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Vancouver 2010

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The Star Rookies

Women’s hockey is in good hands in Canada—maybe too good for the game’s Olympic future
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Hot Pursuit

Denny Morrison likes a good story. The one about how his team took the gold is the one he enjoys the most.
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And the winners are...

What’s easily lost in the nationalistic posturing are the outstanding individual performances.
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The Greatest one

Clara Hughes is the only person to win multiple medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics. But, for Canada’s role-model athlete, it’s not about gold, silver or bronze.
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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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‘Old Bear’ has his day

It took eight years, but Kevin Martin has finally avenged the sting of a last-shot loss in the final at Salt Lake City. Canada’s best curler is now an Olympic champion.
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On top of the World

Sidney Crosby lifts his team—and the nation—in what might go down as the greatest game of all time
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An Act of Courage

Skating just days after her mother’s death, Joannie Rochette delivered one of the Games’ defining moments
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Quite an introduction

Between the sometimes-luminous opening ceremonies and the corny clichés of the closing show, Canada presented versions of itself the world had never seen