she’s been called the fastest woman on
ice hi I’m Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Olympic gold medal speed skater
Katrina LeMay dome well babe no it’s
gotta run disperse it is poised to win
the gold medal how are you first
informed that you were one of the
cauldron lighters for the 2010 Olympics
it was January nineteenth and because I
was a first torch bear in canada with
simon whitfield people have been talked
about names and I thought yeah you know
what I don’t even know if I’ll be
involved in the ceremonies and then John
furlong foamy and January nineteenth and
said will you be one of the lighters of
the cauldron and so I was ecstatic of
course we practiced we practiced in the
middle of the night no problems and then
the opening ceremonies happened and mine
didn’t lift ito was a test of patience
and I got so many emails from people who
saying you handled it so well so that
was that was very nice Wayne Gretzky
Steve Nash Nancy Green Rick Hansen I
mean what is it like to be chosen among
the elite of Canada’s athletes you know
it’s interesting because everybody’s
pretty normal people I mean is normals
athletes are but you know it’s we don’t
put ourselves in any different category
I was super emotional when Simon and I
carried the torch that was sort of when
it first came to Canada and I thought it
would be really emotional during the
ceremonies the one moment was right
before we started and recants and gave
me a hug and he said I’m really happy to
be doing this with you I said oh man
here I go but you know for having 60,000
people in a stadium it felt very
intimate and that was a pretty cool
feeling I read at least a while back you
were concerned about the future of sport
in Canada after the 2010 Olympics are
you still in the same place you know I’m
so proud of the power of the games I
believe that we’ve seen the impact in
just four years what putting money into
sport and and development of sport I
mean the youngsters that have been
inspired from 2010 and the old people
that have been inspired for 2010 I’m not
as concerned anymore because I think
though that as a country we were all on
the same side and saying look what it
can do for us thank you very much my
pleasure
ice hi I’m Rebecca Braden and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Olympic gold medal speed skater
Katrina LeMay dome well babe no it’s
gotta run disperse it is poised to win
the gold medal how are you first
informed that you were one of the
cauldron lighters for the 2010 Olympics
it was January nineteenth and because I
was a first torch bear in canada with
simon whitfield people have been talked
about names and I thought yeah you know
what I don’t even know if I’ll be
involved in the ceremonies and then John
furlong foamy and January nineteenth and
said will you be one of the lighters of
the cauldron and so I was ecstatic of
course we practiced we practiced in the
middle of the night no problems and then
the opening ceremonies happened and mine
didn’t lift ito was a test of patience
and I got so many emails from people who
saying you handled it so well so that
was that was very nice Wayne Gretzky
Steve Nash Nancy Green Rick Hansen I
mean what is it like to be chosen among
the elite of Canada’s athletes you know
it’s interesting because everybody’s
pretty normal people I mean is normals
athletes are but you know it’s we don’t
put ourselves in any different category
I was super emotional when Simon and I
carried the torch that was sort of when
it first came to Canada and I thought it
would be really emotional during the
ceremonies the one moment was right
before we started and recants and gave
me a hug and he said I’m really happy to
be doing this with you I said oh man
here I go but you know for having 60,000
people in a stadium it felt very
intimate and that was a pretty cool
feeling I read at least a while back you
were concerned about the future of sport
in Canada after the 2010 Olympics are
you still in the same place you know I’m
so proud of the power of the games I
believe that we’ve seen the impact in
just four years what putting money into
sport and and development of sport I
mean the youngsters that have been
inspired from 2010 and the old people
that have been inspired for 2010 I’m not
as concerned anymore because I think
though that as a country we were all on
the same side and saying look what it
can do for us thank you very much my
pleasure
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