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We were best when it counted

The Vancouver Games started as a ‘crazy’ dream and ended up a wondrous spectacle that transfixed and, just maybe, transformed a nation

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The risk of aiming high

Will medal counts affect future funding for Canada’s athletes?

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Who’s to Blame?

How efforts to be inclusive led to tragedy for one luger

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It’s all a blur, and it’s not the vodka’s fault

It’s a time to revel in the power of the human spirit and the limits of the human credit card

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If these Games be the worst…

‘Then, very well, let them be the worst,’ says COLBY COSH. ‘We’ll live.’

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Slow starts mar luge

With the first two turns eliminated from tonight’s men’s singles luge in response to yesterday’s fatal accident, many competitors are complaining they’re getting off to slow starts.

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Georgian president takes aim at luge federation

“With all due respect, no sports mistake is supposed to lead to a death. Common sense tells me: yes, there can be mistakes. I don’t think mistakes should lead to death.”

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Georgia team: ‘They will compete, and dedicate their performance to their fallen comrade’

The country’s sports minister says questions about Kumaritashvili’s experience are ‘unfair’

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Whistler’s fast—and deadly—track

The plethora of wipe outs during the international training week was a big concern going into the Games

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Other deaths on the track

The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili wasn’t the first Olympic tragedy

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A dark cloud over VANOC’s Olympic-sized party

Prior to the luge tragedy, there was a sense that everything in was finally coming together