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After the run, she donated the torch and the torch-bearer’s uniform she wore to the Shania Twain Centre, an exhibition center and gathering place that celebrates the singer’s rise to fame from the small mining town.

According to a post on her Web site, Twain revealed a minor modification she made to the torch when she handed it over to Timmins Mayor Tom Laughren: she put white hockey tape on the handle before her run.

She explained she did it “so it wouldn’t slip out of my hand. I thought that would be rather embarrassing if I dropped the torch!”

Twain also remarked that she was pleased to be back at the STC.

“It’s just such a huge honour,” she remarked. She added that she thinks about the centre often and says remembers her Timmins roots and “what it is for a small town girl to come from here.”