A private funeral is planned on Tuesday for Jack Poole, who is widely credited for leading the effort to bring the 2010 Winter Games to Vancouver. Poole, 76, was the chair of the Vancouver Organizing Committee and its predecessor bid committee that originally won the 2003 bid to bring the Winter Olympics and Paralympics to Vancouver and Whistler.
Poole, died in Vancouver on Friday after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer, but just hours after the lighting of the Olympic flame in Greece officially launching the relay that would lead to the opening of the Games on Feb. 12 in Vancouver.
Poole, died in Vancouver on Friday after a two-year battle with pancreatic cancer, but just hours after the lighting of the Olympic flame in Greece officially launching the relay that would lead to the opening of the Games on Feb. 12 in Vancouver.
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