Summer Camp Leads to Olympic Success

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As Canada still basks in the afterglow of the victorious Vancouver 2010 Winter Games, attention is finally being paid to the quality and importance of our country’s athletes. Some of our country’s newest Olympic heroes, such as Alex Bilodeau and Jennifer Heil, owe their success to their training at summer camp. After witnessing the unrelenting [...]

My Olympic View #10 – Thomas

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Day Fifteen Saw the biggest flag ever downtown on a building.  Very cool. Day Sixteen Olympics are very loud and sometimes when everyone is screaming it hurts my ears.  One of our home stay families just won a gold medal today and everyone is so happy.  Jacey Jay won it at Cypress right near my [...]

My Olympic View #9 – Thomas

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Day Twelve We went to the Olympics and saw the Happiness House with Coca-Cola and all the recycling that they do. A girl there was wearing clothing made from recycled plastic bottles and it looked like normal clothing.  We went to the Olympic Family and Friends place and watched a gold medal being won and [...]

My Olympic View #8 – Thomas

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Day Nine Sarah came over for a visit and dinner with us.  I showed her how to play my Nintendo game and gave her one of my GO-GOs.  She took it and tied it to her Olympic Pass.  She told me that she was very happy that her friends had done well in the Olympics [...]

My Olympic View #7 – Thomas

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Day Seven: Today is Sarah’s race day and everyone got up early to go to Cypress Mountain, which is very close to my school. We watched all of her races and many others too. It was very exciting and Sarah tried really hard and was talking to people on television. She did not make it [...]

My Olympic View #6 – Thomas

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It is the day before Sarah’s race.  Me and my mom take my friend Jonathon and the Conrad brothers to Grouse Mountain.  From there you can see our entire city and it is very high.  We go up a tram to get there.  That night we had Sarah`s Aunt and Uncle and another Mulgrave Host [...]

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