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WHISTLER, B.C. '€” Matt Hallat hasn'€™t had an opportunity to do much ski race training the last few days, but it has allowed him to get better with a Ping-Pong paddle in his hand.

The single-leg amputee from Whistler is in the men'€™s standing category, a group that has been waiting for three days to get a training run in for Saturday'€™s downhill race that will launch the alpine schedule at the 2010 Paralympics.

METRO VANCOUVER - About 300 people filled Robson Square, spilling out on to the street, for Paralympic kick-off celebrations Thursday afternoon.

METRO VANCOUVER '€” The 2010 Paralympic Winter Games torch relay arrived in Vancouver this morning at Riley Park Community Centre where it was greeted by 150 people.

Fans wanting to thank Roberto Luongo for his performance during the gold-medal Olympic hockey game will get their chance Thursday when the Canucks captain lights a celebration cauldron at Robson Square.

VANCOUVER '€” School'€™s out and the marks are in. Here'€™s a look at how we felt the various Canadian sports performed at the 2010 Olympic Games. The Own the Podium 2010 funding is for the 2009-10 season:

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The party in Vancouver kicked off hours before Canada faced the United States in the men's ice hockey gold medal game on Sunday, with crowds that could grow into the largest celebration the Winter Games has seen so far.

With the game sold out months before anyone knew which teams would be on the ice, hundreds of people - most wearing Canada's red and white colors - lined up outside of bars to watch it on television.

WHISTLER '€” Thousands of voices shouted support, hundreds of Canadian flags filled the air and one Canadian athlete accepted gold.

'€œI hoped I would be wearing it and I certainly believed it was possible,'€ Jon Montgomery said Saturday just moments after a 2010 gold medal was placed around his neck after winning men'€™s skeleton Friday night at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

Whistler has always felt like a world of its own. For a town of 10,000, it has a rare cultural richness that range from traditions of the Squamish and Lil'wat peoples to the creative energies of modern mountain life.

WHISTLER, B.C. '€” Germany hit the medal podium at the Vancouver Olympics for the first time on Sunday night '€” the top two spots on the podium at that '€” as Felix Loch captured the gold medal in the men'€™s luge event.

WHISTLER, B.C. '€” A day after Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili'€™s death in a training run, Olympic and International Luge Federation officials were chin deep in damage control.

And they left a lot of people shaking their heads.