Latest Article Posted 10:33 PM EST 27/02/06
No longer afraid to be the best
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'










