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The final game for the Chiefs was against the first place finishers Prince George....
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In defending his Olympic halfpipe title, the orange-maned maverick flirted with perfection Wednesday at Cypress Mountain. White scored 48.4 out of a possible 50 on his second run, punctuating his dominance by landing the Double McTwist 1260 at the finish....
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Marianne St-Gelais of St. Félicien, Que., marked the occasion of her 20th birthday with an unexpected silver medal finish in the final, which was won by China's peerless Wang Meng, the defending Olympic champion...
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After more than week of heavy snow, rain, fog and warm temperatures, Whistler Mountain finally gets to show itself in all its splendid winter glory today....
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Motivated by unfinished business from the 2006 Turin Games — where she crashed in the final — Ricker roared down Cypress Mountain and claimed Olympic gold....
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Heavy rain and thick fog covered Cypress Mountain on Tuesday, prompting Olympics organizers to delay the women's snowboard cross competition by two hours....
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The men’s Olympic hockey teams, most of them bursting with NHL talent, held their first full practices at a GM Place venue that has been renamed Canada Hockey Place for the 2010 Games....
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Three-hour lineups. Desperate shortages of food and drink. Nowhere to escape the lashing wind and rain...
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Canadian Alex Bilodeau raced to the gold medal in the men's moguls final Sunday at Cypress Mountain....
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Alpine skiing is one of the glamourous marquee events of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. The Swiss are similarly keen to continue their mastery they've had over rival Austria on the World Cup....
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Luongo's fourth shutout of the season and 51st of his career couldn't have come at a better time for both he and the Vancouver Canucks....
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The U.S. team is projected to win 25 medals, nine of them gold, finishing behind Canada (34) and Germany (32)....
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The ski racing community has been debating how the region’s unpredictable weather might affect the 10-event Olympic Alpine competition....
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Schedule of events for Vancouver Olympic sporting events....
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More than 30 athletes who were expected to compete in the Vancouver Olympic Games were barred from competition after failing pre-Games testing....
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Organizers for the 2010 Winter Olympics are pulling out all stops at troubled Cypress Mountain, including a snow-hardening technique designed to battle the unseasonably warm temperatures....
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By the time the 2010 Winter Games have closed in Vancouver, the eight women who make up Canada's long-track speedskating team may lay claim to being the best collection of athletes we've turned out in the Olympics....
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Over the life of the Winter Olympics, the lab at the Richmond Oval will conduct up to 2,500 blood and urine tests as part of the self-proclaimed goal of the organizers to host doping-free Games....
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It took Halak all of two minutes to make four game-saving stops, sealing his place as both the Habs' No. 1 goalie and the Canucks' No. 1 source of frustration....
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A matchup against one of the NHL's hottest teams won't make it easy for the Montreal Canadiens to break out of their current slump. Doing so without their leading goal scorer figures to add to the challenge....
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Cypress Mountain, site of the snowboard and freestyle skiing events, is scrambling to retain or bring in enough snow to set up the venue....
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New research is casting doubt on the old adage, "All you need to run is a pair of shoes."...
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Workers toiling around the clock to build and preserve two key snow venues for the 2010 Winter Games are winning the battle despite unseasonably warm weather, Olympic officials said Thursday....
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The International Olympic Committee has leased every sign and billboard in town to broadcast Olympic joy, but they can't purchase people's faces....
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Roger Federer and Serena Williams needed all their fighting qualities to stay in the Australian Open on Wednesday after Li Na stunned Venus Williams to become the second Chinese to reach a grand slam semi-final....
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On a night when the Canucks needed something special, something different to subdue the league's third-stingiest team in an inspiring 3-2 victlory, Henrik delivered. Again....
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It's finally snowing on Cypress Mountain, home to some of the 2010 Winter Olympic events — but not for long....
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Winter Games officials have given up on Mother Nature and are planning to truck in snow for the freestyle skiing and snowboarding events at Cypress Mountain on Vancouver's North Shore....
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A Vancouver allergist says the 2010 Olympics will take place at the peak of the West Coast's tree-pollen season, which could present problems for both visitors and athletes....
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Warm weather and heavy rain have led to the closure of Vancouver's Olympic ski hills, one month before several 2010 Winter Olympic events are scheduled to open on the hill....
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While recent winter rains have washed North Vancouver skiing business downhill, 2010 Olympics officials insist they’ve got enough snow stockpiled to run Olympic events at Cypress Mountain....
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The Okanagan Rockets made history with an 8-4 victory over the Calgary Edge Mountaineers in the final of the 31st annual Kelowna Daily Courier-Tim Hortons major midget tournament at Memorial Arena, the Rockets were crowned the first ever local champs....
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Not only was the game Vancouver's first victory in 2010, but it was the Giants' last game at the Pacific Coliseum for more than two months due to the Olympics....
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Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks is, almost without question, the best Canadian goaltender in the NHL. His inclusion was one of the easiest decisions Steve Yzerman had to make....
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Apparently, there’s nothing wrong with the Vancouver Canucks that National Hockey League realignment couldn’t fix....
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The Pats looked rattled at times when they hit the ice for what turned out to be a wild-west shootout against the Kelowna Rockets....
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A sloppy second period doomed the Vancouver Canucks in Saturday afternoon's 5-3 road loss to the NHL-worst Carolina Hurricanes....
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It was one of those games, if you're Roberto Luongo, you just hope Steve Yzerman is watching. He was.
Yzerman saw every one of Luongo's 38 saves....
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It took ten games but the Rockets have finally rid themselves of the pox against the WHL’s U.S. Division with a 6-2 thrashing of the Everett Silvertips on the road Wednesday night....
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The Canadian government is defending its decision to hire a U.S. company to build the Canadian Olympic pavilion in downtown Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games....
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Trailing by 14 points at halftime, the Alouettes silenced a pro-Saskatchewan Roughrider crowd of 46,020 at McMahon Stadium with a 28-27 triumph over the Riders on Sunday....
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The Sharks, best team in the NHL at the moment, gave the Canucks a lesson Sunday night in team toughness and secondary scoring -- beating the hosts 4-2 at GM Place....
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2 Kelowna competitors, Kelsey Wiebe and Ashleigh Parker, skated off with the top two spots in the novice women's event at the 2009 provincial figure skating championships at the Minoru Park Arena in Richmond....
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The upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver will be broadcast in 22 languages, with sports commentary and play-by-play analysis to be delivered in a wide range of tongues....
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Canucks lose 3-1 to Detroit Red Wings....
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"We're only six weeks into the season and there is [seven] more to go before the roster will be named," said the executive director of the Canadian Olympic men's hockey team in Toronto on Tuesday....
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Daniel Sedin pushed hard in practice Sunday. The training staff pushed harder Monday. The Vancouver Canucks winger was advised to take treatment Monday on the left foot he fractured Oct. 7 after his first full practice since suffering the ailment....
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Tuesday evening, with the great Flames Flu Scandal still raging, members of the Calgary Flames farm club were quietly inoculated against H1N1 by their team physician....
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A set of 14-metre tall Olympic Rings floating in Coal Harbour that will shine throughout the Games were lit today by Premier Gordon Campbell to mark the start of the 100-day countdown to the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games....
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The Canucks managed another win Tuesday, but one dogged by a question which has been asked far too often: At what cost?...
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