2010 Olympic Games

Tears streaming down her cheeks, Shirley Lewis made history Wednesday as she carried the 2010 Olympic torch into the traditional territory of the Four Host First Nations for the first time.

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‘It was a phenomenal feeling,’ says native torchbearer Shirley Lewis

AP – British anti-doping authorities will provide the country’s athletes with biological passports in an effort to deter the use of banned substances ahead of the London 2012 Olympics.

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UK Anti-Doping to issue biological passports
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Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin will clash on the ice for the final time before what most hockey nuts hope is a prelude to a Sid the Kid, Alexander the Great showdown at the Vancouver Olympics.

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Hockey salivating at possible Crosby-Ovechkin Olympic clash

Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin will clash on the ice for the final time before what most hockey nuts hope is a prelude to a Sid the Kid, Alexander the Great showdown at the Vancouver Olympics.

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Hockey world salivating at possible Crosby-Ovechkin Olympic clash

Jamaica’s bobsled team fell short of qualifying for the Vancouver Olympics.

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Jamaican Bobsled Fails to Qualify for Games

Killias led Austria and Switzerland to Olympics

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Ruedi Killias passes away

With all the talk about snowless Cypress Mountain, there’s one group that isn’t overly concerned. The athletes.

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Olympic athletes: No snow, no problem

While some twenty National Ski Associations have already submitted their projects by the deadline, due to the demands of preparations for the Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver 2010 as well as the FIS Junior World Ski Championships further submissions will be accepted until 15th February 2010.

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FIS SnowKidz Award: New deadline 15th Feb

hile some twenty National Ski Associations have already submitted their projects by the deadline, due to the demands of preparations for the Olympic Winter Games, Vancouver 2010 as well as the FIS Junior World Ski Championships further submissions will be accepted until 15th February 2010.

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FIS SnowKidz Award: Deadline extended to 15th February

AP – The U.S. women’s hockey team is right where it wants to be.

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US whips Finland in final tuneup for Olympics
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