Vancouver Overcast (Episode 7): Bob Mackin on the Pressure Cooker 2010 Olympics—PART ONE

Bob Mackin is a journalist from TheBreaker.news and host of TheBreaker.news podcast with an encyclopedic knowledge of the history of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games, which began 10 years ago this month. Bob takes us on his personal journey reporting on the very beginnings of the dream of hosting an Olympics in Vancouver, to the dousing of the torch. In part one this 2-part conversation, we discuss the amazing years, months and weeks leading up to the Olympic Torch arriving in Vancouver, which was described by one of its organizers as a “pressure cooker” of epic proportions.

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Recorded on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish peoples including the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh nations.