Olympic games 2010 updates

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Article tags youth olympic games. Latest News. Latest Videos. The only post Olympics the cauldron has not been lit for is the Summer Games, for reasons unclear. However, the cauldron has been lit for the past four Olympic Games Sochi , Rio , PyeongChang and Tokyo , with sponsorship from FortisBC, which paid thousands of dollars for the technical and natural gas costs.

The cauldron was built by FortisBC in through a legacy investment and partnership with the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Organizing Committees. Usually, officials tout the lighting as a celebration of the athletes. FortisBC told Glacier Media it has not yet considered sponsoring the flame and would have to take direction from PavCo at any rate. We will keep you apprised of the plans as they are announced. Historically, the Olympic cauldron in Jack Poole Plaza has been lit to celebrate the Olympic athletes.

PavCo and the province of B. The plaza has indeed become a ground for competing interests — those associated with the Chinese Communist Party and pro-democracy activists.

It was Oct. On Nov. Fenella Sung, a core member of Vancouver-based advocacy group Canadian Friends for Hong Kong, also supports keeping the cauldron dark and speculates pro-Beijing groups could lobby to light the cauldron and may even pitch sponsorship. Sung says if athletes are going to compete, then not giving the CCP a platform, such as with a cauldron lighting, is the least Canadians can do.

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