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Well, it had to be expected. In 2002, Trent Evans, the Canadian official ice-keeper at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics was approached by members of the Canadian team who pointed out that the was no centre ice "button" on the design laid down by the Salt Lake designers. He set about to remedy the situation and while he was at it, decided to embed a one dollar coin in the ice.
Both the men's and women's hockey teams won gold, the Loonie story got exposed and a tradition was born. The Salt Lake City Loonie is now in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
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Last night on Global TV, being broadcast from Whistler all week as part of the "Two Years to Go" 2010 Olympic celebrations, John Furlong, the VanOC CEO confessed that "lots" of Olympic Loonies were being embedded in all the Olympic venues being built in Vancouver and Whistler. In fact, he confessed to tossing in a few himself and seeing "many" others doing the same thing.
So is this going to be an unfair advantage to the Canadian Team. Do we care?
Millions have been spent by the Government and private corporate sponsors to train the teams coming into these games and the results are being seen in the medals being won by Canadians in this year's skiers and sliders all over the world. We're in great shape for 2010 and having a few hundred Loonies in the concrete of the various venues can only add to the karma.
Maybe the Canucks should try it.
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