Olympic Torch To Be Here Today and Tomorrow

Friday, April 03, 2009 03:56 AM

Prince George, B.C.- You have two opportunities to cosy up to the 2010 Olympic Torch.

RBC Olympic Athlete Anthony Wright will be in Prince George today and tomorrow with a 2010 Olympic Torch. It is part of an RBC celebration to promote and celebrate the Olympic spirit and the torch relay.

Anthony Wright is a Field Hockey player from Vancouver. He finished first at the 2007 Pan Am

Games which earned him a spot at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, where he placed tenth.

The Royal Bank will provide two opportunities for you to come out and meet Anthony and have your picture taken with the torch,

The first opportunity happens this afternoon at the Main Branch of the Royal Bank on Victoria from 1:30 to 2:45,

Then on Saturday, Anthony and the Torch will be at the Massey Drive branch from 9:30 to 11:30

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Posted on Friday, April 03, 2009 03:56 AM in News by 250 News

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Comments

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on April 3 2009 7:10 AM

Did the Canucks win last night, I forgot to check.

Posted by: highlanderpg on April 3 2009 7:39 AM

nope lost 6-5 in a shootout.

Posted by: gus on April 3 2009 7:43 AM

They flamed out then......

Posted by: gus on April 3 2009 7:44 AM

No torch light parade for them, eh?

Posted by: gus on April 3 2009 7:46 AM

I hear it is number 382

Posted by: Resident on April 3 2009 9:59 AM

Pretty important thing, this olympic torch.
I now see lottery money is going to support the olympics. This money could be far better spent on health care in BC rather than giving it to Vanoc to have a 2 week party in Vancouver that will not benefit the majority of BC residents.
Seems we were told the olympics would not cost the taxpayers in BC. Reminds me of Drapeau's statements in regards to Expo 67.

Posted by: The_grandinquisitor on April 3 2009 10:50 AM

The torch is really two things. (1) a fancy vacum cleaner that will suck up your money and (2) a club to hit us over the head driving us senseless into believing that the olympics are good for BC and won't push the province into bankruptcy

Posted by: kitkat on April 3 2009 12:03 PM

The torch is in town ehh? Who cares? Thanks for the score of the game last night, I was just going to check.

Posted by: Outwest on April 3 2009 1:00 PM

Let all the Lemmings join the parade!

Posted by: Quaddin on April 3 2009 3:33 PM

Ah Yes. The running of the Olympic Torch relay.

Where did it start?

Doctor Carl Diem. He was responsible for running the infamous 1936 Berlin games AKA The Nazi Games and it was he, in fact, who devised the whole torch bearing scheme.

He sold to Josef Goebbels - in charge of media coverage of the Games - the idea that 3422 young Aryan runners should carry burning torches along the 3422km route from the Temple of Hera on Mount Olympus to the stadium in Berlin.

Just a bit of history to ponder!

Posted by: gus on April 4 2009 9:18 AM

There is no doubt that Goebbels understood mass marketing ..... if only he had just been marketing cars