Well....today is the Big Day!!!! Light the cauldron and get the games rolling! Big speculation up here on who the Final Torchbearer will be! This is the longest torch relay in history....about 45,000 km. There will be 150 torch runners in Vancouver alone today. Each runner runs about 300 meters.
Snow tech update. The Cypress Venue continues to be challenged by the warm rainy weather. Training was pushed back and I think about 150 truckloads of snow have been delivered so far. It's not cold enough for snow making. One novel approach has been tried (among many) that seems to help with the jumps on the aerial hill and the moguls course. They are actually putting dry ice in corrugated pipes buried beneath the snow. Each refill lasts about 12 hours and really seems to help keep the jumps cold and stable. So far the athletes seem to think it's working. Women's Moguls competition starts Saturday so that will be the real test!
The Sliding Venue (luge, bobsled and skeleton) is the fastest in the world with peak speeds reaching 153 kph. Very exciting but also very scary at those speeds. They are going to limit the speeds at the next Olympic Games to 135 kph. There was a bad accident earlier today on Thunderbird turn (#16) which is the fastest turn on the track. A Georgian athlete flipped and few out of the track and hit a post. Condition is currently unknown.
We have finished processing here at the Delta Hotel so today I will be moving to the Hilton Metrotown and spending the rest of the games at the Performance Services Center here in Vancouver...more on that later!
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