Olympic torch relay forges bond with host city, says 1988 torch bearer

From the Niagara Falls Review:

Twenty years after carrying the Olympic torch through the streets of Niagara Falls, T.C. Mangoff can still remember how it felt.

“It’s quite heavy actually,” he said. “You actually hold it pretty high.”

When he was 20 years old, Mangoff was one of 27 local runners who carried the torch when Niagara Falls was part of the relay leading up to the Calgary Winter Games in 1988.

Mangoff said he’d do it again if he could. And he might have the chance. Niagara Falls is one of the Canadian communities approached by organizers of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games to take part in that torch relay, said Mayor Ted Salci, who is coincidentally Mangoff’s uncle.