MEMORY LANE: Where were you when we won the 2010 Olympic Bid?

[jsbertram]

Right in the thick of it.

A bunch of us met at a friends place in Yaletown and walked up to GM place. This was WAYY TOOO EARLYYY in the morning, so we fortified ourselves with some Champagne Orange Juice.

We were in the first few rows of the lower level seats, but during a commercial break a friend working there ushered us on to the floor to fill up empty seats.
(gotta make the TV audience at home think the place is packed full). There we were just a few rows away from the central podium.

I still smile when I see the video of the floor crowd erupting, and there we are just as stunned & elated & wildly screaming as everyone around us. My memory is a little fuzzy, but I think we all called in sick & partied all weekend.

Does anyone still have the party kit they handed out when entering GM place?


I must have been a good luck charm, because I was in London in 05 July when a friend there convinced me to brave the crowds in Trafalgar for their announcement. I haven't found myself in any of those videos, but it was a much larger (and louder) crowd.