(ATR) The Vancouver 2010 flame heads south through Alberta on Day 78 of the torch relay after a day of rest.
Yesterday, the Vancouver Olympic torch relay rested in Edmonton the provincial capital after a triumphant welcome in the “city of champions.”
Doreen Ryan, who competed in speed skating at Squaw Valley 1960 and Innsbruck 1964 carried the flame to an evening celebration at Churchill Square outside Edmonton city hall on Wednesday, the relay's first full day in
Alberta.
Edmonton Oilers' head coach Pat Quinn, who coached Canada's 2002 gold medal winning men's hockey team, was a torchbearer. Around the Rings’ Bob Mackin was 160th of 164 carriers on the day after accepting the flame from Cheryl Gibson, a Montreal 1976 relay swimming silver medalist.
Protesters chanted “no Olympics on stolen native land” and “homes not Games” outside the Alberta legislature when the relay made a brief stop there earlier. No major incidents were reported.
Today, the torch relay departs Stony Plain where swimming Olympian Barbara Clark-Parolin will be a torchbearer.
The flame proceeds through Spruce Grove, Enoch, Devon, Beaumont and Leduc.
In Camrose, alpine skiing Olympian Cary Mullen will run with the flame and a welcome celebration will take place at Edgeworth Centre including musical performances.
The torch will take a ride in a 1950s police car through the small city located in Central Alberta.
The flame heads west to Wetaskiwin and south through the towns of Hobbema, Ponoka, Lacombe and Sylvan Lake.
The Olympic Torch reaches its final destination point of the day in Red Deer located in aspen parkland near the midpoint of the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor.
Rowing Olympian Barbara Armbrust is scheduled to run with the flame.
A welcome celebration will take place at Westerner Park. The festivities planned include musical performances, a parade of past Olympic Games Host Countries and demonstrations of current Olympic sports organized by local schools and sports clubs.
Over the weekend, the Olympic Flame will travel through 25 towns, be carried by three Olympians and a Vancouver 2010 cauldron lit by the flame will travel across the 100-year-old Lethbridge viaduct as it is pulled by a vintage handrail car.
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