Olympic Torch Relay
Canadian volleyball Olympian Monica Hitchcock of St. John, N.B., won’t soon forget her participation in the 2010 Olympic Torch Relay on Monday evening in Dieppe, N.B.
“It brought back some great memories from when I competed at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles,” said Hitchcock, who was recently on the Team New Brunswick mission staff for the Canada Games in PEI. “It was also great to see the excitement of the other torch bearers in the van we were traveling in before we got dropped off. We shared some great stories.”
…Hitchcock was a national team member from 1977 to 1983. She also competed at one world championship and three Pan Am Games and World University Games. She was inducted into the New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame in 1996.
Three other Canadian Olympic volleyball players will be also participate in the Torch Relay later as it criss-crosses the nation over the next few months culminating with the lighting of the Olympic flame at the Vancouver\Whistler Winter Games.
They are: Terry Gagnon of Edmonton of the 1992 Olympic men’s team who’ll run in Windermere, B.C., on January 22, Paul Gratton of Ottawa of the 1984 Olympic men’s team who’ll run January 3 in Thunder Bay, Ont., and Lori-Ann Mundt of Winnipeg of the 1996 women’s Olympic team who’ll run January 9 in her birthplace Yorkton, Sask.
“It brings back the whole fever of the Olympics,” said Hitchcock. “The players are going to enjoy it tremendously. It promotes unity, friendship and health.”
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