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My New City

The Games didn’t change Vancouver and Canada—rather, they reflected a change that had already occurred in us

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The risk of aiming high

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

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Top 10 best moments of the Vancouver Olympic Games

Curling fans, Norway’s pants and Joannie Rochette make the list

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Top 10 worst moments at the Vancouver Olympic Games

Rod Black, Melissa Hollingsworth and plenty of figure skaters make the list

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Jon Montgomery rides the slipstream into gold

What’s next for Monty? Doping, a beer and then a blank slate.

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Jon Montgomery

For the second Winter Games in a row, Canada wins gold in men’s skeleton

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Mellisa Hollingsworth deals with a pertinent question

Canada’s favourite female skeleton racer has an emotional post-event interview (UPDATED)

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Great moments in placards

Leave it to the Brits to boil a word down to its diminutive essence and then take their shirts off. “Shelly on her belly winning gold in the skelly,” read one sign, held aloft by a no-doubt hard-nippled group of cold English youngsters, a tribute to the sledding excellence of the UK’s Shelley Rudman. Rudman is seventh in the race after her third heat. “Skelly” and “belly,” meanwhile, will soon become part of the lexicon at Masters and Johnson.

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Winning form: The game plan

If it’s true that nice guys finish last, Canada, in the run-up to Vancouver, is looking golden

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Canada’s Olympians: Jeff Pain, Skeleton

PUTTING THE GAMES FIRST, The singular focus of an Olympic athlete can take a toll on a marriage

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The tally

With 51 precincts reporting specific estimates—restricting the count to media-reported figures and, where available, police counts—it’s possible to account for approximately 21,000 anti-prorogation protestors at yesterday’s rallies.