Lil’wat First Nation Gives Blessing to the Paralympic Flame
“I thought about how fun it was just to be holding it and running with it,” he said, his red-mittened hands clasping the steel-blue torch after his run. “You’ve got to have a good spirit and always be happy.”
And if the hundreds of people who turned out to welcome the Paralympic torch in the resort are any indication, it looks as if Whistler is set to do just that when the Games get under way on Saturday.
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The Whistler flame was lit and blessed by the Lil’wat First Nation on Monday morning.
Unlike the Olympic flame, which hails from Greece, the Paralympic flame has no ancestral home, so the flame is kindled at each of 13 celebration sites along the route by local First Nations groups.
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Someone I spoke with today explained how they were upset that the Olympic flame was not blessed by anyone from the Four Host Nations. The last sentence quoted above cleared up my own curiousity and certainly makes sense. You can read the full article here.
