Right To Play, a charity championed by many of Canada's top Olympians, is being frozen out of the athletes village at the Vancouver Winter Games for the first time since it began in 1992.
Right To Play will not be an official partner with the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) at the 2010 Games because it has sponsors that conflict with those of VANOC.
The Toronto-based international humanitarian organization has Wayne Gretzky, Silken Laumann, Adam van Koeverden, Simon Whitfield, Jose Calderon of the Raptors and Gregg Zaun of the Blue Jays among its Canadian ambassadors.
Right To Play, formerly Olympic Aid, has set up a booth in the village at the last three Games to inform athletes about their programs, which are delivered in more than 20 countries affected by war, poverty and disease throughout Africa, Asia and the Middle East.
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