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Winter Games

General

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

‘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.

An Act of Courage

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

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

Canada Reborn

Own the Podium was more than just good sport. It was a picture of our country as it was always supposed to be.

Newsmakers

So a blond walks into a courtroom, A royal plot goes for naught, and a partridge in a pear tree