The Celebrating Canadian Olympic Spirit, a 2010 souvenir sheet of 2 stamps from Canada.

 

Canada Post is issuing this souvenir sheet to celebrate the exhilaration and binding power of the Olympic Spirit during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games. We can hear it in the stadiums, alive with fans cheering; see it in the faces of eager children, decked in red and white; and feel it in the energy that Canadians create when they all come together as one.

The backgrounds of the two stamps feature photographs of four events: men’s four-man bobsleigh, women’s cross-country sprint, men’s short track relay speed skating, and Canadian cross-country skier Chandra Crawford as she accepts her gold medal at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games in Italy. The graphic patterns in the background of this souvenir sheet extend the energies within the stamp in abstract ways that can be read as movement, ice, snow, carved lines from blades and skis, and indoor and outdoor environments.