Heil wins silver in women's moguls

Jennifer Heil won Canada's first medal at the Vancouver Olympics, but it wasn't the one she — or the nation — was looking for. The 26-year-old from Spruce Grove, Alta., the defending Olympic champion, won silver the women's moguls on Saturday. American Hannah Kearney took the gold and teammate Shannon Bahrke took the bronze.

Canada romps in women's hockey opener

As expected, the Canadian women's hockey team had an easy time with Slovakia on Saturday. In fact, if you were scoring at home you might have run out of ink. To the delight of the near capacity crowd at the rockin' Canada Hockey Place, the home country opened the Olympic tournament with a whopping 18-0 victory.

Driver error led to death: Staudinger

Canadian luge coach Wolfgang Staudinger says driver error, not the lightning-fast Whistler course, led to the death of a 21-year-old slider from Georgia in a training run crash at the Vancouver Olympics. "It was not a track issue. It was a driver error — 100 per cent," the coach told The Canadian Press on Saturday.

Anti-Olympics rioters smash Vancouver store windows

More than 200 masked protesters smashed windows, vandalized cars and newspaper boxes and intimidated pedestrians in downtown Vancouver Saturday morning before being confronted and dispersed by police in riot gear. The anti-Olympics protesters, many dressed in black balaclavas and masks, and carrying a ladder, smashed up to three windows at the Hudson's Bay store and one at the Toronto-Dominion Bank near the intersection of Granville and West Georgia streets.

Donovan Bailey puzzled by Olympic snub

Celebrities galore participated in the longest domestic Olympic torch run in history, including Shania Twain, Michael Buble, Walter Gretzky, Rick Hansen, Nancy Greene-Raine, Steve Nash and Wayne Gretzky. Even California governor Arnold Schwartzeneger, an admitted steroid user, was among the 12,000 torchbearers. Conspicuously absent was the man who delivered one of Canada's greatest Olympic moments: Donovan Bailey.