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John Goodwin got a strange phone call the first Sunday morning of the 2010 Olympics.

The volunteer protocol officer for Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was told the president was keen to skate on an artificial ice rink at Park Royal Mall in West Vancouver.

WHISTLER '€” The 2010 Paralympics, breaking new records in attendance and visibility around the world, closed out in a flash of colour and patriotism Sunday night as athletes from around the world gathered under a basketball court-sized Canadian flag and wished the Games goodbye.

WHISTLER '€” Japan's Nitto Yohihiro grabbed the gold Sunday in the men's one-kilometre standing race, leaving the silver for Russia's Kirill Mikhaylov and the bronze for Ilkka Tuomisto, of Finland.

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.

TORONTO (AP) —Sidney Crosby’s missing Olympic stick and glove have been found.

Hockey Canada said Wednesday that Crosby’s missing equipment was misplaced rather than stolen after the frenzy following Crosby’s overtime goal against the United States in the gold-medal game on Feb. 28.

Crosby’s stick was located in Toronto as part of a shipment heading to the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg, Russia. The IIHF helped locate the stick and provided photographs to Crosby, who confirmed that it was the game stick.

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.

QUEBEC '€” Amy Taylor-Sharpe took part in the Paralympic torch relay in Quebec City Thursday for her hero '€” her daughter Sydney who suffers from cerebral palsy.

BERTHIERVILLE, Quebec (AP)—Joannie Rochette placed her Olympic medal on her mother’s casket and bid farewell Thursday to the woman she called her best friend.

Rochette momentarily set her figure skating bronze on the coffin during the funeral for Therese Guevremont-Rochette.

Rochette, who melted hearts around the world last week by delivering the medal-winning performance in Vancouver amid her grief, struggled through the painful final step of saying goodbye to her mother.