2010 Olympic Games

Quebec will spend $1 million to assess whether its capital city can put together a bid for future Winter Olympic Games.

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Quebec City mulls Olympic bid

The American ice dancing team of Meryl White and Charlie Davis continued a strong season, winning the NHK Trophy this weekend.

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White and Davis’ Strong Season Picks Up Another Ice Dancing Victory

The United States women’s hockey team was hoping to continue its domination of Canada through the Olympics, but lost badly in the Four Nations Cup over the weekend.

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Canada Breaks U.S. Women’s Winning Streak

Quebec will spend one million dollars to assess whether its capital city can put together a bid for future Winter Olympic Games.

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Quebec City studies Olympic feasibility

Tendinitis has again interrupted Sasha Cohen’s comeback to competitive figure skating.

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Sasha Cohen Withdraws From Skate America

LONDON (AP) — British officials will take “pre-emptive action” to stop sex traffickers from targeting the 2012 London Olympics.

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UK to crack down on sex traffickers ahead of ‘12

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo’s governor says he wants to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics — a month after Japan’s capital lost out to Rio de Janeiro for the rights to host the 2016 edition.

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Tokyo’s governor wants to bid for 2020 Olympics

Scroll down for scores, standings and links to boxscores. The Karjala tournament, the second Euro Hockey Tour event in the 2009-2010 season, was decided after the fifth game when Alexei Morozov scored the game-winner on the power play in overtime for Russia against the Czech Republic. Russia was undefeated in the round robin event, but needed overtime twice – against the Czechs and Finns – to claim the crown. Morozov netted both overtime game-winners. While the Russians took over the top position in the Euro Hockey Tour standings with 12 points in six games, the home crowd celebrated Finland’s historic win against rival Sweden with a 7-0 thumping

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November break full of surprises

AP – Tokyo’s governor says he wants to bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics — a month after Japan’s capital lost out to Rio de Janeiro for the rights to host the 2016 games.

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The Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay visited the northernmost permanently inhabited place in the world yesterday. The community of Alert, which is about 817 kilometres from the North Pole, saw twenty torchbearers carry the Olympic flame in temperatures ranging from minus 34°C to minus 27°C. This is the closest that the flame has ever been to the North Pole and was the tenth day of the longest national Olympic Torch Relay in history. Northern Lights Since arriving in Victoria, British Columbia, on 30 October , the Vancouver relay has been working its way north and has visited the Yukon, Northern Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Nunavut

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Alert For The Olympic Flame