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Better funding to build athletes clearly seen in results
For Canada, the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver will be a fine test of the theory that money, properly used, equals both performance and national pride.
Canwest February 8, 2010

Olympic beer battle heats up
B.C. brewers predict a sharp increase in beer sales during the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. But beneath the short-term euphoria lies a lopsided beer war in which the microbreweries are duking it out with the beer giants.
Canwest February 8, 2010

Athletes confused by Olympic social media rules
American skier Lindsey Vonn, one of the potential stars of the 2010 Winter Olympics, told her nearly 35,000 Twitter followers that she would not be posting to the social network until after the Games were over, perhaps based on a faulty understanding of the International Olympic Committee’s rules on blogging and social networking.
CNN February 8, 2010

Winter Olympians among sport awards finalists
Canwest February 8, 2010

Aussies win ’Boxing Kangaroo’ battle
Globe and Mail February 8, 2010

Ice cream vendor scoops silver at snowboard meet
Canwest February 8, 2010

Canada sweeps Colombia at Fed Cup tennis
Globe and Mail February 8, 2010

Renner skis to bronze at cross country World Cup in Canmore
Canadian Press February 7, 2010

Lee-Gartner sticks to Olympic ideals despite torch snub
Toronto Star February 7, 2010

Three Canadians win halfpipe medals
Canwest February 7, 2010

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Have the wheels fallen off women’s hockey as an Olympic sport?
By Steve Buffery
Sun Media

This is everything you need to know about Olympic women’s ice hockey.

According to the International Ice Hockey Federation website, there are 166 female hockey players in all of China. Despite that, the Chinese women’s hockey team is ranked seventh in the world, and will take part in the Vancouver Olympics later this month.

As it was when the sport was added to the Olympic calender in 1998, women’s ice hockey continues to be a two-team event. Canada and the U.S. are the only two powers. Don’t believe those flower and sunshine reports about how the rest of the world is catching up. It’s not happening.

The supposed criteria for inclusion in the Olympics was that the sport be "widely practiced" in at least 25 countries. Women’s hockey is widely practiced in two. (Forget about Sweden beating the U.S. in the semifinals at the 2006 Turin Games. The Americans outshot Sweden 39-17).

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B2ten funding program gives a huge boost to Canadian Olympians

It’s a living Olympic legacy like no other.

Maybe Jennifer Heil will become the first Canadian ever to win a gold medal at an Olympics held in Canada. Maybe not. But when her event is done the evening after the opening ceremonies, a part of her will be in play every single day the rest of the way at Vancouver 2010 and, quite likely, at many more Olympics far into the future.

February 8, 2010

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