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Fans watch live Olympic action on LiveCity Downtown's big screen.
After a wild weekend of celebration, it’s the start of the first full week of Olympic action in Vancouver. The home-soil Olympic jinx is finally over (on Sunday, skier Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada’s first gold ever on Canadian turf). And – even more momentous than that – after weeks of clouds and gloom, the sun is actually shining (at least for the moment).
A member of The Flying Canucks, a trampoline troupe, performs across from the Vancouver Public Library.
It’s Day Two of the biggest party Vancouver has ever had. But you wouldn’t know it in the Vancouver Public Library. The library, like most downtown businesses, has opted to remain open during the Games. And while the world celebrates outside, students in here are buckling down over textbooks for chemistry and English as a Second Language. Welcome to real life in the Olympic City: a strange dance of the mundane and the surreal.
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Real Life in the Olympic City . . . Sort of
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