Torchbearer AA
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I can't wait to receive my tickets:D:D
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It does seem strange that she would say yes, given that she did not Open Calgary and having London two years down the road. So I have no idea why the invitation was accepted. Though this is a more desirable outcome than if she passed the duty to Charles instead of the GG.
I still don't believe she is going to open the Games, because a lot of newspapers did not write about it.
I believe it at the moment Buckingham palace is going to confirm it, whenever it may be.
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Sorry, I frogot to add the women's single results. Here is the proper table:
After 83 of 86 events:
Country #G #S #B T
United States 12 5 10 27
Norway 11 6 6 23
Germany 9 15 4 28
Austria 8 7 3 18
Canada 6 7 13 26
China 6 6 1 13
A few winter olympics further and we can also find China there in the top three countries
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I'd like to know what kind of sports we can play. I see only ski jumping so far.
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M. Once it gets out that the Queen is opening the games over a Canadian it will be VERY unpopular. Especially in Ontario and Quebec.
Not in BC?
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I carnt wait to see the Queen of Canada open the 2010 games!
It's the last chance I think for the Queen do declare open an olympic winter games.
If she also opens the London Olympics she in total declared three Olympics open, that's a record.
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At gamesbids.com we can read the Queen is going to attend the opening ceremonie on February 12th.
What's the source they used?
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I love the British monarchy. If she goes to Canada to open the Games or not.
Some of you said it's not possible to visit Canada twice in three years time.. well a look at the history:
2005
17–25 May Canada
2002
4–15 October Canada
1997
23 June – 2 July Canada
1994
13–22 August Canada
1992
30 June – 2 July Canada
1990
27 June – 1 July Canada
Only the last two decages.. so I think it is possible. But I don't think se is going to open the Games.
I hope she still lived in 2012 to celebrate the diamond jubilee and to open the London Olympics.
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27 countries have confirmed participation in the games:
Belgium, Belarus, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Great Britain, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, United States, Ukraine.
How do you know this? I am sure the Netherlands also will participate.. last week the chef de mission visited Vancouver and the speed skaters are already busy with their olympic preparations. So 28 countries;)
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I really don't see the monarchy being replaced in the UK...its not on the political agenda at all and "in general" there's no appetite among the public at large for any change. The British monarchy has no real power and essentially fulfills the same role as any other constitutional monarchy around Europe, whether that be Spain, Sweden or the Netherlands. Its not about the personalities involved, its having a benign institution which denies absolute power to everyone else, whether that be the military or politicians.
For Canada and the other "Dominions", the challenge is to maintain that status quo but at the same time to put some distance between the realities of today, and the perceived stigma of political and /or cultural inferiority towards a country, thousands of miles away, with little in the way of political or cultural leadership to offer in the modern world... and no desire to be in that position in any case, despite our silly escapade into Iraq.
I just think that you should just do it and stop kidding yourselves that how much you like the person wearing the crown has anything to do with it. Its the institution and the role it plays in your society in maintaining stability that you need to concentrate on. I suppose there's a lot to loose if you get it wrong, so you shouldn't be distracted by how much you like or dislike the Queen or her heirs and focus on what you put in place of the monarchy.
Personally I'd, and many people with me, do like the British monarchy so much because of the traditions. I think it's one of the few monarchies still using ancient traditions. What do the British people think about renewing old traditions like the Coronation, State opening of parliament, trooping the colour etc?
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I think that the Vancouver Olympics marks another climax in Canadian history and I wonder if the Canadians didn't want that the head of their monarchy be part of this history...
Maybe the Canadians who are here can tell if they think in that way.
But Sydney 2000 also was a milestone for Australia and the head of their monarchy was not a part of it.
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Its unlikely because the Queen will be in Canada in 2012 to mark the diamond jubilee.
Do you now already know about the Diamond Jubilee plans for the Queen?
I think the Queen opened only the 1976 Olympics and not Calgary anymore because of the Canada Act of 1982.
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Do you think Celine Dion is going to sing?
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I spoke to someone at CoSport yesterday and they were able to give me an order number for my orders which did not appear to go through.
It sounds much more promising. They said I may get confirmation sometime on 2/6. They also gave me the opportunity to cancel duplicated orders.
They guy on the phone said a hacker was responsible for their problems.
And the hacker now has our credit card details?
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The EXACT same thing happened to me! Is there anything we can do? I had gotten a lot of really good tickets!
Also happened to me. But yesterday they sent me an e-mail with the question if they need to process that order, so I now have the tickets.
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New Section numbers for 2009:
Why are not all seats numbered?
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Got notification yesterday.
I requested only three tickets, but I have all three tickets:D
So I'm happy
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Vanoc will produce about 1.6 million tickets, with 70 per cent of them going to the public. Of that, less than 30 per cent of that 70 per cent will go to people outside of Canada, he said. The vast majority has been reserved for Canadians, and he allowed that Vanoc could easily have sold more tickets for higher prices if it had chosen to.
I know it's normal to allocate 30% to the Olympic Family. So 49% of the total is going to Canada and 21% to the rest of the world.
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In Europe not any notifications until now. But they told us the send out the notifications this week, with last possible day this Friday.. so still 3 days time.
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Don't think they want to use a smaller venue, there are already tickets sold for the opening and closing ceremonies.
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If you go down to that link you can find this article, from yesterday.
January 5, 2009 6:31 PM
Washington: We're no British Columbia -- but we can be a stand-in
Posted by Ron Judd
A couple converging notes about Washington hills and trails serving as training grounds for 2010 Winter Games athletes:
-- Thirty-eight-year-old Roberto Carcelen, a runner and surfer from Peru, is training as a cross-country skier at Hyak, hoping to claim a spot in the Vancouver 2010 Games, The New York Times reports here. He's one of a growing number of athletes from warm-climate nations taking up winter sports in the hope of appearing in winter sport's marquee event.
-- The list of other athletes from unlikely places doing the same includes Kenya's Philip Boit, part of that memorable Nike publicity stunt to place runners from a desert climate in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano, Japan. Boit competed there, but much to everyone's surprise, stuck with the sport after Nike stopped writing checks. He competed in the Salt Lake and Turin Games, finishing 92nd in the 15K -- ahead of five competitors -- in the latter. And he has vowed to cap his career by competing in the Vancouver Games. To help prepare, he's used the great trail network in Washington's Methow Valley as a training course.
He might not be alone for long. Word from a couple different sources is that the U.S. Cross-Country Ski Team, which has medal hopes higher than they've been in a decade, also is looking at the Methow as a possible pre-Olympic training venue. More on this to come.
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That's what I was told by a LIVE person. I also want to know ASAP so I can make my own plans accordingly. Why would I make "Jan 19" up?
I don't know, it's only there are many different stories about the same thing.. that's also the conclusion from the Beijing ticketing process.
For the people interested in some numbers of the American ticket requests:
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Looks like 50,000 of the 1.6 million tickets were alloted to the U.S. so that shoots down talk that it's just Americans that are getting all the tickets:
It does not look like only 50,000 to the U.S. because this is only the first phase of the ticket sellings. So probably there are still 50,000 tickets more for the U.S. and that makes some 100,000... that's a lot more;)
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Where does the report say TODAY? Another one of your INACCURATE reports. I was personally told by a Cosport manager in the US, results for the US would not be made known until around Januar 19, 2009.
Please STOP SPREADING INACCURATE reports. Your credibility is really sinking into the negative zone.
January 19, are you sure?
The week before christmas we got a e-mail sent by Cosport stated we will know the results this week. We live in Europe and the tickets will be from Austria, Sweden, Bulgaia etc.. but why would they use another date for the US?
Or maybe they cancelled also again the resulsts for Europe but we don't know it until now.
Indeed I cannot find in the report today, but maybe this week is also still possible?
Olympic Ticket Designs Unveiled
in Vancouver 2010 Winter Games
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They told us December 2009 or early 2010.