Patriot Hearts (49 page)

Tovey, Bramwell, 197–98

transportation, 80, 119, 216, 228,
234, 323.
see also
Vancouver Airport Authority

Tremblay, Réjean, 244–45, 248–49

Trudeau, Pierre Elliot, 21–23

Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, 212

TSN
, 265

Turin Winter Olympics, 2006, 132–33,
139, 177, 224

U19 World Cup Women’s Soccer, 44

Ulster Volunteer Force, 18

United Nations (
UN
), 160–61

U.S. Olympic committee, 238

Vancouver Airport Authority, 300–302

Vancouver, B.C., 49–50, 118, 282

Vancouver Board of Trade, 111

Vancouver Canucks, 5, 79, 91, 255

Vancouver Convention Centre, 108, 119

VANCOUVER ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (VANOC)

board members, 80–81, 98–100

CEO
selection process, 83–88

disbanding, 322–23

executive members, 89–92

formation of, 79–80

Furlong as
CEO
, 324

IOC
support, 218–19

mission and values, 96–97

Olympic Truce, 160–61

Own the Podium (
OTP
), 271–73, 277

partnership with Quebec, 170

team building, 95–97

Vancouver Paralympic Centre, 312

Vancouver Police, 242–43, 254, 323

“Vancouver” song, 292

Vancouver Sun
newspaper, 61, 82, 86,
114, 118–19, 296

Vancouver Symphony Orchestra,
197, 198

VANCOUVER-WHISTLER 2010 BID CORPORATION

formation, 32–33

international strategy, 43–44

mini-bid book, 41–42, 48

presidency, 41

Salt Lake City Olympics, 2002,
39–41

Vancouver bid presentation, 53–55

winning the bid, 74–75

Vancouver/Whistler 2010 Bid Society, 31

VanderBeek, Kelly, 269–70

VANOC
.
see
Vancouver Organizing Committee (
VANOC
)

Victoria, B.C., 154–55, 165–66, 308

victory ceremony, 238

video bid presentation, Prague, 63–64

Vigneault, Gilles, 184–85

Villeneuve, Jacques, 193

Virtue, Tessa, 280–81

volunteers, 239, 256–58, 265, 279,
301, 302, 303, 315, 322

Walsh, Andrew, 177

Walters, Tom, 166

weather, 213, 229, 231–33, 255

Weir, Mike, 41

Western Canada Games, 28–29

Westin Bayshore, 200

“What Dreams May Come” speech,
60–61

WHISTLER, B.C.
see also
Sea to Sky Highway

Athletes’ Village, 281–82

cauldron lighting ceremony, 225

Celebration Plaza, 283, 313, 316

events and weather, 229–30

inukshuk gift, 167

medical clinic, 279

Paralympics, 309, 313–14

venue construction, 117

Whistler Sliding Centre, 207,
220–23, 224

Whitfield, Simon, 166

Wickenheiser, Hayley, 214, 279

Willem-Alexander, Prince, 55, 75, 292

Williams, Brian, 209

Wilson, Donna, 92, 229

Winter sports federations, 274

Woolstencroft, Lauren, 310, 313

Wright, Monique, 90

Wright, Terry, 43, 89, 106, 124–25,
177, 232, 235

Yanofsky, Nikki, 183

Young, Gary, 30

Young, Neil, 296

Yukon, 167

Zamboni ice-cleaning machine, 255

Zarek, Dick, 237