Just in time for Canada Day, we caught up with some of Canadas best athletes and asked them to describe how they see Canada. You may even get some travel tips out of this one.
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A CHALLENGE AND A PROMISE
Own the Podium 2010 is a challenge to our nation to step up and show the world its very best. It is an unprecedented commitment to Canadian winter sport that spans virtually every discipline and region. It is a promise to our athletes that they will have solid support from training ground to finish line. And it is a bold statement of purpose, setting the highest possible standard for performance on the worlds most demanding stage.
Launched in January 2005, Own the Podium 2010 is a national sport technical initiative designed to help Canadas winter athletes win the most number of medals at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, and to place in the top three nations (gold medal count) at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games.
The initiative is a collaborative effort supported by all of Canadas winter national sport organizations (NSOs) and the major winter sport funding partners, including Sport Canada, the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), the Canadian Paralympic Committee (CPC), the Calgary Olympic Development ociation (CODA), the Government of British Columbia, the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC), and several of VANOCs corporate sponsors.
Canadians want to Own the Podium in 2010!
Learn more about this initiative at http://www.ownthepodium2010.com
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Vancouver Invites You To Be Part of the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games Experience.
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Vancouver 2010 is an open invitation for everyone to share in the Olympic and Paralympic journey, to find and step up to their own podium. It is about creating everyday champions, every day. Video Credit: Own the Podium 2010 NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT INTENDED Visit http://www.vancouver2010.com to learn more about the 21st Olympic Winter Games. Vancouver Invites You To Be Part of the 2010 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games Experience. …
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Raise a glass to supporting our athletes — Petro-Canadas glassware is back!
Millions of Canadians came together in 1988 during the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary to help athletes and coaches by purchasing over 50 million Petro-Canada glasses.
For the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, Petro-Canada is releasing a new set of glassware to support Canadas Olympic and Paralympic athletes.
Start your collection with the first glass in the series, the Capilano 16 oz water glass, for only $3.99 (plus taxes).
Plus, earn 10X Petro-Points™ on every glass you purchase!
Glasses are available at participating Petro-Canada locations and only while supplies last.
Collect the Set — Support Our Athletes
Each Petro-Canada Vancouver 2010 glass is a one-time only, limited edition keepsake. Collect the series of Petro-Canada Vancouver 2010 glasses leading up to the Games and help our athletes fuel their dreams!
Each limited edition glass sold helps support Canadas Olympic and Paralympic Teams at the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver.
Arc International, world renowned for its glassware collections, designed the Petro-Canada Vancouver 2010 glassware collection. Clear in colour, each piece of glassware displays a petroglyph on one side and the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games emblem embossed on the other.
The petroglyph on the glass is influenced by the ancient etchings and carvings found on rocks and caves across Canada. Its specific themes show the connection and harmony between humanity and nature in Canada.
This Vancouver 2010 glassware is exclusive to Petro-Canada. Glasses are only available at a participating Petro-Canada location while supplies last — start your collection today!
For more information: http://retail.petro-canada.ca/en/olympics/3194.aspx
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Vancouver Welcomes the World for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
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Like a relentless boxer, Patrick Chan is determined to pick himself off the mat and deliver his own knockout punch.
Time is something the 18-year-old has. Last year, Chan won the Canadian championships for the first time in only his third opportunity at the senior level. Now that Jeffrey Buttle retired following his gold medal at the 2008 world championships, Chan is Canada’s men’s figure skating heavyweight.
“It’s good for me mentally because I feel very confident,” he said. “I was the only men’s singles Canadian skater to be in the Grand Prix finals. The more I go to these competitions, the more experience and confidence I get. That’ll be a plus when I got to nationals. I’ll step on the ice in practice and in the warm up, knowing that I have much more experience that the others.”
Chan knows he now has centre stage. And while he tries to downplay it, he wants to be king of the ring.
“I try not to think about the extra stress,” he said. “I just want to go and treat it as if it I didn’t even win a medal last year. People are going to be watching me of course, but I have to go and show what I have to do.
“I’ll and keep focused and not get carried away. I’m there to do a job.”
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Vancouver welcomes the world for the 21st Olympic Winter Games in 2010.
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A commercial for Petro-Canada’s new 2010 Olympic Glassware.
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