First time ever that Olympic Flame was lit indoors!!
There is so much to talk about that I can hardly think of what to say. The opening ceremonies were held in B.C. Place an indoor facility. There were some beautiful creative scenes , full of pyrotechnics. dance, music and song.kd lang performed a piece by Leonard Cohen called Hallelujah. kd was dressed in a beautiful cream three piece suit but I wondered what was up with the bare feet. Was it an allegroy of her start in life running bare foot on the prairies :>)) and rising to the top of the heap symbolized by her wonderful suit. Oh well maybe too far out LOL.
The ceremonies were long and hard for me to describe at any length. I did love the totem trees and the floor that was magically transformed into the Pacific Ocean which were beautiful but was taken aback by all the ice and snow allusions since there is very little snow here. The finale of the opening was the bringing in of the Olympic flag carried by 8 famous Canadians all dressed in white, Betty Fox, Terry Fox' mother, astronaut Julie Payette, singer Anne Murray, hockey great Bobbie Orr,actor Donald Sutherland,skater Barbara Ann Scott, Senator Romeo Dallaire and auto racer Jacques Villeneuve . And then the lighting of the torch symbolized by 4 torches which rose from the surface of the floor, one of which malfunctioned. So the other torches were lit without the fourth. The torch lighters were Steve Nash, Nancy Green Raines, Catriona Le May Doan, Rick Hanson and Wayne Gretsky.
Wayne went on to light the outside Olympic cauldron and it literally blew me away by its magnificence as it lit up the night sky.
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