Olympic Photodesk -- Vancouver Preparations

(ATR) Vancouver is completing its final preparations for the Vancouver Olympics, now just over a week away.

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(ATR) Vancouver is completing its final preparations for the Vancouver Olympics, now just over a week away.

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B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and the podium for the Richmond Olympic Oval, made from wood donated by Powell River, B.C. The podium is shaped like Vancouver Island. (ATR)

The City of Vancouver transportation operations center will monitor traffic closely during the Games. (ATR)

Police from Royal Canadian Mounted Police detachments across Canada, and municipal and provincial agencies are part of the Vancouver 2010 Integrated Security Unit Games-time force. (ATR)

VANOC chairman Rusty Goepel watches Contemporary Security Canada screeners demonstrate the process for reporters at Hastings Park. (ATR)

Members of the media received a demonstration of Vancouver’s security processes for the Olympics on Monday. (Getty Images)

Compiled by Ed Hula III.

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