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Nick Miller's List: olympic torch
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- Over 100 days in length.
- Over 1,000 communities and places of interest where torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame.
- Nearly 200 celebrations hosted by communities in every province and territory.
- Approximately 90 per cent of Canada’s population will be within a one-hour drive of experiencing the Olympic Flame.
- Over 45,000 kilometres will be travelled.
- Extensive tour of the North including a planned visit to Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanently inhabited community in the world.
- 12,000 people will have the honour of being an Olympic Torchbearer and will help carry the flame to Vancouver, a majority of whom will be selected through public programs.
- Presenting partners Coca-Cola and RBC are leading the public torchbearer application process and invite Canadians to share stories about how they are building healthier individuals and create a stronger Canada. The RBC's contest closed July 15, 2009 and the Coca-Cola's contest closed August 17, 2009.
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an equipment malfunction that happened just as the Olympic cauldron was about to be lit, left one of the final four torchbearers Catriona LeMay Doan, standing there with a torch but nothing to light.
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only 3, of the 4 sections surrounding the Olympic cauldron managed to emerge from below the stadium
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Feb 23, 10
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. The torch was still lit anyway - although it had to be lit again at a second location
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The Olympic torch malfunction caused a delay for a few minutes, while mechanics tried to get the fourth pillar up, which Doan would have lit. Since they couldn't do it, they had to get the other three bases and the Olympic cauldron out there, and improvise the lighting. Eventually they were able to do it, leaving the malfunction as a brief setback - albeit the worst one they could have.
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