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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.
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VANCOUVER ' Lead Sonja Gaudet of Vernon, B.C., is the only member of the Canadian wheelchair curling team at the Paralympic Games that also competed on the gold medal team in Turin four years ago.
So, she speaks from experience.
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Vancouver (AFP) - Canadians across the nation hailed Alexandre Bilodeau as a hero on Monday after his victory in the men's moguls freestyle skiing ended a long-running home-turf gold medal drought.
Coast to coast, the front pages of newspapers billed him as "Alexandre the Great" in bold print alongside full-page photos of his "historic" win.
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