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LONDON/SINGAPORE: A failure to either read or heed one of the basic and oldest laws of association football has led to Iran’s girls team missing this year’s inaugural first Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in August and September.
In the end it was as much about the game itself as it was about the gold.
VANCOUVER ' In the end, it was as much about the game itself as it was about the gold medal.
The 2009 world champion United States added the 2010 Paralympic sledge hockey gold medal to their trophy case Saturday with a 2-0 win over a tenacious Japanese squad that finally got to the podium after three straight fifth-place finishes.
Nothing says hockey in British Columbia quite like Trail, home of the world-champion Smoke Eaters of 1939 and 1961 and the historic Cominco Arena, tucked hard by the river and below the town's iconic smoke-belching smelter.
And nothing quite conveys small-town, forestry-dependent B.C. like the donning of a Salmo dinner jacket, more commonly known as a plaid, wool lumberjack shirt.
Nothing says hockey in British Columbia quite like Trail, home of the world champion Smoke Eaters of 1939 and 1961 and the historic Cominco Arena, tucked hard by the river and below the town's iconic smoke-belching smelter.
Vancouver, BC ― The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) today commended the Government of Canada for committing an additional $17 million annually in funding in support of the Own the Podium program: $11 million for winter athletes and $ 6 million for summer athletes. The funding announcement came as part of the Government of Canada’s release of the federal budget.
Montreal (AFP) - An 86-year-old wooden hockey stick signed by Canada's original Olympic championship squad in 1924 is to be sold at auction in the coming weeks.
"It's a very unique piece and a fantastic part of Canadian hockey history," Marc Juteau, president of Classic Auctions in Quebec, told AFP.
With the Winter Games taking place now in Vancouver, Juteau said he expects a bidding frenzy at the March 16 auction that will also feature hundreds of items from a century of sport.
Vancouver (AFP) - Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir may have sizzled on the ice but the pair poured cold water on talk of romance the day after sealing Canada's first Olympic ice dancing title.
The couple captivated the nation as they glided across the ice to the haunting music of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 5 for their free dance on Monday night.
Vancouver (AFP) - Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir danced their way into history on Monday when they became the first North American couple as well as the youngest ever Olympic figure skating ice dancing champions.
The pair from Ontario took gold ahead of Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States as world champions Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin of Russia took bronze after the free dance final at the Pacific Coliseum.
WHISTLER (Reuters) - It was not the first day organizers were hoping for but fans in the Winter Games's mountain venue were doing their best to overcome their sadness and enter the Olympic spirit on Saturday.
SportsFollowing the death of Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili at Whistler's luge course on Friday, fans gathered outside the resort's pricey bars and cafes to take in the atmosphere and catch the ski jump action on screens dotted across the town.
