As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.
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When we Owned the Podium: Kerrin Lee-Gartner
- February 27, 2010 6:38 PM
- By John Shmuel
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When we Owned the Podium: Kathy Kreiner
- February 27, 2010 6:34 PM
- By John Shmuel
As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.
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When we Owned the Podium: Nancy Greene
- February 27, 2010 6:31 PM
- By John Shmuel
As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.
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When we Owned the Podium: Anne Heggtveit
- February 27, 2010 6:25 PM
- By John Shmuel
As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.
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Emergency shipment of condoms headed to Olympic athletes
- February 24, 2010 6:07 PM
- By John Shmuel
Rowdy curling crowds; spontaneous street parties; public drunkeness. You don't have to look far for evidence that the crowds at Winter Games in Vancouver know how to have a good time.
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Olympic Contenders: Men's 500-metre short track
- February 24, 2010 1:05 AM
- By John Shmuel
Hopes for a Canadian medal here are high, but these have not been Charles Hamelin's Olympics. Hamelin is the reigning world champion and ranked first in the World Cup standings in this discipline, but he has failed to medal in his first two races.
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Olympic Contenders: Women's 1,000-metre short track
- February 24, 2010 12:55 AM
- By John Shmuel
This event has been hyped as a clash of two neighbours. Chinese superstar Meng Wang has made it clear her nation has one primary goal: to beat the South Korean team.
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Olympic Contenders: Women's figure skating
- February 22, 2010 11:51 PM
- By John Shmuel
This event is very much a showdown between two historical rivals, Japan and South Korea.
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Olympic Contenders: Men's 10,000-metre speed skating
- February 22, 2010 11:29 PM
- By John Shmuel
If people didn't know who Sven Kramer was before, they do now (thanks to the hilarious video of the Dutchman asking an NBC reporter if she was stupid). Kramer holds the world record in the 10,000-metre race, which he set in March of 2007. He's also won gold in the last three world championships for this event.
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Olympic Contenders: Men's aerials
- February 21, 2010 9:56 PM
- By John Shmuel
Men's aerials presents a strong stable of interesting athletes to watch when the event gets underway.
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About the Author
- Bruce Arthur Bruce Arthur is the National Post's national sports columnist. A Vancouver native, he has been with the Post since 2001, and a columnist since 2005. He is covering his second Olympics, after the 2008 Games in Beijing. He expects these Games to be slightly less propagandistic, and for China to win slightly fewer medals.
- Joe O'Connor Joe O'Connor is a roving sports feature writer with an open-ended beat. He joined the National Post in 2002, and has spent the past seven years bouncing from sport to sport, offering fresh perspectives and delivering unique stories wherever he goes. Whether it has been getting Don Cherry to open up about his love life; George Chuvalo to talk about heartbreaking loss; or racing down the side of a mountain with former Crazy Canuck, Dave Irwin, the veteran Postie chases a story wherever it leads. Before joining the newspaper he was a two-time silver medalist at the National Magazine Awards. Vancouver will be his first Olympics.
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- As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.... Continue reading this post
- When we Owned the Podium: Kathy Kreiner
- As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.... Continue reading this post
- When we Owned the Podium: Nancy Greene
- As Canada prepares to watch its athletes go for gold at the Olympics in Vancouver starting on Feb. 12, the National Post looks back at the 39 gold medals the nation has won in Winter Games history.... Continue reading this post
