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CN Tower Glows Gold to Mark First Canadian Olympic Gold Medal on Home Soil

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / February 15, 2010

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cn tower gold medalThe CN Tower was illuminated in gold last night (and all through the night), in celebration of Alexandre Bilodeau and his historic gold medal win in the men's freestyle moguls at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. His first place win was the first ever by a Canadian at an Olympic games hosted in Canada.

Although Toronto is well over 3000km away, his incredible winning moguls run was watched and cheered on by Canadian's the nation over. It was a truly tense, nail-biting and exciting experience to watch his winning run, and his main competition come after him but ultimately not overtake his score.

blogTO reader dasymetric took this great photo (above) of the CN Tower at 4:30am Toronto time this morning.

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Canada now sits in 3rd in the medal count ranks with one gold, one silver, and one bronze.

Photos: dasymetric and Masteractor.

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jackandcokewithalime / February 15, 2010 at 12:59 pm
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Congrats Canada! Hopefully the first of many to come!

--jackandcokewithalime
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jack / February 15, 2010 at 01:19 pm
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maybe they should tell people about this cn tower thing on ctv news.. what's the point of lighting it up.. but nobody knew about it until after
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mr hate / February 15, 2010 at 02:50 pm
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Do they have bright orange lights that are the colour of Velveeta cheese?

That should be the reset colour.
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K / February 15, 2010 at 04:06 pm
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Did you know that a Toronto company is using brainwaves to also light up the CN Tower during the Olympics (as well as Parliament and Niagara Falls)?

From Wired: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/tag/interaxon/

You can learn more about the project here: www.interaxon.ca



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Mark Dowling / February 15, 2010 at 04:13 pm
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I was opposed to Toronto bidding for PanAm 2015 for several reasons, however the fact is that we have it now and it's time to see what can be done to do it right. I hope to see BlogTO and other city blogs looking at what Vancouver is doing for 2010 and how we can learn from their experience - I am going out next week and hope to bring back some ideas.
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albert / February 15, 2010 at 05:01 pm
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wildly epic
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Kenny / February 15, 2010 at 07:59 pm
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Watching Bilodeau's awesome run was exhilerating, he definitely deserved the gold.

Just as satisfying was seeing the smug Begg-Smith all grumpy.
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Dan / February 15, 2010 at 10:48 pm
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@Mark Dowling: it's refreshing to see someone who can "get over it", and move on to how make what he/she may have been opposed to better. Far too often have people been stuck in the rut of anti-(insert something) and have not done anything constructive to make it better except to complain, protest and be more negative. Thanks!

@Kenny: totally agree with both comments!
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Gordon aka masteractor / February 16, 2010 at 05:27 pm
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So proud to see the first win for Canada on our home soil in 33 years. Thanks for using my picture too!
Gordon
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Shelley / March 1, 2010 at 01:43 pm
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This was the view of the CN Tower driving home last night after the hockey game...it was just magnificent. Of course the picture doesn't do it justice as our city was lit up in a golden hue.
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Leo / March 1, 2010 at 04:19 pm
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The CN Tower was lit in gold for the entire duration of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Oympics representing our Canadian Men and Women Hockey dominance and our overall gold wins.

http://cntowerlive.com/2010/03/01/2010-vancouver-olympic-canadian-mens-hockey-gold-win/
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