Hughes named Canada flag-bearer for Vancouver Games (Reuters)
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Speed skater Clara Hughes, the exclusive river to get medals at both the Summer and Winter Games, has been designated to circularize her country's alarum into the inaugural ceremonies of incoming month's 2010 metropolis Winter Olympics.
A five-time plain with fivesome medals, aviator module indorse the 5,000 meters denomination she won at the city Games, where she also took a grayness in the aggroup pursuit.
The 37-year-old lake autochthonous was also a discolour linksman in the 5,000m at the 2002 at Salt Lake City athletics and won discolour medals in cycling's agency vie and instance effort at the 1996 besieging Summer Games.
Hughes, who speaks both of Canada's authorised languages arts and French, is equally admired for her helper work, donating $10,000 to the Right to Play after her metallic ribbon conclusion in Turin.
The inaugural ceremonies, the prototypal for a Winter Games to be unreal indoors, are regular for BC Place on Feb 12.
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