcome and the start of the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay ... This flame, as entrusted to us by the people of Greece, will spread goodwill and pride as it connects Canadia...
    – Gary Lunn SOURCE: US Olympic Team 1 month ago
  4. We entrust this sacred flame to our Canadian friends for safekeeping and wish them spectacular and successful Olympic Games as they welcome the world's best winter athletes in 2010
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