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Canada dominate on home ice to top standings
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February 27, 2010, Saturday
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CANADA dominated their home ice by battling through to an epic men's hockey final and skating on the short track to the top of the Olympic medal standings yesterday.
But the Canadian curlers did not follow suit as the heavily favoured women's team tossed away the gold medal to Sweden in the last shots of a heart-stopping, high-decibel final.
The loss of gold in the temple of curling piled pressure not only on Canada's unbeaten men's team in the final against Norway today, but also on the other Winter Games sport in which Canadians demand dominance -- ice hockey.
Much to the their relief, the Canadian men scraped past Slovakia 3-2 in the semi-finals to set up a mouth-watering clash with the United States, who defeated them in a demoralising preliminary round match.
Gold in men's ice hockey may be the only medal of interest to millions of Canadians who grow up on the rough and tumble sport, but success on another type of ice is what put Canada in charge of their own Games.
Charles Hamelin won a chaotic men's 500m short-track skate and rushed to give medal-winning girlfriend Marianne St Gelais a passionate kiss.
MORE KISSING
Hamelin then led the Canadian men to another gold in the 5000m short track relay and more kissing ensued.
Canada, who only days ago were lamenting their lack of medals, stood alone on top of the standings with 10 golds, ahead of Germany on nine and the US and Norway with eight apiece.
It was also a history-making day for China's short-track skater Wang Meng, who became the second woman at the Games to win three golds with victory in the women's 1000m. Chinese women won gold in all four short-track events.
With only two days left in the Games, nasty weather wreaked havoc on some of the final medal runs.
German skier Maria Riesch grabbed her second gold medal of the Winter Olympics in the slalom on a snowy and foggy Whistler mountain, while her friend Lindsey Vonn went out with a whimper on snow which she said did not suit her.
On Cypress Mountain, Nicolien Sauerbreij of the Netherlands raced through a driving rainstorm and fog to win gold in parallel giant slalom snowboarding by a slim margin.
"I knew I was good but to win under these conditions -- unbelievable," the 30-year-old Dutchwoman said.
A pregnant snowboarder, Amelie Kober, braved those conditions too, but decided to withdraw after she fell.
Norway's men powered through a snowstorm to win the 4x7.5km biathlon relay, with anchorman Ole Einar Bjoerndalen moving within one medal of the leading Winter Olympic tally of 12.
But the Canadian curlers did not follow suit as the heavily favoured women's team tossed away the gold medal to Sweden in the last shots of a heart-stopping, high-decibel final.
The loss of gold in the temple of curling piled pressure not only on Canada's unbeaten men's team in the final against Norway today, but also on the other Winter Games sport in which Canadians demand dominance -- ice hockey.
Much to the their relief, the Canadian men scraped past Slovakia 3-2 in the semi-finals to set up a mouth-watering clash with the United States, who defeated them in a demoralising preliminary round match.
Gold in men's ice hockey may be the only medal of interest to millions of Canadians who grow up on the rough and tumble sport, but success on another type of ice is what put Canada in charge of their own Games.
Charles Hamelin won a chaotic men's 500m short-track skate and rushed to give medal-winning girlfriend Marianne St Gelais a passionate kiss.
MORE KISSING
Hamelin then led the Canadian men to another gold in the 5000m short track relay and more kissing ensued.
Canada, who only days ago were lamenting their lack of medals, stood alone on top of the standings with 10 golds, ahead of Germany on nine and the US and Norway with eight apiece.
It was also a history-making day for China's short-track skater Wang Meng, who became the second woman at the Games to win three golds with victory in the women's 1000m. Chinese women won gold in all four short-track events.
With only two days left in the Games, nasty weather wreaked havoc on some of the final medal runs.
German skier Maria Riesch grabbed her second gold medal of the Winter Olympics in the slalom on a snowy and foggy Whistler mountain, while her friend Lindsey Vonn went out with a whimper on snow which she said did not suit her.
On Cypress Mountain, Nicolien Sauerbreij of the Netherlands raced through a driving rainstorm and fog to win gold in parallel giant slalom snowboarding by a slim margin.
"I knew I was good but to win under these conditions -- unbelievable," the 30-year-old Dutchwoman said.
A pregnant snowboarder, Amelie Kober, braved those conditions too, but decided to withdraw after she fell.
Norway's men powered through a snowstorm to win the 4x7.5km biathlon relay, with anchorman Ole Einar Bjoerndalen moving within one medal of the leading Winter Olympic tally of 12.
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