When the Olympics were in Salt Lake in 2002 they added the "Olympic Park" to Rice Eccles Stadium (the football stadium at the U). Yesterday was the 10th anniversary of the opening ceremonies and the city had a relighting of the Olympic Cauldron in the Park. Justin and I walked over right after school (the football stadium is right across the street from the Chem building). Unfortunately, the morning news anchor was not very accurately informed because we waited over an hour and a half before the ceremony actually started!
Olympic Park.
Hoberman Arch; this was behind the stage where the athletes
received their medals and is now part of the Park.
These are just some cool shots I took before they let us in.
Powder and Coal; two of the Games' mascots.
The Cauldron.
The Salt Lake Games are well known for the amazing opening ceremony that went off without a hitch. (Hello, it was MoTab singing John Williams!!!!) Unfortunately the relighting didn't go off so well...
You can imagine this was quite the disappointment for Justin and me after waiting for so long but we were supposed to drive down to Lehi that night to see Lisa, Travis and Anistyn so we decided to leave. As we reached our car however we saw this!! And ran back.
Pretty, no? It didn't burn very long (probably because they let so much gas out trying to ignite the flame in the first place) but a very nice couple nearby took this picture for us.
Salt Lake is trying to host the Winter Games again. Yay for 2022!
*Hopefully we'll be done by then and (sadly) will miss the Games. Again.
2 comments:
How fun! I didn't know that they were doing anything for the anniversary til the news that night. That would have been fun to go see! If they have the Olympics here in 2022 YOU will be there!
So cool! You guys look very cold. Come to FL. I won't stop requesting that until you do come.
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