Sunday, February 14, 2010

Canada Wins First Gold in Vancouver 2010!!



Congrats Canada! We've Won our First Gold Medal of the 2010 Olympics!! Hopefully the first of many to come!


The Honour goes to Alexandre Bilodeau (http://www.alexbilodeau.com/) from Quebec, who kicked some butt in the Men's moguls.

Here's the story for more details:

Canada's Bilodeau wins gold in men's moguls

(http://www.cbc.ca/olympics/freestyleskiing/story/2010/02/14/spo-mensmoguls.html)

GO CANADA GO!!

--jackandcokewithalime

PS: By the way, this was our first ever Olympic Gold Medal won on Canadian Soil!! (In case you didn't know..)

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STANDINGS
GOLDSILVERBRONZETOTAL
1. UNITED STATES1236
2. GERMANY1304
3. FRANCE2013
4. CANADA1113

CANADA TOTAL MEDALS: 3

Jennifer Heil - SILVER - Freestyle Skiing - Ladies' Moguls - 2/13/10
Kristina Groves - BRONZE - Speed Skating - Ladies' 3000m - 2/14/10
Alexandre Bilodeau - GOLD - Freestyle Skiing - Men's Moguls - 2/14/10


(Images taken from:
http://trendliest.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/news_canadian-flag-640.jpg (Canada Flag)
http://static.mybanktracker.com/bank-news/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/vancity_large.jpg (Vancouver 2010 Medals))

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