Look back at all the joy (and agony) of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics with this collection of images from the Opening Ceremony through the Men's Hockey Gold medal game and the Closing Ceremony.
As if there needed to be a better, more dramatic ending to the 2010 Winter Olympics than Canada vs. the United States in hockey. How about a game-tying goal with 24.4 seconds remaining? How about sudden-death overtime?
The United States had its best Winter Olympics showing ever in Vancouver, including 4-man bobsled (above). A pause to celebrate, and to ponder what comes next.
Canada's overtime win over the United States for the Olympic gold medal in men's hockey was watched in its entirety by about half of Canada's population. In the U.S., it drew the largest TV audience for any hockey game since the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Evgeni Nabokov's last game was a, well, let's be polite about, a profound, comprehensive, grandiose, laugh-inducing, internationally-seen stinker. And the fallout for Sharks fans will therefore be -- nothing.
The problem with hockey, to the dilettante drop-ins (including this one), is that the goals are so fluky.
So long Vancouver -- here's what I'll remember, and what I wish I could forget....
Lindsey Vonn was supposed to leave Canada practically gold-plated, and Bode Miller wasn't supposed to do squat.
Canadian Olympic officials were ecstatic over the host nation's medals showing. Now, to keep it going in 2014...
With the Vancouver Olympics coming to a close, the focus turns across the world to Russia's first Winter Games in 2014.
Which would you rather do: Hurl yourself down a scary-fast course at 90 mph, or take a leisurely ride in a rubber tube?
Paul Johnson scored the game-winning goal in the quarterfinal against Canada at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Olympics.
Apolo Anton Ohno was DQed in his final individual Olympic race, but helped win bronze in a relay to close his Olympic career.
Thanks to a laugher and a nail-biter in the semifinals Friday, the Americans and Canadians can believe in rematches.
Mounties are a big deal. They certainly look snappy in their red tunics and jodhpur-type britches tucked into knee-high boots.
Canada is home to 24 newly minted Olympic gold medals, thanks in large part Shannon Szabados' golden glove.
Sassy and spirited one day, elegant and assured two days later, Yu-Na Kim is a skater for the moment.
While the U.S. alpine skiers have had a record-breaking Olympics, the Nordic combined counterparts have gone a giant step further.
Sadness and disappointment couldn't keep Julia Mancuso from skiing like a champion. But almost great wasn't good enough.
Yes, I really did spend $9.75, Canadian, on a hot dog, along with $6.75 for another. They were well worth the investment.
From actor Donald Sutherland to the man on the street, Canadians seem just like us. Go figure. John Crumpacker's Olympic Journal.
Julia Mancuso became a world-class skier because of the wealth of experience she gained as a kid on Squaw Valley's slopes.
Events included Women's Giant Slalom and Women's Curling Gold and Bronze medal matches, Men's Bobsled, Short Track Speedskating.
Even after the snow melts, Whistler is one of Canada's most beautiful corners — and the high point of the new Sea-to-Sky Highway.
Vancouver's bohemian neighborhoods lure visitors with a lively mix of ethnic bakeries, gay taverns and eclectic boutiques.
Johnstone Strait, off Vancouver Island, may be the world's best place to encounter wild killer whales.
Take the ferry to Granville Island and you can watch artists work at crafts from glass blowing to printmaking to leather-crafting.
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