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EZaccess: Hello from Greece! Best wishes for the coming weekend! Come by and say a HI, whenever you can! Many and sweet kisses from me to you!!
Sujay: interesting quiz: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6IRi5rDmmc
Gail Anderson: Your enthusiasm is infectious! I've thoroughly enjoyed reading all of the blogs and appreciate the infor on contests and ways to get corporate sponsor pins! Keep up the AWESOME work!
Ed Dickson: Molson House sounds terrific but at $500 a person for passes I'll have to take a pass
Sharon Sirkis: I'm from Silver Spring, Maryland - USA and LOVE reading your blog. I'm 52 and will be 53 during the olympics! I always feel so special as the winter olympics are always at my birthday time! I wish I could purchase clothing but we in the USA can't purchase what we want from the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Store -- that is a true bummer!Thanks for keeping us all so informed. It's wonderful and a great escape from the crazy daily grind.
Kerri: Hi, Congrats on winning JotW. You are a very enthusiatic person for your subject :) and it makes your journal interesting to read! If you come by my site comment on the post, a Canadian view would be interesting.
Shawn: I hope everyone that attended the Olympian pin show in Richmond had a great time
tom hill: Hi there. I've sent you a couple of emails about pin swapping with no response - wondering they might be going to your spam folder by mistake? Hope to hear from you
lucid: visiting your blog, staying for a while :)

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Tuesday, October 20th 2009

7:54 PM

115 days to go – Another weekend of great achievements!

by 2010vanfan

Gah!  I’m looking at the news today and realizing that I didn’t mention much at all of the exciting wins that Canadian athletes had this weekend!  Bad me!  Hopefully this will make up for it!

I’ll start with Women’s Hockey.  We played the USA in Spokane on Friday and walloped them 5-2 in the second game of the six-game pre-Olympic series!  Meghan Agosta, Hayley Irwin, and Catherine Ward scored goals, as well as Caroline Ouellette who scored two!!  Way to go ladies!!  You totally rock!

115 - Womens Hockey win

Next up – it was a busy weekend in long track speed skating.  Cindy Klassen and Jeremy Wotherspoon both competed for the first time in a year.  Cindy, winner of 5 Olympic medals and Closing Ceremonies Flagbearer at Torino 2006 is back from surgery on both knees.  She qualified for the Canada World Cup team in 1,000m, 1,500m, and 3,000m distances.  Jeremy is back from a broken arm last season and is the world record holder for 500m.  He qualified for the Canada World cup team in 1,000m, but not in the 500m.  He says he hasn’t missed out on a qualification for the 500m for a long time and I suspect this will just increase his drive to succeed!  You can find the rest of the World Cup team qualifiers here on CTV’s Olympic page, and I’d like to say congratulations to Shannon Rempel, Christine Nesbitt, Kristina Groves, Jamie Gregg, Denny Morrison and Lucas Makowsky all of whom placed first in the competitions, sometimes in more than one distance!  Looks like quite the competition even amongst the Canadian team!!  It is going to be an amazing season for world competitions!

Cindy on the track

Cindy on the track

Figure skating was also on this weekend.  Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir won Gold in Ice Dancing in Paris at the first Grand Prix event of the season!  And Jessica Dubé and Bryce Davison won Silver in the Pairs event!  Congratulations to all of our competitors!  What a wonderful way to start the season!

Tessa and Scott - Ice dance skaters

Tessa and Scott - Ice dance skaters

And lastly (as far as I found anyway, I may have missed something… let me know if I have!).  The Howard rink got second place at the Bern Open in Switzerland on Sunday.  They had gone into the final game undefeated, but lost 7-6 to Norway in the final end.

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Are you collecting the Olympic and Paralympic coins that are in circulation right now?  I have previously written that Coin Collector’s Cards are available from Petro-Canada but I’ve also just learned that you can request one from the Royal Canadian Mint online!  If you’re interested click here and enter your details.  It will take 6-8 weeks for delivery.  If you would like one of the coloured Olympic Moments #1 coins I have some to share.  I will try to make sure I have some with me at the Olympic Superstore, but email me (2010vanfan@gmail.com) or comment in advance to make sure I have one with me!

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This is a neat new contest… It’s called ‘The Best of Us” and involves Olympic athletes putting up challenges to us, the people!  Some examples… Rafael Nadal, men’s tennis #2 seed, can pick up and hold 24 tennis balls in 30 seconds and Yelena Isibayeva, world champion in women’s pole vaulting, can do 7 cartwheels in 10 seconds.  All you need to do is submit a video answering one of the challenges that the athletes have issued, or a video of a challenge you issue yourself!  Everyone that submits a video is eligible to win a trip to either the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games or the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.  If you can beat one of the Olympic athletes you may be eligible Gold, Silver or Bronze prizes.  A Gold Prize is a t-shirt signed by an Olympic athlete, an Official Vancouver 2010 video game, and a “The Best of Us” poster.  Silver is a video game and poster and Bronze is a poster.  Sounds like a wonderful competition!  Can you take on “The Best of Us” and win??

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Speaking of contests, get your suggestions in for my ‘100 days of 2010vanfan‘ celebration by 7pm Tuesday, October 20th.  I will post up all the submissions tomorrow night and announce the winner of the Vancouver 2010 Pin Album (and of course invite everyone to the celebration!)!

Thank you merci for reading and sharing!

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Tuesday, October 20th 2009

3:53 AM

116 days to go – Aboriginal Art Show!

By: 2010vanfan
 
Ah… Sunday’s.  They’re generally a very lovely day.  And for the most part this Sunday was very lovely.  I had meant to be writing this from Smithers tonight, a little side-trip I need to do, but life doesn’t like to cooperate with plans and I am at home tonight with a sick dog (she’s already getting better).  I did manage to make it to the Aboriginal Art Show at Canada Place today, but only for a short time (again related to sick doggy).  The show was quite interesting, with a lot of different art forms.

There were a lot of talented artists at the show, many of whose works will be on display at Olympic venues across Vancouver and the other Venue Cities.  These artists will also be featured in the coffee table book O Siyam which is to be released in early November and is available for pre-sale now.

Corinne Hunt, one of the artist’s behind the design of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Medals was there.  Unfortunately (for me) she had a constant crowd of admirers,and I not enough time.  So I did not get to meet Corinne, but I did get to see some of her work up close, and it is truly beautiful.

Human Portrait figure candle wrap by Corrine Hunt

Human Portrait figure candle wrap by Corrine Hunt (please see note below about the images).

Debra Sparrow, the artist that designed the emblem that is on the Olympic Hockey jersey was there as was Jody Broomfield, the artist that designed the emblem of the Four Host First Nations.

Coast Salish woven blanket by Debra Sparrow

Coast Salish woven blanket by Debra Sparrow

Sea Raven mask by Jody Broomfield

Sea Raven mask by Jody Broomfield

It’s getting late again (yes, it always seems to be getting late, it’s ’cause I try to write after 7pm, when the Olympic clock ticks over, however I’m not very good at starting at 7pm!).  So I’m going to leave you with a few more images of the work of some of the other artists there that I haven’t had a chance to talk about before.  I will hopefully be able to share more with you about these artists, and others with works at Olympic venues, in the future.

'Four caribou on the march' by Alan Syliboy

'Four caribou on the march' by Alan Syliboy

Roaming Walruses by Andrew Qappik

Roaming Walruses by Andrew Qappik

Seal bowl by Dean Heron

Seal bowl by Dean Heron

Good night, bonsoir.

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Note on the images: The photos above are from the artist’s websites, or other sites as I did not feel comfortable taking photos of their work without permission and I really didn’t stay long enough to get to talk to anyone.  Plus, I think many of these images do the work better justice than my point-and-shoot in an oddly lit ballroom.  If you click on the image it should bring you to where I found it.

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