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Picture the scene: you're 19 years old, world number one, about to skate in the free program of the Olympic Games figure skating competition, and you've already won just about everything else there is to win except the Olympic crown.
Now add to that the weight of an expectant nation's

Yuna KIM

Vancouver 2010 | Olympic Winter games

VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 25:  Kim Yu-Na of South Korea celebrates winning the gold medal in the Ladies Free Skating during the medal ceremony on day 14 of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics at Pacific Coliseum on February 25, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.  (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)

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Yuna Kim and her life-changing Vancouver 2010 gold

Canadian master skip Kevin Martin celebrates gold as his country's long and successful association with curling continues at Vancouver 2010.

Originals

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Kevin Martin Takes Curling Gold in Vancouver 2010

Despite four broken ribs and a punctured lung, the Slovenian Snow Queen overcame the pain to win cross-country skiing bronze in Vancouver.

Petra MAJDIC

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Petra Majdic and the miracle of Vancouver

Canada’s total hockey love took on extra special meaning for three-time Olympic champion Meghan Agosta for the home Games in Vancouver.

Meghan AGOSTA

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Vancouver 2010: Proving boys wrong and changing women's ice hockey

The United States of America secure bobsleigh gold at the Winter Olympics Games Vancouver 2010.

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USA win Bobsleigh gold in Canada

There's an underlying need for speed at the Olympic Winter Games.
Every event on snow and ice requires varying levels of velocity, from a precise shot to knock opposing stones away in curling to generating enough power to execute a triple Axel in figure skating.
But while there are a

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A history of the fastest performances at the Olympic Winter Games

Ice hockey is one of the signature sports in the Winter Olympic programme, and regardless of the Games, always seems to produce incredible moments of drama and action.
In fact, there have been so many great ice hockey moments at the Olympics that compiling a list of 10 was quite

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John Morris has pretty much done it all in curling\. He has won the Brier \(Canada&rsquo;s biggest men&rsquo;s contest in the sport, afforded near\-religious significance\), he has won the World Championships and, on home ice at the Olympic Winter Games Vancouver 2010, he secured gold in front of an ecstatic

Olympic champion Morris leaves no stone unturned in quest for more curling success

That win changed everything,&rdquo; a contented 35\-year\-old Lindsey Vonn said as she recalled becoming the USA&rsquo;s first women&rsquo;s downhill Olympic champion at the Vancouver 2010 Games\.

Lindsey VONN

Olympic Legend: Lindsey Vonn looks back and reveals Vancouver 2010 ‘changed everything’

Jayna Hefford was there at the beginning and 16 years later she was still there at the top when she bowed out, having helped transform the face and feel of her sport\. It is this, not the record medal haul she picked up along the way, that she is most

Ice Hockey's Golden Girl Jayna Hefford is still a trailblazer

With only a few hours left before the Closing Ceremony, there was still one more event to go, and not just any event: the final of the men&rsquo;s ice hockey, between Canada and the USA\. At noon on Sunday 28 February 2010, the streets of Vancouver were practically deserted\. Its

Vancouver 2010 ends in wild celebrations after Canadian ice hockey victory

Today Anette Norberg is regarded as arguably the greatest skip in curling history, after winning two Olympic and three World Championship gold medals during a glittering career spanning more than three decades\. But few realise how failure moulded her into the champion she ultimately became\.

Anette NORBERG

Norberg, the natural-born skip with a golden record

Born on 5 September 1990 in Bucheon, a satellite city of Seoul, Yuna Kim came to international attention with her first major title at the 2006 World Junior Championships, when she claimed victory ahead of Japan&rsquo;s Mao Asada\. The following year, she teamed up with Brian Orser, the double Olympic

Yuna Kim turns Bond girl on 23 February 2010 en route to historic victory 

To say that Simon Ammann had a few setbacks after his amazing double victory at Salt Lake City 2002 would be an understatement\. In fact, he had to wait until after the Turin Games in 2006 to climb back to the top\. He earned the nickname &ldquo;Harry Potter&rdquo; when, at

Simon AMMANN

The day when Simon Ammann became the most decorated Olympic ski jumper

2010 was my first Olympic Winter Games and I have to admit that it was a really tough decision for my curling team\-mates and I whether or not we should go to the Opening Ceremony\. We knew that there would be quite a lot of waiting around and that it

Eve MUIRHEAD

Eve Muirhead: “It makes you realise that this is it, you’re at the big one - the Olympic Games.”

Now 60, Eilertsen initially became involved in the Olympic torch relay through his job at the Norwegian postal service, Norway Post, who were the presenting partner and organiser of the Olympic Winter Games 1994 Lillehammer torch relay\. He worked on transport, security and logistics for the relay, a role that

The Olympic torch relay: “a symbol of peace, friendship, tolerance and hope”

The youngest competitor in the event at just 18 years and 307 days, Shiffrin became the second\-youngest woman to achieve seven career wins, and the youngest in 34 years\. She did so by posting a combined time of 1:45\.83, beating Sweden’s Frida Hansdotter by 0\.83 seconds\. Another Swede, Maria Piatilae

Seventh World Cup victory for outstanding Shiffrin

Athletes are at the heart of each Olympic Games, so it is only natural that they are playing a leading role at the International Olympic Committee \(IOC\)’s debrief of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games this week in Krasnaya Polyana, the area that will host the mountain events of the

An Athlete’s Perspective

After 16 days of fantastic sporting competition on the Olympic venues of Vancouver, Richmond, and Whistler, the curtain has now fallen on the XXI Olympic Winter Games – Vancouver 2010\. Described by IOC President Jacques Rogge, as “excellent and very friendly Games"\. They will undoubtedly leave happy memories for the

Thank You And Merci Vancouver!

The skies above BC Place go red as the patriotic coloured fireworks explode in the evening sky, marking an official end to the Games in Vancouver, but also highlighting the history made in Canada\.

Canada goes out with a bang

The Closing Ceremony at Vancouver’s BC Place ended with the traditional handover of the Olympic flag from Vancouver to Sochi, Russia, the 2014 host\. But the glow from the 2010 Games is sure to linger in Canada long after the international spotlight shifts elsewhere\.

Vancouver says Good-bye - Rogge: "Excellent and very friendly Games"

Closing Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver
Speech by the IOC President, Jacques Rogge
Vancouver, 28 February 2010

VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 28:  IOC President Jacques Rogge speaks during the Closing Ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at BC Place on February 28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.  (Photo by Jasper Juinen/Getty Images)

Speech by the IOC President, Jacques Rogge at the Closing Ceremony

Canada got off to a slow start in the group matches, enduring a tense shootout against Switzerland and then going down 5\-3 to the USA, who, by contrast, went through the group stage unbeaten and were looking confident\. Sweden, Finland and Russia also qualified for the quarter finals, each showing

Ice Hockey: a 3-2 win that sparked huge celebrations on the ice, inside the stadium and around Canada

The International Olympic Committee \(IOC\) is pleased to announce the list of the flagbearers for the 82 National Olympic Committees \(NOCs\) participating in the Closing Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games\.
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VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 28:  Flag bearers display the competing nations flags during the Closing Ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at BC Place on February 28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.  (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

The Flagbearers for the Vancouver 2010 Closing Ceremony

Martin’s rink had secured their place at the 2010 Games on the back of a two\-year run of fine results\. They won the 2008 World Championship crown and finished runners\-up the following year, beaten by a British rink that was tipped to provide one of their stiffest tests in Vancouver\.

Kevin Martin - Curling

Holcomb started out as a skier before getting his first taste of bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Games as a forerunner, one of the course testers who check out the run before competition starts to make sure conditions are suitable\. He loved the experience so much that he decided to

Steve Holcomb end his country’s 62-year wait for a gold medal in bobsleigh

Though a talented skier, she eventually realised that she would never reach the standard required to make it onto the Olympic podium, and decided at the age of 17 to switch her attentions to bobsleigh\.

Humphries' and Moyse's final run turns into a national celebration

She also had three world titles and no fewer than seven European crowns to her name\. In short, this was a skip who knew how to win on the big stage\. Furthermore, in Vancouver she had the advantage of leading out the same team that had won gold in Turin,

Anette Norberg arrived in Vancouver knowing that a piece of Olympic history was within her grasp...

He did not disappoint, starting with silver in the 10km on the opening day of the biathlon programme, finishing behind surprise winner Vincent Jay of France\. In tough conditions, many of the favourites fell away but Svendsen showed all of his skill, speed and determination, overcoming the handicap of an

Emil Hegle Svendsen showed all of his skill

Going into Vancouver 2010, Vonn was the main star of women&rsquo;s Alpine skiing, while Riesch was one of her main challengers\. The German was a talented all\-round athlete, who had also played tennis and cycled at national level\. But it was on the Alpine circuit that she truly dazzled, and

Maria Riesch claims a maiden Olympic gold

The Canadian women’s hockey team, which has often taken a backseat to the glamorised men’s team, didn’t mind being the underdogs to their Canadian counterparts as long as they got to play the sport\.

Women’s hockey: a hit

Whistler was experiencing some unusually mild weather in the run\-up to the Games, and ahead of the start of the moguls competition the course was looking fairly bare\. The organisers came up with an ingenious solution by bringing in trucks full of snow to make sure that the course was

Alexandre Bilodeau wins the men’s moguls competition to start a Canadian gold rus

In their opening match the Canadians thrashed Slovakia 18\-0, the biggest victory in Olympic history and a scoreline that would have been even more emphatic had it not been for the Slovakian goaltender, who made 49 stops in total\.

Canada Women’s Ice Hockey Team claims a precious gold

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VANCOUVER, BC - FEBRUARY 28:  Olympic volunteers are honored during the Closing Ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics at BC Place on February 28, 2010 in Vancouver, Canada.  (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)

The Volunteer Spirit

Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo had been skating together since 1992, having first competed at the Winter Games back in 1998\. They came fifth on that occasion, and then won bronze medals in both 2002 and 2006, though they might have done even better had their preparations not been hindered

Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo: a gold medal at their fourth attempt

The Russian House, the Sochi2014\.ru World, also appearing as the giant sparkling globe visible in downtown Vancouver's landscape shots, is putting a miniature version of its Games on display in the hope of building excitement\.

Sochi's time fast approaching

The Norwegian opened her campaign in the 10km freestyle in relatively modest fashion\. The race was won in convincing style by Sweden’s Charlotte Kalla, as Bjørgen contented herself with bronze\.

Marit Bjørgen was the undisputed queen of Vancouver, winning five medals, three of them gold

It was easy to understand why\. Kim had only lost twice in the previous three years\. In the run\-up to Vancouver, she won Skate America and the Grand Prix final and appeared to be in fantastic form\. But the Olympic Games have a habit of throwing up surprises and seeing

Yuna Kim sets the ice on fire!

In securing gold with a dazzling free programme at Vancouver&rsquo;s Pacific Coliseum, the 19\-year\-old Kim posted a world record points total and earned hero status in the Republic of Korea as the country&rsquo;s first Olympic figure skating champion\. Featuring a triple lutz\-triple toe loop combination, her trademark camel spin and

Yuna Kim blazes an icy trail for the Republic of Korea

Ashleigh McIvor of Canada thrilled fans from the host country as she claimed the gold medal in Tuesday’s competition\. Hedda Berntsen of Norway took the silver medal, and Marion Josserand of France won bronze\. The three top finishers predicted growing audiences for the new Olympic event\.

Ski Cross Wins Rave Reviews

Hellner was making his Olympic debut in Vancouver, and almost capped his first appearance with a medal\. In the 15km he attacked right from the start, remaining out in front for most of the race before fading in the closing stages and missing out on bronze by a whisker\.

Gold for Sweden's Marcus Hellner in Cross Country Skiing

The MOC of the local organizers brings together all of the OCOG’s functional areas in one place\. This includes departments such as spectator services, transportation, accommodation, media services, sport, technology, and cleaning and waste, which must all work together to ensure that everyone’s Olympic experience is a great one\. When

Keeping The Games On Track

&ldquo;Pressure is something you put on yourself,&rdquo; said the youngest of all the Vancouver Games' athletes, Australian moguls skier Britteny Cox\. &ldquo;It's actually pretty exciting to know I'm the youngest of everybody here\.&rdquo;

Youngest athletes feel pressure-free

Kerr, who has an Alpine skiing background like the majority of the ski crossers, was born to an American mother and a Jamaican father and grew up as a dual citizen between Lake Tahoe in California and Westmoreland in Jamaica\. For him it was about putting his country on the

Jamaica in the top ten 

Before he could even start thinking about this misfortune, Angerer was offered a new pole by a Swiss ski technician standing nearby\. Unsurprisingly, he was overwhelmed by this gesture: "This is so great\. I’m absolutely grateful for this kind of fair play in the most important competition of the year,"

Great gesture of fair play for Angerer 

Robin Szolkowy \(born 14 July 1979 in Greifswald, Germany\) began skating when he was four years old\. Originally a singles skater, he switched to pairs when he was 16\.
Finding a partner

Bronze for Robin Szolkowy and Aliona Savchenko 

Dario COLOGNA

Gold for Switzerland's Dario Cologna

Aliona Savchenko was born \(19 January 1984\) in Kiev, Ukraine and began skating when she was five years old\. She took up pair skating at the age of 13, and with partner Stanislav Morozov competed in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games\.

Aliona Savchenko

The Norwegian was the first athlete to win five individual gold medals at the Nordic junior world championships, and while some young athletes fail to fulfil their potential at senior level, that was emphatically not the case with Northug\.

Four medals for Petter Northug

The McDonald's Champion Kids contest has flown three of its winners from Quebec, Germany and the United Kingdom to spend four days experiencing the Games\.

Young contestants win it big

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Takahashi Daisuke is in his third season as an ice dancer.
And the 36-year-old will be the first to tell you he didn’t expect it to make it this far.
“When I first turned to ice dance, I never thought I’d be going into a third season”, Takahashi said following

Daisuke TAKAHASHI

Oct 23, 2022; Norwood, Massachusetts, USA; Kana Muramoto and Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) perform during the ice dance free dance program at Tenley E. Albright Performance Center. Mandatory Credit: Eric Canha-USA TODAY Sports

Takahashi 

Takahashi Daisuke: Plot to thicken for ice dancer in season 3 

The new year is here and the Olympic Winter Games are just over 30 days away! Welcoming in the new year is all about celebrations - and we’ll see plenty of those just over a month from now when athletes begin winning medals at Beijing 2022. But before the stars

GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 22:  Gold medalists Shaoang Liu, Shaolin Sandor Liu, Viktor Knoch and Csaba Burjan of Hungary celebrate during the victory ceremony after the Short Track Speed Skating Men's 5,000m Relay Final on day 13 of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Ice Arena on February 22, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea.  (Photo by Richard Heathcote/Getty Images)

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Some of the greatest celebrations in the history of the Olympic Winter Games 

Reaching incredible speeds and dizzying heights, and always with a fierce competitive spirit on display, the Olympic Winter Games are full of historic (and, yes, crazy) moments.
From the so-called Herminator's (Hermann Maier) unbelievable comeback in Nagano in 1998 to the drama of the Canada/USA women's ice hockey dual in

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Tara Lipinski

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Jorien ter Mors is enjoying one of her best seasons to date ahead of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
This is likely because the short track speed skater is training pain-fee for the first time in three years.
The timing could not be better.
After a career that has included

Jorien TER MORS

HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS - FEBRUARY 13:  Jorien Ter Mors of Netherlands competes in the 1000m Ladies race during Day 3 of the ISU World Speed Skating Championships at Thialf Arena on February 13, 2021 in Heerenveen, Netherlands. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

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Five things to know about Dutch skating star Jorien ter Mors

Sven Kramer's career in speed skating career began with a bang.
As an 18-year-old he won the 2004 Junior World Championships, before taking out the prestigious Dutch Allround Championships.
Now, the Flying Dutchman is eyeing his fifth and final Winter Olympics, and still remains the man to beat in the

HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS - JANUARY 11: Sven Kramer of Netherlands competes in the 5000m Men Final during the ISU European Speed Skating Championships at the Thialf Arena  on January 11, 2020 in Heerenveen, Netherlands. (Photo by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)

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