Kelsie Hendry brings Torch excitement

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Olympic athlete brings Torch excitement to city
Canadian Olympic athlete Kelsie Hendry shared a moment with the Olympic Torch with Swift Current's Katie Durant, who has been chosen to light the cauldron at Swift Current's Olympic Torch community celebration on January 10.
Published on December 3rd, 2009

Canadian Olympic athlete Kelsie Hendry shared some Olympic excitement in Swift Current last Wednesday.
Hendry, a three-time national pole vaulting champion and current Canadian record holder, shared her Olympic story during a pair of stops in the community. She was a member of the Canadian track and field team which competed at the Beijing Olympics, and she has her eye on qualifying for the 2012 Olympics in London.She also had a chance to bring the Olympic Torch to the community to promote the Torch Run which will be coming to Swift Current on January 10.
"I love this time of year moving into the Olympic festivities and it's so exciting that I can be a part of it through RBC. This time it's not my Olympic journey, but I can live it vicariously through all of the torch bearers and all the community activities that are going on for the torch relay and then watching the Olympic Games in Vancouver."
Hendry will be one of the athletes travelling with the torch between Regina and Edmonton, meeting the public and signing autographs at special torch run community celebrations.
"I think one thing that we're always encouraging the kids to do is to dream big and for them to find their own podium - pursue something that they love, and it doesn't matter what it is. It could be academics. It could be dance. It could be pole vaulting, they can do whatever they love. Just find something and be willing to commit yourself and to see what can happen and take some risks and be true to themselves."
She was excited to see people's reaction to her visit, and the Olympic Torch.
"Today everyone was so welcoming and everyone seems to be really excited about the torch and I think that that's really great. Just wanting to touch it and hold it and take pictures with it just shows how the Olympic spirit is coming alive in Swift Current and getting ready for that Olympic torch relay is just really great and really nice to see."

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http://www.swbooster.com/News/2009-12-03/article-206034/Olympic-athlete-brings-Torch-excitement-to-city/1

Olympic athlete brings Torch excitement to city
Canadian Olympic athlete Kelsie Hendry shared a moment with the Olympic Torch with Swift Current's Katie Durant, who has been chosen to light the cauldron at Swift Current's Olympic Torch community celebration on January 10.
Published on December 3rd, 2009

Isinbayeva is doing the same thing as Kelsie. By the way, what is she doing in Montreal? Sponsorship event?

http://eng.rusathletics.com/nov/nov.php?ind=5638

Olympic Flame in Isinbayeva’s secure hands
12.12.2009

Two-time Olympic Champion and many-time World record holder in the women’s pole vault Yenela Isinabyeva has taken a part in the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay.

Two-time Olympic Champion and many-time World record holder in the women's pole vault Yenela Isinabyeva has taken a part in the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay.

Isinbayeva and Aleksandr Korneyev, a Physical Education teacher from Moscow, bore the torch on Montreal streets. The 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay started on 30 October 2009 and will end on 12 February in Vancouver.

"Bearing the Olympic torch, I was feeling a pride, because the Olympic Cauldron in Vancouver will be lit of it. I wish to the Russian team good luck, faith in its power and will to win. We will support our team", said Yelena Isinbayeva to the ITAR-TASS agency.