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Vancouver 2010 Paralympics

Sochi 2014: A Look Ahead Mar 30, 2010 / 10:44 am
When the youth of the world gather in four years time in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Games, Canadians will have some new names and some familiar faces to cheer on in the quest for gold.
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A month after capturing Olympic gold, Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have taken up exactly where they left off. Virtue and Moir skated into the lead after Tuesday's compulsory dance at worlds. CTVOlympics.ca

Dube and Davison stumbled through an error-filled free skate to finish sixth in Vancouver, and were left with was a profound sense of disappointment. They're hoping a medal at worlds can partly make up for that.

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Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir might be newly minted Olympic champions, but the Canadian ice dance darlings of the Vancouver Games left all the hoopla and celebrity behind the moment they left the West Coast. CTVOlympics.ca

Patrick Chan looked forward to facing the Russian skater one more time this season. That won't happen after Plushenko pulled out of the world championships Friday citing an injury suffered in practice. CTVOlympics.ca

The head of the Vancouver Olympics, an Olympic gold medallist and other dignitaries attended a ceremony Tuesday at the grave of the Georgian luger killed during a practice run at last month's Winter Games.
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Well, that was fun Mar 21, 2010 / 9:20 pm
It's all over, folks. This incredible world event that took over Vancouver and Whistler and B.C. and Canada for so long has flamed its last.
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New records, new heroes Mar 21, 2010 / 7:56 pm
Canada had its best Paralympic Winter Games in history. But there was more to these Paralympics than Canada's medal total. By the time the Games ended, there was something new in the air.
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The Paralympic flag has been lowered in Whistler and the flame has been extinguished, bringing to an end 10 days of competition at the Paralympic Winter Games. CTVOlympics.ca

After helping Canada to its best ever performance at the Winter Paralympics, Lauren Woolstencroft - who won five gold medals - has been given the honour of carrying the Canadian flag in the closing ceremony.
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McKeever wins third gold of the Games Mar 21, 2010 / 2:39 pm

Canada's Brian McKeever won the men's cross-country 1-kilometre sprint event in the visually impaired category, claiming his third gold medal of the 2010 Paralympic Games.

 

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Canada's Games cross the finish line Mar 21, 2010 / 1:29 pm
It was early Sunday morning, the last day of the Games, at the place where thousands of people had once stood crushed against a chainlink fence to see the Olympic and Paralympic cauldron. CTVOlympics.ca



Curtain falls on breakthrough Games Mar 21, 2010 / 10:02 am
Fireworks will light the sky above this mountain village on Sunday night in a bright noisy finale to a winter games organisers say boosted the Paralympics to a new level. CTVOlympics.ca

A Swedish curler at the Paralympics has been banned for two years after failing a doping test.

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U.S. Ski Team chief Bill Marolt has issued an apology after being arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence not far from the team's headquarters in Park City. CTVOlympics.ca

The Canadian wheelchair curling rink held on to an early lead in Saturday's gold-medal match versus Korea. The rink led by skip Jim Armstrong took gold with a final score of 8-7. CTVOlympics.ca

Canadian skier Lauren Woolstencroft won a fifth gold medal at the 2010 Paralympic Games becoming the first ever winter paralympian to top the podium five consecutive times in a single Games.

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Paralympic alpine skier Colette Bourgonje is being recognized with an award for exceptional determination at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games closing ceremony. CTVOlympics.ca


The United States sledge hockey team held off upset-minded Japan for a nail-biting 2-0 win and earned the gold medal at the 2010 Paralympics in Vancouver. CTVOlympics.ca

The Olympic and Paralympic have taught us that Canadian hearts are glowing, and after a gut-wrenching defeat in the bronze-medal game, the nation's sledge hockey team proved it.
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Vancouver's Olympic and Paralympic Games will be remembered first for the athletes, but the sports stars weren't the only entertainers grabbing attention.
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Halfpiper Lamoureux wins Crystal Globe Mar 20, 2010 / 12:19 pm
Canadian snowboarder Justin Lamoureux clinched this season's World Cup halfpipe crown after finishing third to winner Fredrik Austbo in La Molina on Saturday. CTVOlympics.ca


Making tourism accessible Mar 20, 2010 / 9:47 am
There are million-dollar strategies to turn B.C. into an accessible tourism destination. Then there is Hugh Tollett, who does it for free.
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Gold medal sledge game live on CTV Mar 20, 2010 / 9:25 am
Can Japan pull off a second straight upset for their first ever gold medal in sledge hockey? Watch as they face the United States live on CTV starting at 3 pm ET / Noon  PT.
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Canada's women's relay team placed fourth in the 3 X 2.5 km event Saturday after teams from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus took the top three finishes.

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Norway scored with 3.6 seconds to go to upset Canada 2-1 in sledge hockey's bronze medal game on Friday at UBC Thunderbird Arena in Vancouver.

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Every time American ski racer Danelle Umstead charges down Whistler Mountain at the Paralympics, her husband's voice directs her every move down the treacherous course. CTVOlympics.ca

After sweating his way to a gold medal at the Paralympics this week, Brian McKeever, the visually impaired cross-country skier, was quick to acknowledge that victory doesn't come cheap. CTVOlympics.ca


The fact of friction Mar 19, 2010 / 7:31 pm
Sheldon Green says his contribution to Canada's Winter Paralympics effort has been to trim the margins between victory and defeat for athletes by studying the manipulation of the frictional properties of skis on snow. CTVOlympics.ca

With Paralympic regulations designed to level the playing field, the Chair of London's 2012 organizing committee agrees when Furlong says, ‘there has to be a big effort to give these sports more clarity.' CTVOlympics.ca






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