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Canada Sets Record For Gold Medals

Sunday, February 28, 2010

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The Canadian 2010 Winter Olympics team was expected by Canadians from coast to coast to really shine like never before in the Vancouver-held Olympic Games. Heat was beginning to build on those connected to the Canadian Olympic team for a perceived lack of success. A couple big days seem to have changed that. Gold medals came [...]

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2010 Mens Figure Skating Aftermath

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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It is not often you see a website break all the rules and win. Black background, trademark flirtation. Controversial text. All the things you’re “not supposed to do”. Talk about a brilliant website click aggregator. It’s never too late to build traffic in explosive ways. Look at the way Evgeni Plushenko massed browsers to his [...]

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Moguls Skier Jennifer Heil Wins Canada’s First Olympic Medal

Sunday, February 14, 2010

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Canada’s first medal of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games was won by moguls skier Jennifer Heil of Spruce Grove, Alberta. Young Canadian Chloe Dufour-Lapointe finished fifth just outside the medals. The event saw Americans finish first and third to start off their Olympics on a good note. The first full day was to be a [...]

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The 2010 Winter Olympics – They Are Here

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

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The Vancouver-Whistler 2010 Winter Olympics are upon us. While the weather outside in Greater Vancouver is mild and wet, the spirits of Canadians, fans and athletes from around the world are hitting a high point. You can feel the excitement building. Much has been made of the cost over-runs and of American workers being brought in [...]

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2010 Canadian Mens Figure Skating Hopeful Patrick Chan

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Canadian Patrick Chan has been setting an amateur seniors men’s skating performance bar for some time. Internationally recognized and esteemed, Chan could sweep hometown crowd and deliver a bid for Olympic gold that resonates with the audience. Ranked 9th in the world, Chan showed a particularly strong 2009 skating year of European competition in ISU [...]

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Oda Nomunari 2010 Mens Figure Skating Preview

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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The most brilliant men’s skating performance of the last ten years was given by this skater at the ISU Grand Prix event in 2009. The darling Charlie Chaplin routine charmed audiences and showcased to advantage the skater’s small build. This dynamo appearance made headlines the world over. Oda Nomunari is a Japanese figure skating champion. [...]

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Vancouver Mens Figure Skating Preview For Stephane Lambiel

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Lambiel is a competent skater who is often placing at the Grand prix events of the ISU due to a dearth of other skaters missing events, not getting the nomination, or being assigned elsewhere. There is a pastiche quality to his routines and choreography, and a boyish aura about his skating that will clash [...]

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Mens Figure Skating Preview For Brian Joubert

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Brian Joubert has dazzled even his critics with occasionally spine tingling athletic brilliance matched with artistic conceptions well inside the legendary scope of virtuosity in artistic figure skating. Joubert has handled many European meets capably and emerged as the one to beat in a axis of European recovery after many years of dominance over the [...]

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Mens Figure Skating 2010 Winter Olympics – Evgeny Plushenko

Thursday, February 4, 2010

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Russian has its bear to beat in this year’s Olympic Games for men’s figure skating. Evgeny Plushenko is in a class all by himself, having created a stir with his gold medal Olympic battle for men’s figure skating with his rivalry with fellow Russian countryman Victor Potrenko. The lithe, agile skater challenged Plushenko for the [...]

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A Winter Olympics With No Snow?

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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A combination of environmental factors this Olympic year could see the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver – Whistler be nearly snow free. The world-class resort of Whistler which will be the scene of many of the skiing events is not fairing too badly, but the locations closer to the city of Vancouver are in [...]

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