Vancouver 2010 boss: Games changed Canada 20/04/2010 |
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Vancouver 2010 chief executive John Furlong believes this year’s Winter Olympics changed Canada for the better.
In his swansong speech, Furlong said: "I would like to think as we wrap this up that we have done our best and we have changed our country and we have changed the lives of people and that the next generation will have something that perhaps the last didn't have.
"That the Canada of tomorrow will be that vibrant, strong, enthusiastic, we-can-take-on-anybody Canada that we all wanted when we went into this."
Furlong also reflected on the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili on the opening day of the Games.
"I will never forget that call because my immediate reaction was one of complete helplessness," he added. "I honestly did not know what to do.
“It was not something I had ever before confronted and I felt like my own son had been in an accident. I closed my door and had every emotion you could possibly have. I was praying the call would come back that he had survived and that as bad as it was, we would get over this and we would move on.
"All I knew was that I was the leader of a great bunch of men and women, people who had pulled together, stuck together for all these years, and I believed in my heart that somehow we would find a way to get through this, overcome this."
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