Anton Dharmaseelan...140th torchbearer in Olympic relay.
Anton Dharmaseelan, Senior Mortgage Specialist with the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) participated in the torch relay for 2010 Winter Olympics recently. Mr. Dharmaseelan was selected 140th of 120,000 to carry the 2010 Vancouver Olympic torch and ran on the second day of the relay in British Columbia.
He ran 300 meters starting from Wakeside Avenue to Foster Street in Nanaimo. The 2010 Winter Olympics, will be held February 12-28, 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the resort town of Whistler nearby.
The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Greece, where a fire was kept burning throughout the celebration of the ancient Olympics. The fire was reintroduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, and it has been part of the modern Olympic Games ever since. The torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the designated sites of the games.
