Triathlon gold medalist Simon Whitfield and speedskating champion Catriona Le May Doan joined to light a torch for the Vancouver Games on Friday, kicking off the longest domestic torch relay in Olympic history.

Whitfield, who won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and silver at the 2008 Beijing Games, resides in Victoria, where the relay started. Le May Doan is the only Canadian to successfully defend an individual Olympic title, having won gold at Nagano and Salt Lake City.

Over 106 days, the torch will stop in every Canadian province and territory leading to the lighting of the cauldron at BC Place. The games will be held from Feb. 12-28 in Vancouver and Whistler.

The torch relay will cover nearly 28,000 miles, reaching the most extreme corners of the country, to Alert in Canada's arctic and L'Anse Aux Meadows, Newfoundland, on Canada's Atlantic coast. It will pass through more than 1,000 communities and be carried by 12,000 torchbearers on a journey by plane, boat, bike, dogsled, skateboard and other modes of transportation.The last time canada last vosted the winter Olympics was in 1988 in calgary A.B..Whats your fav sports in the winter Olympics?

I love the Torch relay around the world. I was able to see in Salt Lake just before it arrived and lit the Olympic Cauldron.

HOCKEYall the way !!!!!

it will pass thow quesnel on its way down "so cool" and yes hockey all the way!!

Downhill Ski Racing

I'm more into water polo. Especially when the women are playing LOL

I know I'm a perv. Dirty oldfart that I am LOL

I look forward to the Bobsled racing and will now add Women's Water Polo to my liking...thanks Scoot!

Maybe we can get a Maple syrup wrestling added to it since it is in Canada? Wait that would be the Summer Olympics.

i was driving to school and listened to it on the radio lol

i'm sorry but nothing tops snowboarding...except maybe free skiing...

Curling all the way!!!!!!! I don't know what it is about that sport but I just have to watch it for hours if its on.