Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics - Around Town
In preparation for the 2010 Winter Olympics Vancouver put on it's best face. I have lived in this city since 1953 and I have never seen this city so alive. Even Expo 86 didn't come close to the excitement and sheer number of public exhibitions and free events. This is but a very small smattering of what was a very exciting and unforgetable once-in-a-life experience.
Granville Street housed many art exhibits, people flew over the Robson Square Skating Rink on a zip line, False Creek and Yaletown were the sites for the Athletes Village, Canada House, Live City and many more free public venues including Canada Hockey House and B C Place where the opening, closing and victory celebrations took place, Coal Harbor housed the International Broadcast Centre (now the Vancouver Convention Centre) and the Olympic Cauldron just to name a few. Olympic fervor was everywhere you looked in the downtown core, and it was tremendous fun.
daytime dragon
odd birds
resurrection
aboriginal lights
strange canoe
blue dome
street light trees
red and white
granville alive
reflected pride
australian fiest
go canada
red and gold lanterns
canada everywhere
shinny
saxony house
olympic cauldron at night
victory celebration
five golden rings
broadcast centre
inter nation pride
inukshuk
wall of flowers
daytime olympic cauldron
balcony pride
