Rick Hansen Foundation

Rick Hansen Honourary Mayor of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Village

January 19th 2010

On December 7th, 2009, eight Canadians were named volunteer honorary mayors to welcome athletes from around the world to their home away from home at the athletes’ villages in Whistler and Vancouver during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.

We were so excited that Rick was selected as co-Mayor of the Olympic Village, alongside Tricia Smith, Olympic silver medallist and seven-time world championship medal winner in rowing. Tricia, who coincidentally is also a longtime friend of Rick’s, currently sits as Vice President of the Canadian Olympic Committee and is a lawyer for the Court of Arbitration in Sport. Rick and Tricia will fulfill their Olympic Mayoral duties at the Olympic Village in Vancouver for the duration of the Olympic Games in February 2010.

The honorary Mayors— two per village, per Games — will be the welcoming faces of British Columbia and Canada at the brand-new athletes’ villages. As leading models of sustainability in North America, the villages will house more than 6,500 athletes and team officials arriving in 2010, as well as be the workplace for an estimated 5,500 workforce members. The mayors will officially open the villages in February and March.

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