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- Olympic closing ceremony celebrates Canada
- The closing ceremony of the Vancouver Games kicked off with typical Canadian self-deprecation, but quickly became a celebration of Canada and its athletic and cultural achievements — often with a twist of humour.
- Canada outlasts U.S. for hockey gold
- Sidney Crosby took a pass from Jarome Iginla and scored just under eight minutes into overtime to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and the gold medal in Olympic men's hockey on Sunday.
- Canadian hero Crosby seizes golden moment
- One shot for gold. That is what an absolutely compelling and thrilling Olympic gold-medal game came down to on Sunday afternoon.
- Youth was served for Team Canada
- Sidney Crosby made sure the country's fantasy came to life with a dramatic overtime goal to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and the coveted gold that ignited a nationwide party.
- Arthur: Crosby makes leap from superstar to legend
- It will be replayed like Paul Henderson's goal, or Mario Lemieux's, and it will be carved into this country's memory. Parents will tell their children about it; it will become myth, here.
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- Langenbrunner to captain U.S. hockey team
- Jamie Langenbrunner of the New Jersey Devils was officially named captain of the United States Olympic men's hockey team on Monday.
- 5 Team Canada players making number switch
- Five members of Team Canada will be wearing different numbers than they normally do in the NHL, Hockey Canada announced Friday.
- Bergeron out 2 weeks with thumb injury
- Boston Bruins centre Patrice Bergeron should only miss two weeks with an injury to his right thumb, the team said Tuesday.
- Americans go with new-look squad for 2010
- Not since NHL players started going to the Olympics 12 years ago has the American team featured so many new faces.
- Team Canada predictions: how we did
- The results are in. After much fanfare, hoopla, pomp, circumstance, and ceremony, the Canadian men's Olympic hockey team was finally named on Wednesday, and our Hockey Night panel did pretty darn well in predicting the team roster last weekend.
Athlete Updates
- A Saturday full of redemption
- Each of the three Canadian gold medals on Saturday came with a healthy dose of redemption for the athletes who won them.
- Canadian bobsleigh medals came under radar
- Before the 2009-10 World Cup season, everybody was pegging pilots Helen Upperton and Pierre Lueders to lead the Canadian charge for Olympic medals in Vancouver. Then Kaillie Humphries and Lyndon Rush began to steal the spotlight.
- Golden night for Canada's short-track skaters
- The Canadian men's short-track speedskating team came away with three Olympic medals, including two gold, during a scintillating final day of comeptition at the Pacific Coliseum on Friday.
- Bernard runs out of magic
- So deadly with her final shots throughout the Olympic tournament, Canadian curling skip Cheryl Bernard couldn't come up with more last-second heroics in the women's gold medal game Friday, and had to settle for silver.
- Rookie goalie has big hand in Canada's gold
- If you're an Olympic rookie goalie playing on Canada's women's hockey team, you don't spend much time on the bench soaking in the experience.
Alpine Skiing
- Bode Miller took over 'Vonn-couver'
- He came into the Olympics as an afterthought, another alpine skier lost in the long shadow of Lindsey Vonn. But Bode Miller once again produced his best work coming from outside the spotlight, skiing for broke and coming away with one of the richest medal hauls in history.
- Italy's Razzoli takes men's slalom gold
- Leading after the first run, Italy's Giuliano Razzoli posted a combined time of 1 minute 39.32 seconds to hold off Ivica Kostelic of Croatia, who finished 0.16 seconds off pace to collect silver.
- German Riesch wins slalom for 2nd gold
- Maria Riesch of Germany led throughout the Olympic slalom competition at snowy Whistler Creekside, earning her second gold medal of the Games.
- Vonn's Olympics end with slalom elimination
- Lindsey Vonn's Olympics are over after the U.S. alpine star was eliminated from the women's slalom race Friday for straddling a gate.
- O'Connor: Like it or not, Canada choked
- They said a lot of things, about how they definitely could have done it, even though it would have been difficult to do. How all the hype and high expectations were warranted, and how they had come to Whistler full of maple leaf pride and looking to own, as the slogan goes, the podium. But what Canada's men's alpine team stopped short of saying was the truth: They choked.
Biathlon
- Norway takes home 3 biathlon gold from Whistler
- While there was no owning the biathlon podium in Vancouver, Norway made another statement as the country to beat at the Winter Olympics.
- Bjoerndalen leads Norway to gold in biathlon relay
- Norway's Ole Einar Bjoerndalen led his country to its 20th medal of the Vancouver Olympics, clocking 20 minutes 24.4 seconds in the final leg of the men's 4x7.5-kilometre biathlon relay for a first-place finish on Friday afternoon.
- Canadian Kocher just misses biathlon podium
- Canada's Zina Kocher finished fourth in a World Cup biathlon pursuit event Sunday, the second-best showing of Kocher's career.
- N.W.T. town cheers Olympic biathlete Green
- Canadian Olympic biathlete Brendan Green is a hometown hero in Hay River, N.W.T., where residents were bursting with pride over his performance in the men's biathlon relay on Friday.
- Russia repeats as biathlon relay champion
- Running the anchor leg in the women's Olympic 4x6-kilometre biathlon relay on Tuesday, Russian Olga Zaitseva turned around twice to survey her lead, raised her right arm and blew kisses as she neared the finish line, stopping the clock at one hour nine minutes and 36.3 seconds to give Russia its second consecutive gold medal in the event.
Bobsleigh
- Canadian bobsleigh medals came under radar
- Before the 2009-10 World Cup season, everybody was pegging pilots Helen Upperton and Pierre Lueders to lead the Canadian charge for Olympic medals in Vancouver. Then Kaillie Humphries and Lyndon Rush began to steal the spotlight.
- Future of Whistler track uncertain
- "The future of this track is bright." That note of optimism was contained in a press release this weekend about the future of the Whistler Sliding Centre.
- Bronze Rush for Canada in 4-man bobsleigh
- Lyndon Rush seemed a little disappointed with his bronze medal after the conclusion of the final four-man runs on Saturday at the Winter Games.
- Holcomb helps U.S. set Winter Olympics record
- The sports switch did not worry Steve Holcomb. When his son, Steven, changed winter sports allegiances from alpine skiing to bobsleigh, he knew both were inherently dangerous and vastly time consuming and offered little return.
- Canadian women's bobsleigh teams win gold, silver
- The Canadian women's bobsleigh team of Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse captured gold while compatriots Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown took silver at the Vancouver Olympics on Wednesday.
Cross-Country Skiing
- Breakout Games for Canada's cross-country men
- Traditional Nordic powerhouses owned the cross-country skiing events at Whistler Olympic Park, with Norway winning nine medals and Sweden taking seven.
- Norway's Northug golden in 50K, Canada's Kershaw 5th
- Petter Northug of Norway captured the men's 50-kilometre cross-country race Sunday on the final day of competition at the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
- Emotional Renner caps career in final race
- Sara Renner of Canmore, Alta., who "caught the bug" as a 12-year-old when the 1988 Calgary Winter Games staged cross-country ski events in her hometown, wrapped up a celebrated career Saturday at age 33 in another Games in Canada.
- Brian McKeever's Olympic dream over
- The head coach of the Canadian cross-country ski team confirmed Saturday that legally blind skier Brian McKeever will not start Sunday's 50-kilometre mass-start classic race at the Vancouver Games, ending McKeever's dream of becoming the first Paralympic athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics.
- Coach made right call on McKeever
- The easy decision would have been to let Brian McKeever race. The easy decision, for Dave Wood, the Canadian cross-country team coach, would have been the politically correct one to make. The easy decision would have been a disaster.
Curling
- Martin cemented status as curling's greatest
- Canadian skip Kevin Martin put the finishing touch on his already legendary résumé by finally capturing an elusive Olympic gold medal in Vancouver. Go ahead and give him one more title: greatest curler of all time.
- Canada golden in men's curling
- It may have taken eight years, but Kevin Martin took that next step up the podium he was seeking with a 6-3 win over Norway's Thomas Ulsrud in the Olympic men's curling final Saturday at the Vancouver Olympic Centre.
- Bernard settles for silver in women's curling
- Cheryl Bernard and her Calgary-based rink of Carolyn Darbyshire, Cori Bartel and Susan O'Connor fell one game short of striking gold in Vancouver on Friday, falling to Sweden.
- Stoeckli powers Swiss to curling bronze
- Switzerland won the Olympic bronze medal in men's curling on Saturday when Ralph Stoeckli scored two with the final stone to rally his team to a 5-4 win over young Sweden skip Niklas Edin
- Bernard runs out of magic
- So deadly with her final shots throughout the Olympic tournament, Canadian curling skip Cheryl Bernard couldn't come up with more last-second heroics in the women's gold medal game Friday, and had to settle for silver.
Figure Skating
- Kim, Rochette skate and nation build
- They call ladies figure skating the marquee event of the Winter Olympics, and in Vancouver there was star power and poignancy.
- Rochette named Canada's flag-bearer
- Figure skater Joannie Rochette, who captured a bronze medal shortly after the death of her mother, will carry the Canadian flag into Sunday's closing ceremony at the Vancouver Olympics.
- Rochette, Majdic share Terry Fox Award
- Canadian figure skater Joannie Rochette and Slovenian cross-country skier Petra Majdic are the winners of the Terry Fox Award at the Vancouver Olympics.
- Kim wins figure skating gold, Rochette bronze
- Kim Yu-Na of South Korea blew away the competition and Canadian Joannie Rochette won the hearts of the Pacific Coliseum crowd Thursday with a gutsy performance to earn an Olympic bronze medal just days after her mother's death.
- A hymn for Therese Rochette
- The sky has fallen on Joannie Rochette, but the strength to continue may be found in something the skater wrote four years ago in her online journal.
Freestyle Skiing
- Freestyle skiing gives Canada 1st gold at home
- Freestyle skiing will go down in Canadian history books for giving the country its first gold medal on home soil, along with a gold medal in skicross, and a venue full of problems.
- Canada's Bilodeau wins gold in men's moguls
- Alexandre Bilodeau of Rosemère, Que., has won the men's moguls event at the Vancouver Winter Games, becoming the first Canadian to capture Olympic gold on home soil.
- Heil wins silver in women's moguls
- Jennifer Heil won Canada's first medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but it wasn't the one she, or the country, was looking for.
- Canada's McIvor wins skicross gold
- Ashleigh McIvor of Whistler, B.C., has won the gold medal in the inaugural women's skicross competition at the Vancouver Olympics.
- McIvor turns essay into skicross gold
- Ashleigh McIvor never had childhood visions of being an Olympic gold medallist in skicross. It wasn't even part of the Games when she entered the sport, as an 18-year-old in 2002 — at that time, her dream was to qualify for the Winter X-Games.
Hockey
- Canada outlasts U.S. for hockey gold
- Sidney Crosby took a pass from Jarome Iginla and scored just under eight minutes into overtime to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and the gold medal in Olympic men's hockey on Sunday.
- Canadian hero Crosby seizes golden moment
- One shot for gold. That is what an absolutely compelling and thrilling Olympic gold-medal game came down to on Sunday afternoon.
- Youth was served for Team Canada
- Sidney Crosby made sure the country's fantasy came to life with a dramatic overtime goal to give Canada a 3-2 win over the United States and the coveted gold that ignited a nationwide party.
- Arthur: Crosby makes leap from superstar to legend
- It will be replayed like Paul Henderson's goal, or Mario Lemieux's, and it will be carved into this country's memory. Parents will tell their children about it; it will become myth, here.
- Olympic classic, but uncertain future
- When it was over, Patrick Kane lamented the loss, then the wait.
Luge
- Death loomed large over luge
- Germany may have owned the podium in luge at the Vancouver Olympics, but the competition will always be associated with the tragic death of Georgia's Nodar Kumaritashvili.
- Future of Whistler track uncertain
- "The future of this track is bright." That note of optimism was contained in a press release this weekend about the future of the Whistler Sliding Centre.
- IOC boss calls for safer track in 2014
- International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge has asked for a safer sliding track at the 2014 games in Sochi, Russia.
- Georgian luger dies in crash
- Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died Friday in a horrific crash in an Olympic training run at Whistler, just hours before the opening ceremony.
- Funeral held in Georgia for Olympic luger
- Georgians hoping to watch one of the nation's most promising young athletes compete in the Vancouver Olympics gathered instead to mourn him Saturday, more than a week after the luger died in a practice run at the Whistler Sliding Centre.
Nordic Combined
- Nordic combined not all about the medals
- All things considered, Canadian Jason Myslicki's 44th- and 45th-place finishes out of a possible 45 skiers can be accurately described as a victory, and can be no less a triumph for both his country and the Olympic spirit itself.
- Americans dominate Nordic combined
- Billy Demong and Johnny Spillane have given the Americans a 1-2 finish in the Nordic combined large hill competition that was marred by bad weather.
- Own the Podium's forgotten little brother
- It was a bad dream, only Jason Myslicki was wide awake and sobbing. Sobbing so hard he could not speak. His head was resting against his jumping skis. His heart was breaking.
- Austria wins Nordic combined team gold
- Austria won the gold medal in the Nordic combined team relay on Tuesday, edging the Americans.
- France's Chappuis wins gold in nordic combined
- France's Jason Lamy Chappuis narrowly edged out American Johnny Spillane in the 10-kilometre cross-country race to win the nordic combined Olympic gold medal on Sunday.
Short Track Speed Skating
- Canada wins 5 medals in short-track
- Charles Hamelin came to the Vancouver Olympics as Canada's golden boy of short-track speedskating. And after a slow start that briefly tarnished his lustre, he leaves the Winter Games shining brighter than ever.
- Golden night for Canada's short-track skaters
- The Canadian men's short-track speedskating team came away with three Olympic medals, including two gold, during a scintillating final day of comeptition at the Pacific Coliseum on Friday.
- Canada hits 10 gold with short-track haul
- Under heavy criticism for underperforming at the Vancouver Olympics, the Canadian men's short-track team responded on the final night of competition at the Pacific Coliseum with gold and bronze in the 500 metres and gold in the 5,000 relay.
- YOUR VIEW: Redemption for Charles Hamelin?
- Did Charles Hamelin do enough to redeem himself? Does Hamelin's performance on Friday make up for his falling short earlier in the Games?
- Canadians clean up on short track
- Charles Hamelin always wanted to be a superhero. But during the first two weeks of these Olympics, it seemed like he was just average Joe without any powers. And then, when the country needed him the most, he came through and saved the day for Canada. In true superhero fashion, he even ended up with the girl.
Skeleton
- Canadians tasted bitter defeat, sweet victory in skeleton
- Agony and ecstasy. Victory and defeat. The highest of highs and the lowest of lows. The Olympic skeleton track had it all that Friday night when Mellisa Hollingsworth's dreams were crushed and Jon Montgomery's came true.
- Skeleton star Montgomery to appear on Oprah
- Olympic skeleton champion Jon Montgomery is looking to talk up Canada when he appears on The Oprah Winfrey Show. The segment, recorded in Whistler, is slated to air Friday.
- Hollingsworth wants to come back for 2014
- After a heartbreaking fifth-place finish at the Vancouver Olympics, Canadian skeleton racer Mellisa Hollingsworth doesn't want to waste any time getting back on the track.
- O'Connor: Death of a dream
- Every athlete dreams of winning a gold medal at the Olympics, but only one athlete per event gets to win. And we, the people, watching them here and at home, get to move on to the next race, to the next great Canadian medal hope to the next big hockey game. We, the people, get to forget.
- Canada's Montgomery wins skeleton gold
- Jon Montgomery of Russell, Man., has won the gold medal in men's skeleton at the Vancouver Olympics.
Ski Jumping
- High-flying Ammann peaks at right time
- Simon Ammann has become one of the greatest ski jumpers of all-time after going two for two at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, capturing gold in both the normal hill and large hill events.
- The comfortable delights of ski jumping
- As the Winter Olympics get bigger, faster, higher and slipperier, the original danger sport of ski jumping feels quaint and old-fashioned.
- Austria dominates team ski jumping
- The Austrian Eagles successfully defended their Olympic ski jumping title with a 72.1-point victory over Germany in the final round of the large-hill team competition at Whistler Olympic Park on Monday afternoon.
- Ammann wins record 4th ski jump gold
- Simon Ammann of Switzerland won the men's individual large hill competition Saturday afternoon at Whistler Olympic Park to become the first-ever ski jumper to win four gold medals at the Winter Games.
- Canada's Read advances to ski-jumping final
- Canadian ski-jumper Stefan Read advanced to the final of the individual large hill event Friday.
Snowboarding
- Anderson, Ricker, Robertson carve names in Olympic history
- Canadians are carving their names in snowboarding history, with decorated veteran Jasey-Jay Anderson capping off his career with an Olympic gold medal, and snowboard cross racers Mike Robertson and Maelle Ricker winning silver and gold respectively.
- Canada's Anderson wins snowboarding gold
- Canada's Jasey-Jay Anderson won the gold medal in the men's parallel giant slalom snowboarding event at the Vancouver Olympics.
- Snowboard pioneer Canada's newest golden girl
- From the beginning, Maelle Ricker has always been a trailblazer.
- White spins, flips and McTwists his way to halfpipe gold
- American snowboarder and international celebrity Shaun White captured the gold medal in the halfpipe competition with as impressive a performance as any since his 2006 victory in Turin.
- Canada's Ricker wins gold in snowboard cross
- Maelle Ricker of North Vancouver has won the gold medal in women's snowboard cross at the Vancouver Olympics.
Speed Skating
- Long-track team fell short of expectations
- Heading into Vancouver, high hopes were put on Canada's long-track speedskating team to match or exceed its medal total at the Torino Games. But the team wound up with five medals, less than in Torino and well below expectations.
- Canada wins gold in men's speedskating pursuit
- A solid gold touch of redemption shone on Canada's men's long-track speedskaters on Saturday as they finished first in team pursuit at the Winter Olympics.
- Hughes leaves behind a legacy of hope
- Clara Hughes didn't know how much money it was. She just knew that it didn't matter how much money it was, and that she wanted someone else to have it. The last time she did this, she knew the total because the cash was already in her bank account. This time, it won't spend much time there, if any at all.
- YOUR VIEW: Is Clara Hughes Canada's greatest Olympic athlete?
- Is Clara Hughes Canada's greatest-ever Olympic athlete?
- Hughes ties Klassen with 6th Olympic medal
- Speedskater Clara Hughes, in her final individual Olympic race, tied teammate Cindy Klassen's all-time record for a Canadian with a sixth career Olympic medal on Wednesday, a bronze in the women's 5,000 metres.
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