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Latest Article Posted 10:33 PM EST 27/02/06

No longer afraid to be the best

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Performances show that our athletes are no longer afraid to be the best in the world, Christie Blatchford writes


For Olympians, a sweet homecoming

Supporters, many dressed in red and white and waving Canadian flags, greet team members at airport


Arrivederci, Turin

Closing-ceremony a Carnevale — a circus-like celebration full of clowns and acrobats, vibrant and often dreamlike


Swedes capture gold

Sweden emerges from all-Scandinavian final over previously unbeaten Finns with 3-2 victory


Klassen leads Team Canada in closing ceremonies

Speed-skating star named Canada's flagbearer; IOC president calls her 'woman of the Games'

Hockey

No goals, and no medal for Russians

Hockey team leaves Games medal-less for only the second time in 50 years

Vokoun leads Czechs to bronze

Goalie shuts out Russians in 3-0 triumph


Figure Skating

Elegant Arakawa outduels favourites

Japanese skater stays on her feet as Cohen, Slutskaya stumble; Rochette shines in fifth


Speed Skating

Hughes wins gold, Klassen grabs bronze

Clara Hughes wins 5,000-metre gold; Teammate Klassen wins her fifth medal

Two short-track silvers for Canada

Men's team glides to second-place finish in 5000-metre while Tremblay wins silver in 500-metre sprint

Skaters propelled by Lucky Leaf

Canadian icemaker buries solid gold maple leaf at Oval Lingotto finish line

Canadian class clown bounces back

Jonathan Guilmette is the class clown of the Canadian short-track speed skating team

Dutchman de Jong wins gold in 10,000

Arne Dankers finishes ninth

Cheek to carry U.S. flag in closing ceremony

Speedskater wins election by the team

Slow Italian oval keeps speedskating records on ice

No one has come close to challenging a world mark


Alpine Skiing

Austrians dominate slalom

Thomas Grandi of Canada finishes ninth while Austrian men sweep medals in last Alpine event of the Olympics

Bode Miller 'rocked' Olympics

U.S. skier says he did it his way

Simard narrowly misses podium in GS

Canadian finishes fifth; American Julia Mancuso captures gold


Freestyle Skiing

Canadian coach guides China to gold in men's aerials

Calgarians Kyle Nissen finished fifth, and Warren Shouldice placed sixth


Cross-Country Skiing

Di Centa thrills host nation one last time

Italian wins gold with thrilling finish in men's 50km skate

Greis emerges as biathlon's star

German becomes the first three-time gold medalist at the Winter Olympics, outshining Bjoerndalen

Czech Republic's Neumannova wins 30km skate

Milane Theriault, the lone Canadian to enter the event, did not start

Scott is the athletes' clear choice for IOC position

Anti-doping crusader tops poll in record turnout; Canadiens captain Koivu second


Bobsleigh and Luge

Lueders fourth and out

Canada 1 finishes 09/100ths of a second out of the bronze medal position


Curling

Howard never too old to savour success

'Greatest curler of all time,' 50, calls winning gold his finest moment

Canada strikes curling gold

Brad Gushue's rink scores emphatic 10-4 win over Finland as record medal haul continues

Deepening world pool gives this bronze lustre

Kleibrink's rink is making no apologies


Other news

Rogge impressed with Canada's medal haul

IOC president says performance bodes well for 2010

Turin faces challenges of post-Olympic life

City goes after the post-modern dream of becoming a cultural, tourist and commercial hub

Austrian doping tests come up negative

No evidence detected in samples from 10 skiers targeted in raids and subjected to surprise tests

Vancouver 2010 group studying problem of empty seats

VANOC wants to avoid issue that's plagued Turin Games

U.S. Olympic head: expectations not met

Jim Scherr admits pre-Games goals 'may not have been realistic'