Golden Moment for Canada

Posted by Cynical Sarah on February 14, 2010

Canadians have been waiting a long time to have an Olympic gold medal that was one on home soil. The nation has hosted the Olympic games twice before – Calgary in 1988 and Montreal in 1976 – but was unable to pull out a gold medal win at either of those.

It took two days of competition here in Vancouver for Canadians to finally get that taste of gold at home. Alexandre Bilodeau found his place at the top of the medal stands in the Freestyle Skiing: Men’s Moguls this evening.

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