加拿大奥委会主席Marcel Aubut宣布Canada Olympic Excellence Day非常成功。该次活动吸引了国际奥委会的高管、近三百名加拿大和国外奥林匹克运动员，以及成千上万的游客，走上街头庆祝。加奥委会组织了一个大型派对，庆祝位于500 René-Lévesque West，也就是蒙特利尔市中心的Canada Olympic House开张。这标志着加奥委会在加拿大首个举办奥运会的城市有了自己的办公室。
Canadian Olympic Committee (COC) President Marcel Aubut has declared Canada Olympic Excellence Day a huge success. The event mobilised the top leaders of the Olympic Movement, almost three hundred Canadian and international Olympians, and tens of thousands who came to celebrate on the street.
The COC threw a big party for the official opening of the new Canadian Olympic House at 500 René-Lévesque West in downtown Montreal. The COC now has a main office in Canada’s first Olympic city. The House will be visible in the sky and on the street thanks to the Olympic Rings permanently installed on the roof and on the front of the building, the first such instance in accordance with the new rules IOC President Thomas Bach enacted.
The COC wants to enable the public to touch the Olympic dream by bringing the Rings within its reach. The emotional event was accompanied by video projection mapping reminiscent of the finer moments in Canada’s Olympic history.
Thousands descended upon René-Lévesque Blvd to meet the hundreds of Olympians present and get autographs. Kids took advantage of the sport demonstrations featured in the Future Olympians Festival presented by Provigo to try out Olympic sports and get advice from Olympians and other elite athletes. The party went on late into the night and ended with a live show presented by Pages Jaunes.
International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach traveled to Montreal for the first time since he won a gold medal in fencing at the 1976 Games. Mayor Denis Coderre made him an honorary citizen and gave him the keys to the city. He was also awarded an honorary doctorate by the Université de Montréal near the Olympic venue where he competed thirty nine years ago. He made an emotional visit to the site with his wife Claudia.
The new Canadian Olympic House will be home to the COC’s Montreal office. It will be the first time the COC will have a main office in the heart of the country’s first Olympic city, centralizing sports development and athlete services. There will also be a sport science and technology centre that will allow people to walk in the shoes of an athlete and engage in virtual recreations of various sports. The Lausanne Room is a multifunctional centre that will offer unlimited possibilities for holding events, such as television, radio and multimedia productions. It will become a major attraction of which all Montrealers will be proud.
The Canadian Olympic Committee thanks all Canada Olympic Excellence Day sponsors. The Gold Partners are RBC, Bell, BCF Business Law, Cromwell, Pattison Sign Group, Yellow Pages, Provigo. The Silver Partners are Air Canada, Blackout Design, BMW, Molson, Grue Gray, GO2 Productions, Hudson’s Bay, Lemay, TransQuébec Audiovisuel, Video Equipment Rentals, XYZ. The Bronze Partners are Coca-Cola, CN, Dancon, Britton Electric, Generique Design, Ombrages, Raphael Brien Inc., P&R Desjardins, SoftBox Integration. The Government Sponsors are Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions, Gouvernement du Québec and Ville de Montréal.
“Canada Olympic Excellence Day showed how mobilized we are for sport and our athletes. Sport continues to transform our country every time we unite behind our ever more successful national team at the Olympic Games. We will continue to grow as a sports nation.” –Marcel Aubut, Canadian Olympic Committee President
