The Games didn’t change Vancouver and Canada—rather, they reflected a change that had already occurred in us
Tag Archives: skeleton
The risk of aiming high
Will medal counts affect future funding for Canada’s athletes?
Top 10 best moments of the Vancouver Olympic Games
Curling fans, Norway’s pants and Joannie Rochette make the list
Top 10 worst moments at the Vancouver Olympic Games
Rod Black, Melissa Hollingsworth and plenty of figure skaters make the list
Does drinking six beers make the skeleton interesting to watch in person?
Scott Feschuk’s selfless experiment
Jon Montgomery rides the slipstream into gold
What’s next for Monty? Doping, a beer and then a blank slate.
Jon Montgomery
For the second Winter Games in a row, Canada wins gold in men’s skeleton
Mellisa Hollingsworth deals with a pertinent question
Canada’s favourite female skeleton racer has an emotional post-event interview (UPDATED)
Great moments in placards
Leave it to the Brits to boil a word down to its diminutive essence and then take their shirts off. “Shelly on her belly winning gold in the skelly,” read one sign, held aloft by a no-doubt hard-nippled group of cold English youngsters, a tribute to the sledding excellence of the UK’s Shelley Rudman. Rudman is seventh in the race after her third heat. “Skelly” and “belly,” meanwhile, will soon become part of the lexicon at Masters and Johnson.
Winning form: The game plan
If it’s true that nice guys finish last, Canada, in the run-up to Vancouver, is looking golden