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Yukon at Vancouver 2010
Yukon is proud to be a Contributing Partner of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Find out more about Yukon at Vancouver 2010:
- Torch Relay
- Youth Ambassadors
- Cultural Olympiad
- 2010 in Yukon schools
- Inuit and Dene Games - Application form is now available!
Torch Relay
October 30, 2009 to February 12, 2010
The Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games truly are Canada’s Games. The 2010 Olympic Torch Relay will be the longest in history to be contained within a single country.
More than 45,000 km will be travelled, including many stops in Canada's North, in particular a planned visit to Alert, Nunavut, the northernmost permanently inhabited community in the world.
In Yukon, the Olympic Flame will travel through four communities:
- Whitehorse - Day 5, November 3, 2009
- Kwanlin Dün First Nation - Day 5, November 3, 2009
- Dawson City - Day 6, November 4, 2009
- Old Crow - Day 6, November 4, 2009
See an interactive map of the route (external link).
Read the Yukon government news release:
Yukon supports Olympic flame community celebrations, November 3, 2009
Read stories from the road, highlights of the Olympic Torch Relay.
Follow Yukon Youth Ambassadors at the Olympics on facebook!
Youth from across the northern territories will be youth ambassadors at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. They will be able to experience the Olympic Games, network with other youth and volunteers, gain skills and training in tourism hospitality, develop leadership skills and gain confidence to be role models and leaders in their own communities when they return from the Games.
The deadline for youth ambassador applications has passed.
For more information contact Yukon government's Sport and Recreation Branch, 867-667-5254.
Cultural Olympiad
Cultural Olympiad 2009 - February 1 March 21, 2009
Cultural Olympiad 2010 - January 22 March 21, 2010
Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad is a celebration of the contemporary imagination. A series of three multi-disciplinary festivals that grows in scope and scale from 2008 through 2010, this is the first time an Olympic Winter Games has hosted a Cultural Olympiad two years before Games time.
Three Yukon artists have been selected to perform in the Cultural Olympiad 2009: Kim Beggs, The First People's Performances and Don Watt Snow Carvers.
Government of Yukon Photo: Members of the First Peoples Performances perform in Ottawa in 2009. They have been chosen to perform in the Cultural Olympiad 2009.
Read the Yukon government news release:
Yukon performers in Cultural Olympiad 2009 Announcer, February 2, 2009
Sharing the Dream is a website by the British Columbia government's Ministry of Education.
Through Sharing the Dream, students can participate in activities and discussions with students from other parts of the country and the world and teachers can access resources to help plan and implement lessons and activities focused on the spirit of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
It is one way Yukon students will be able to connect with the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Go to Yukon's Sharing the Dream website.
The website has many ways for students to become engaged in the 2010 Winter Games, like student webcasts.
There are also lesson starters and plans for Yukon teachers to use in their classrooms.
You can also visit Vancouver 2010's Education website, with even more programs, resources, lesson starters and an online forum to help teacher's connect their students with the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
Follow traditional Inuit and Dene games at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics on facebook!
Traditional Inuit and Dene Games are an integral part of northern culture and will be showcased at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games. A team of northern athletes will participate in a demonstration of Inuit and Dene games at venues throughout Vancouver.
The Yukon contingent will consist of a team of 12 athlete/demonstrators and two coaches/managers. Youth will have training in hospitality, performing, engaging audiences, volunteer and organizational skills in addition to training opportunities in their own traditional sports before heading to 2010.
Yukon traditional athletes will have the opportunity to come back as role models to their communities and will be able to help develop traditional games for education and competition.
For more information contact Yukon government's Sport and Recreation Branch, 867-667-5264.
Photo: Government of Yukon photo