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VICTORIA, British Columbia (Reuters) – The Olympic flame arrived in Canada on Friday, beginning a 45,000-km (28,000-mile) trek that will see it crisscross the country before it arrives at next year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The flame was handed to Canadian Olympic champions Catriona Le May Doan and Simon Whitfield, the first torch bearers, during a ceremony rich in Canadian aboriginal symbolism in the Pacific Coast city of Victoria, British Columbia. “This is for all of Canada, we’re overwhelmed,” speedskater Le May Doan said after the event, which drew roughly 5,000 people to the muddy lawn of the British Columbia Legislature and along the relay route through the streets of Victoria. The 106-day run will be the longest domestic torch relay in Olympic history, involving some 12,000 torch bearers and passing through 1,037 communities before the flame’s arrival at the 2010 Games’ opening ceremony on February 12. The flame, enclosed in a lantern, was flown to Canada from Greece on a
* 45,000 km journey to 2010 Games in Vancouver * Longest domestic torch run in Olympic history * Heavy security for torch over protest threats By Allan Dowd VICTORIA, British Columbia, Oct 30 (Reuters) – The Olympic flame arrived in Canada on Friday to begin a 45,000-km (28,000-mile) trek that will criss-cross the country on its journey to next year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver. A Canadian military aircraft transporting the flame from Greece touched down under mostly cloudy skies in the Pacific Coast city of Victoria for the ceremony to ignite the first torch to be used in the 106-day relay. The run will be the longest domestic torch relay in Olympic history, involving some 12,000 torch bearers and passing through 1,037 communities before the flame’s arrival at the 2010 Games’ opening ceremony on Feb. 12. The flame, enclosed in a lantern, was to be transported from the airplane to British Columbia’s legislature in downtown Victoria for the beginning of the torch run. The careful plan
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