Triathlete Simon Whitfield and Pan Am Games organizers are ready to show off the torch that will travel throughout Canada and Ontario ahead of this summer's games.
The torch, as well as the special outfits the torchbearers will wear, will be unveiled at a special Monday morning ceremony at the Ontario Science Centre.
Whitfield, who was a torchbearer at the Vancouver Olympics, says the ceremonial flame is an important part of the Games for both the athletes who are competing and those who are training with the hopes of one day making it there.
Simon Whitfield, centre, helps like the Olympic torch at a ceremony ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Games alongside fellow athlete Catriona Le May Doan. Whitfield will also be a torchbearer at this summer's Pan Am Games. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)
"That lighting of the cauldron really symbolizes all of that," he said.
Whitfield captured a bronze at the 1999 Games in Winnipeg before going on to win gold and silver medals at the Sydney and Beijing Olympics.
The 41-day torch relay is set to stop in several provinces, but will mostly focus on Ontario where it will go everywhere from the Nipigon to Toronto to Point Pelee. In total, the torch — which will be lit from the Games flame currently burning in Mexico — will visit 130 communities.
Some 3,000 torchbearers are set to carry the torch throughout it's more than 5,000-kilometre long journey.
There are just 116 days until the start of the Pan Am Games, and 144 days until August's Parapan Am Games.
Who gets the ultimate honour of lighting the TO2015 cauldron will be kept a mystery until closer to the Games.
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