2010 Olympic Games

AP – No one needs to tell Sidney Crosby about the enormous expectations building in his homeland for Canada’s Olympic hockey team. The Vancouver Games don’t begin for another two months, yet it’s almost as if they start tomorrow.

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Olympic pressure already building on Sidney Crosby
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Eight Canadians — two per village per Games — will serve as honorary mayors during the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games this February-March, welcoming athletes from around the world, the Vancouver organizing committee announced Monday. These “mayors” will be the face of B.C. and Canada at the athletes’ villages, Vanoc said.

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Vancouver Winter Games names eight ‘mayors’ for Olympic, Paralympic villages

AP – Olympic leaders are finally ready to distribute the individual medals stripped from Marion Jones for doping — but withhold the 100-meter gold from another drug-tainted athlete.

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AP sources: IOC to keep Jones’ gold from Thanou
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With 68 days left to the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, the International Ice Hockey Federation announced the on-ice officials who will work the men’s and women’s Olympic ice hockey tournaments. Leading the list is Canadian Bill McCreary, the dean of NHL referees, who is going to his third Olympic tournament. The 54-year old Guelph, Canada native officiated in Nagano 1998 where he called the gold medal game between the Czech Republic and Russia (1-0). He also officiated the gold medal game four years later in Salt Lake City, Canada – United States (5-2). The men’s tournament will be called by 14 referees (seven from NHL) and 14 linesmen (six from NHL). NHL referees have been part of the Olympic on-ice officials crews since Nagano 1998

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Zebras named to Vancouver 2010

Top seeds Kevin Martin of Edmonton and Glenn Howard of Coldwater, Ont., opened the Canadian Olympic curling trials with wins Sunday, but they both had to fight for the victories. Howard stood and watched as Jeff Stoughton of Winnipeg’s free draw to the four foot for a win slid through the red ring and let Howard escape with a 5-4 victory.

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Kevin Martin, Glenn Howard score wins at Olympic trials

The Olympic torch run will pass through a Quebec reserve despite an earlier threat by the Mohawk Nation to stop RCMP escorts from entering their territory.

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Torch relay to continue on Quebec reserve without RCMP escorts

Christine Nesbitt may be a jazz aficionado, but there’s a undeniable jigger of Jagger and the Rolling Stones to her mental outlook. Just pop in a CD or put on those iPod headphones and listen to that lament about sat-is-fact-iiiiion.

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Canada’s Nesbitt skates to gold in 1,000 metres

Kristi Richards of Summerland, B.C., and Montreal’s Chloe Dufour-Lapointe both earned two podium finishes at a weekend FIS Europa Cup moguls event.

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Canadians mogul to five medals at Europa Cup event in Finland

She began her World Cup week like a princess with a proper English High Tea in the majestic Chateau Lake Louise and then rediscovered her form as a Speed Queen with two downhill podiums.

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Brydon waxes philosophic on her Lake Louise performance

A Whistler second-home owner is renting out his exclusive condo, just off the Olympic men’s downhill run, at Games time and giving all the proceeds to charity.

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Man to rent out Whistler home during Olympics for charity