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After two weeks, the 2010 Winter Olympics finally came to a close. The Closing Ceremonies started humorously, with a little skit poking fun at the hydraulic failure. A group of people dressed in white came out with red and white snowboards, creating designs during a concert and an upbeat playing...

Perhaps the most anticipated event for Canadians of the entire Olympic Games, it was fitting that the Men's Gold Medal Hockey Game would be the last event of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. With both the US and Canada being big hockey rivals, it was sure to be interesting...

While the Summer Olympics have the marathon, the lengthy 42 km foot race, the Winter Olympics have the 50 km Mass Start Classic, a fifty kilometre cross-country ski race lasting over two hours. Canada's focus for Sunday has been on the Gold Medal Men's Hockey game against the United States,...

After Clara Hughes carried the Canadian flag at the Opening Ceremony, Joannie Rochette, the 24-year-old from Île Dupas, Quebec, will be Canada's flagbearer at the Closing Ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver tonight.Rochette won a bronze medal in figure skating less than a week after her mother Therese...

Canada passed their Olympic total medal record Saturday night with a gold in Men's Curling, beating their old record of 24 medals set at Torino in 2006. In the first end, Norway was in possession of the hammer, and neither point scored. Beginning in the second end, Canada slowly increased...

As the Olympics start to wrap up, the top countries are hoping to go out with a bang at the end of these Games. Coming into the bobsleigh four-man finals, United States 1 was in first, with Canada 1 in second and Germany 1 in third.After Canada 2's run, Canada...

The parallel giant slalom is one of the most unique snowboarding events at the Olympics. Two snowboarders head down a curved hill at the same time, sort of like the ski slalom but with two athletes. Heading into the quarterfinals, Jasey-Jay Anderson was the only Canadian left. He beat Slovenian...

In the final men's speed skating event, Canada hoped to grab one more medal, and heading into the finals, Canada was assured at least a silver. In the finals before, the Netherlands set an Olympic record of 3:39:95, winning a bronze against Norway. In the finals between the USA, Canada...

Right after the crazy 500 metre Men's Short Track, the last medal event in the Short Track for the games, the 3000 metre Men's Short Track Relay, took place. Canada competed with China, South Korea, the United States and France, who was admitted due to a disqualification by Italy. China...

Short Track is perhaps one of the most controversial and fierce sports at these Olympics, especially after the Korean disqualification two days ago. In the semifinals, Canadian favourite Charles Hamelin set an Olympic record, and Canadians hoped he could repeat his performance in the finals. In the finals, Si-Bak Sung...

Canada's women's curling team has been doing very well at these games, making it into the finals against Sweden. For the first half of the game, Canada would win one point, then Sweden would earn two, making the score halfway through the game 4-2 Sweden. During end 6, Canada won...

The aerials are one of the shortest Olympic sports, but can be really interesting as people try to perform tricks in the air on skis. In jump 1, Kyle Nissen was the first Canadian to jump, pulling off a really impressive "Back-Double-Full-Full-Full" and landing flawlessly, pulling six points ahead of...

A furious hockey rivalry was renewed tonight, with Canada squaring off against their fierce rivals from across the border, the USA. Only this time, it was a gold medal showdown, and it was the women taking centre stage. Determined to avenge the men's loss to the Americans, Canada was...

Going into the final round, Canada's top team (Canada 1 - Kaillie Humphries and Heather Moyse) was ranked first with a half second lead, and Canada 2 (Helen Upperton and Shelley-Ann Brown) were ranked third, closely with the two top German teams. Before Canada 2 went down the track, Germany...

Canada's speed skating team, consisting of Jessica Gregg, Kalyna Roberge, Marianne St-Gelais and Tania Vicent, competed in the Ladies' 3000 m Short Track Relay Wednesday night. They entered Final A in third place, competing against China, the United States and South Korea. They managed to pull right behind China, but...

Our speed skaters are usually built for speed and sprinting, but Canadian Clara Hughes was built for long distance skating. Our first contestant was Cindy Klassen, who set a good score for others to compete against. Clara Hughes was our next contestant, who shot into first place by a huge...

With a beautiful free dance to Gustav Mahler's Symphony No 5, Ontario's own Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir glide into figure skating history. They have won the gold medal for Canada, the very first North American couple and the youngest ever (at 20 and 22) to become champions in ice...

Canada was off to a good start in the Olympic tournament playing Norway in the first game. In the beginning the team was off to a shaky start as it remained scoreless for the first period of play. After some problems were cleared out of the way the Canadians took...

One of the events Canada was expected to do best in was the ladies' 1500m speed skating event, with four great Canadian athletes performing. Cindy Klassen was the first Canadian to race, competing with Russian Yekaterina Shikhova. Klassen wasn't expected to get a medal, due to her injury last year...

The men's ski cross final took place on the hills of Cypress Mountain, as Christopher Del Bosco eyed his surroundings from the top of the course. As a medal favorite for Canada, he was determined to erase the disappointment that plagued his homeland, with the Hamelin brothers and Melissa Hollingsworth...

The ladies were unable to win any medals in the 1500 m short track minutes before, but Canada placed hopes in brothers Charles and Francois Hamelin to earn a medal. Going against South Koreans Jung-Su Lee, Ho-Suk Lee and American Apolo Ohno, they kept to the front at first, but...

In the semifinals, the round with Canadian Kalyna Roberge was quite hectic, as Roberge fell on her own, then South Korean Ha-Ri Cho, American Katherine Reutter and Chinese Meng Wang all fell down, causing a short check by the officials to check what the result should be. Wang was disqualified...

Canada's best male speedskaters Canadian Kyle Parrott went first, competing with Longjiang Sun from China. Parrott kept up with Sun for a few hundred metres, but fell a few seconds behind, coming in a temporary ninth place. The next Canadian, Mathieu Giroux, competed with Italian Olympic champion Enrico Fabris. Giroux...

Since Canada narrowly missed a medal in the Women's Skeleton only a few hours before, Canada's next chance at a medal was at the Men's Skeleton. Canada's first athlete was Jeff Pain, who sped down the track very cleanly, pulling in almost a second ahead of the next highest competitor,...

Skeleton is one of the scariest sports you can imagine. Speeding down a hill at speed upwards of 120 km/h, headfirst, the athletes put themselves at great risk to enjoy the thrill of this very fast sport. Our first Canadian was Michelle Kelly, who pulled into a temporary first place,...

One of Canada's best events is speed skating, and with four strong speed skaters, including the world champion Christine Nesbitt, Canada had a very good chance at getting a medal. Early in the event, You-Lim Kim of South Korea fell and slammed into the padding on the side of the...

After Canada won a surprise silver medal in the Men's Snowboard Cross, spectators looked at the Men's Halfpipe to see how well our athletes would perform there. After the semifinals, Canadian Justin Lamoureux was our only snowboarder who made it to the finals. After the first final round, Lamoureux was...

The short track relay is more hectic than one might assume, but with sixteen speed skaters speeding around a small rink pushing their teammates to get an advantage, things can get very exciting and fast. Canada's top-ranked team of Guillaume Bastille, Charles Hamelin, Olivier Jean and Francois-Louis Tremblay made it...

Of the eight speed skaters to get to the semifinals, there were three Canadians, giving Canada a good chance at a medal. In the first semifinal, Canadian speed skater Jessica Gregg kept herself right in front of Italian Arianna Fontana and Chinese Yang Zhou. In the second semifinal, Canadians Marianne...

With four impressive speed skaters from Canada in the Men's 1000 m, Canadians were assured at least a top ten placement. The first Canadian to compete, Francois-Olivier Roberge, placed a temporary second place after his run. There was an issue a few races later with the electric timer, causing a...

Canada wasn't expecting a medal in Ladies' Snowboard Cross, but snowboarder Maelle Ricker came almost out of nowhere, finishing third in the qualification run. She placed first in all her runs, even in the semifinal when she won after American favourite Lindsey Jacobellis, who fell off the course as she...

The pairs skating competition went under way in Vancouver, with the short program on Sunday and the freeskate on Monday. China comes away with their first ever gold medal in figure skating at the Olympics, won by the team of Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo. The married couple has come...

Canadian favourite Jeremy Wotherspoon could not get a medal on his last 500 m race, placing ninth, but he did well on his last 500 m race considering an accident last year which nearly left his right arm unusable. In the first round, Canadian Mike Ireland pushed up to second...

Canada's snowboarders in the Men's Snowboard Cross performed very well today, with top Canadian snowboarder Mike Robertson placing second. Early on, Canadian Mike Robertson finished second in the qualification round, giving hope to Canadians watching. All four Canadians who qualified were sent to the quarterfinals after decimating their competition in...

Canadian skier Erik Guay, who could not beat American favourite Bode Miller but placed right after him, opened Canada's Men's Downhill entry in a temporary second place position. Miller kept his lead while eight other athletes went down the hill, but Norwegian Aksel Lund Svindal displaced Miller by finishing 0.02...

Canada's best may not have made the cut for the Nordic Combined Individual Normal Hill and 10 KM Cross Country event on Sunday, but our good sportsmanship is enough to congratulate our neighbors for winning the silver. Bringing home the gold was 23-year-old customs officer, Jason Lamy Chappuis, representing...

With four of the twenty skiers being Canadian, it's not surprising that Canadian skier Alexandre Bilodeau managed to get a medal in the Men's Moguls, but exceeded expectations by earning Canada its first home gold medal. France's Guilbaut Colas, who some spectators joked was flying over the course because of...

Canadians weren't expecting much out of Sunday's luge event in Vancouver, but Canadian luger Samuel Edney placed seventh in Men's Singles Luge, surprisingly high considering that he was in nineteenth at Torino's 2006 Winter Olympics and entered in eleventh at the current 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Coming into the...

After a delay caused by water and slush covering the Richmond Olympic Oval, Canadian speedskater Kristina Groves placed third, followed by fellow Canadians Clara Hughes in fifth and Cindy Klassen in fourteenth. Cindy Klassen took an early lead, bringing many huge cheers from the crowd. In the last three laps,...

Canadian male biathlete Jean Phillipe LeGuellec finished sixth in Sunday afternoon's Men's 10 km Biathlon sprint, placing the highest any Canadian male has ever placed in the Olympic biathlon. LeGuellec was off to a great start, missing no targets at the first shooting range and completing the start section in...

Canadian skier Jennifer Heil won a silver medal in the ladies' moguls late Saturday night, winning Canada's first medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.Weather conditions were blistery, causing many athletes including Canadian Kristi Richards and Americans Michelle Rourk and Heather McPhie to fall during their run, losing their...

Canada's speed skater Olivier Jean came in fourth place in the Men's 1500 m Short Track late Saturday night, nearly giving Canada its first medal at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games. In the semifinals, Canada's other semifinalist speed skater Charles Hamelin placed third in his race, behind South Korean...

1976, 1988 and now 2010. The 2010 Winter Olympics, the second Winter Games and third Olympic Games to be hosted by Canada, are being held in Vancouver, British Columbia, from February 12-28, 2010. They begin with the Opening Ceremony at BC Place on February 12 at 9:00 PM, which will...