Olympic Torch comes to Newmarket

The Flame is Coming… 

Newmarket is one of only 200 communities across Canada that has been selected as a celebration community for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. Newmarket will welcome the Flame at a community-wide celebration on December 18, 2009 at the Town of Newmarket Magna Centre (800 Mulock Drive). Festivities will begin at 9:45 a.m.

The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay route will be the longest domestic Torch Relay in Olympic history, stretching over 45,000 kilometres throughout Canada. Upon its conclusion, the Olympic Flame will have been welcomed in over 1,000 communities across the country.

Newmarket Olympic Torch route map
Ten reasons why you should attend Newmarket's Olympic Torch Celebration
Olympic Torch Celebration postcard
Vancouver 2010 Torch relay route
Vancouver 2010 fact sheet 

Media releases:

• Olympic Torch Relay media briefing to be hosted in Newmarket on December 16
• Newmarket Olympic Torch route revealed! (December 11, 2009)
• Newmarket announces Olympic Torchbearer (October 30, 2009)
• The Flame is Coming…to Newmarket (October 28, 2009)
• Newmarket gets fired up to receive Olympic Torch in 2009 (November 21, 2008)