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Less than two weeks after the Vancouver Olympics, the western Canadian city marked the start of the the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games. Over 500 athletes with disabilities will be competing, representing 45 countries.
Three weeks after claiming Olympic gold, Jason Lamy-Chappuis, 23, picked up the crystal globe in the Nordic combined on Friday. The Frenchman finished tenth in Lahti, enough to guarantee his victory in the World Cup with two races to go.
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A raucous celebration began across Canada on Sunday after Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in overtime to give his hockey-mad homeland a 3-2 victory over the United States in the Olympic final.
Norway's Petter Northug won the men's 50-kilometre cross-country skiing gold medal on the final day of the Winter Olympics on Sunday. He beat Germany's Axel Teichmann; Johan Olsson of Sweden won bronze.
With 13, Canada can be confident of finishing the Vancouver Olympics with the most number of gold medals. Austria's alpine reputation, meanwhile, lies in tatters as their men limped out of the Games without a single medal from five alpine events.
With only one victory this season, Guilano Razzoli was not a hot favourite for the Vancouver Olympics slalom. But ultimately the Italian won gold 18 years after Alberto Tomba last won the medal for Italy.
After her victory in the super-combined, Maria Riesch of Germany was crowned queen of the slalom at the Vancouver Olympics. She outperformed Marlies Schild of Austria and Czech Sarka Zahrobska, who finished second and third.
Norway's biathlon legend Ole Einar Bjoerndalen won his first gold medal at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, and his sixth career gold, as the Norwegian men's team won the 4x7,5km relay ahead of Austria and Russia.
