Olympic theme a "gold medal" for musician

Creating the official broadcast theme music for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics has been like training for one of the sports: draining yet exhilarating, says composer Stephan Moccio.``It's been a journey that parallels very much so the journey of an athlete,'' Moccio, 37, said in a recent interview in his Toronto studio.``These were 16, 20-hour days, particularly in the last two months. They were gruelling. I was not sleeping _ and I loved it.``It's a gold medal for a musician and composer, absolutely.''Moccio has arranged about 250 different musical snippets for Canada's Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium, to be used during the coverage. They also commissioned his song, ``I Believe,'' recently released to radio. The tune, along with its French-language version, ``J'Imagine,'' are also available at CTVOlympics.ca and RDSolympiques.ca.Glass Tiger frontman Alan Frew wrote the lyrics to ``I Believe,'' sung in English by prodigious Montreal vocalist Nikki Yanofsky. Quebec recording artist Annie Villeneuve is on the French-language single and a bilingual version.