As many of you will know the 1988 winter Olympics were held in Calgary and they are still very proud of this fact, so we were to expect a big celebration when the Olympic flame returned more than 20 years on. The olympic torch has been traveling across canada since October and celebrations in Calgary took place over three days whilst the torch travelled to key destinations in the city. One of these locations was the Olympic Plaza in downtown so this evening we headed off on the C-train into the city centre.
The Calgary Tower was transformed into an enormous flaming torch!
There was entertainment planned from 5:30pm with local artists preforming, local athletes that are due to compete in the 2010 winter Olympics and local medal winners from the last 25 years. The atmosphere was amazing with over 20,000 in attendance at the Plaza waiting to welcome the flame and the route through the city lined with thousands more.
At first we positioned ourselves on the last section of the route so that we could see the torch arrive, and when it did it was electric with everyone cheering and clapping, traffic blowing their horns and cameras everywhere.
Next we headed into the Plaza to watch all the entertainment
finishing with a large firework display.
We had a wonderful evening and are now looking forward to catching all the Canadian Olympians compete on the TV in the next couple of weeks!
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