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Goal 4 for Canada's sledge hockey team!
I just saw my first ever sledge hockey game–Canada vs. Italy–at UBC‘s Thunderbird Arena and I’ll make this short: get online right now and snatch up the last few remaining tickets for this great Paralympic sport!
There are only a few games still available and you won’t get to see Canada play, but this is the best fun you’ll have for $20 for a long time.
Oh, and the final score was 4-0. Go Canada!
Sumi wows the crowds at UBC
Scared the heck out of me this morning when a little girl ran shrieking past me outside the Thunderbird Stadium at UBC. But it turned out she was just a giddy groupie rushing to hug her 2010 Paralympics mascot hero, Sumi.
There weren’t any line-ups to get into the Canada vs. Italy sledge hockey game (just a steady stream of human traffic), but there was a big crowd lined up behind a blue rope for a chance to pose with the black bear/thunderbird/orca whale hybrid.
I admit: I’ve been worried that I might have exhausted my supply of Olympic spirit during February’s party. So I was a little surprised by the wave of sentiment that washed over me as I watched hordes of red-dressed kids cheering “Go Canada Go!” and waving their maple leaf flags as they waited to embrace a creature as real to them as their parents.
Seems love is all around. Again.
14-time Olympic gold medalist Chantal Petitclerc takes the Paralympic flame at Robson Square.
Only in the wake of an event like the Olympics could this scene make sense.
I was in Robson Square this afternoon for the opening day of the Paralympic Games, which have brought 600 athletes from 175 nations to town for 10 days of competition. At the base of the city’s now famous urban zipline, strung high above downtown Vancouver, a queue had formed. I watched as a group of girls asked the attendant how long the wait would be. His answer: 2 1/2 hours.
“That’s not bad at all,” one of them said, right before sprinting to the back of the queue.
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Olympic Fun without the Lines: Paralympic Opening Day in Robson Square
Canamade - Made-in-Canada Winter Market
Visitors and locals alike will love shopping for Canadian hand-made goods at Canamade, a winter market in historic Gastown dedicated to bringing Canadian goods to the forefront during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
A huge success during the Olympics, Canamade is all set to reopen this Friday, March 12, in honour of the Paralympic Games.
Like an all-Canadian Portobello West, Canamade features a huge variety of goods, from fine art and jewelry to soaps, fashion, home decor, glassworks and more.
Canamade Winter Market runs from March 12 – 21, 2010 at 151 West Cordova St.
The Olympic spirit hasn’t left Vancouver yet! In fact, it’s just getting ready to soar again with the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games, March 12 – 21.
To kick off the Games, the Paralympic Torch will arrive in Vancouver on March 10 and complete its journey to the Paralympic Opening Ceremonies on March 12 via a 24-hour relay through downtown Vancouver, starting on March 11.
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