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SHARE THE FLAME
The Official Retrospective Book of the Olympic Torch Relay

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istonishing experience.
For 88 days in the winter of 1987—1988, the Olympic flame was carried across Canada, passed proudly from runner to runner in the longest Olympic relay ever. This book is about that relay and some of the nearly 7,000 lottery winners and chosen Canadians who advanced the torch, kilometre by kilometre, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Calgary, Alberta, where it burned throughout the XV Olympic Winter Games.
In the outstanding pictures by 60 of Canada's finest photographers, the evocative words of well-known journalists and the writer, who was with the relay from Signal HÜ1 to McMahon Stadium, Share the Flame portrays that historic journey. It carries you along with the torch on its 18,000-kilometre trek, through cheering cities and down cheerless highways, in bhzzards and rainstorms, on sunny days... Tovább

Fülszöveg

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Mm''I'-''''i'

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SHARE THE FLAME
The Official Retrospective Book of the Olympic Torch Relay

You are about to shi
istonishing experience.
For 88 days in the winter of 1987—1988, the Olympic flame was carried across Canada, passed proudly from runner to runner in the longest Olympic relay ever. This book is about that relay and some of the nearly 7,000 lottery winners and chosen Canadians who advanced the torch, kilometre by kilometre, from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Calgary, Alberta, where it burned throughout the XV Olympic Winter Games.
In the outstanding pictures by 60 of Canada's finest photographers, the evocative words of well-known journalists and the writer, who was with the relay from Signal HÜ1 to McMahon Stadium, Share the Flame portrays that historic journey. It carries you along with the torch on its 18,000-kilometre trek, through cheering cities and down cheerless highways, in bhzzards and rainstorms, on sunny days and cold moonlit nights. En route it introduces you to the Canadian heroes and instant celebrities who held the torch high: 76-year-old Olympian race-walker Ferd Hayward, and figure skater Barbara Ann Scott-King, who shared the first, emotional, kilometre; Heather Freer, who bore a daughter only hours after she bore the torch in Sarnia; Quebec's gold-medal diver, Sylvie Bernier, who led the cavalcade into her proud province; four-year-old Bruno Levesque, of Jacipiet River, New Brunswick, who at four years was the youngest runner; and Man in Motion Rick Hansen, in Vancouver, who added one more kilometre to his round-the-world marathon.
This book is the story of a record-making, heart-glaildening relay. But it's more than that. It is proof of a spirit aflame in Canadians—a pride that burns for our lanil, our heroes, our aecomplish-inents and our own indomitable, ordinary selves.
That is the experience you are about to share.

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