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Benjamin alldrittballdritt@nsnews.comCanada’s male short-track speed skaters ended their Vancouver medal drought in spectacular fashion Friday, winning gold and bronze in the 500 metres and gold again in the men’s 5,000-metre relay.

Charles Hamelin and Francois-louis tremblay both qualified for the 500-metre final alongside South Korea’s Si-Bak Sung and star speedster apolo anton Onho, who was looking to build on his United States record of eight career Winter Games medals.

the race ended with drama, as tremblay lost his footing in the final turn, apparently pulling down Sung as he fell. Hamelin was touched in the melee and staggered over the finish line off balance but in first place with Ohno cruising to second. But following the review, the judges ruled that Ohno had pushed tremblay in the turn, causing his fall. With the american disqualified, Sung was given silver and tremblay bronze.

Hamelin’s girlfriend marianne St. Gelais, a silver medallist in her 500-metre event, vaulted the barricade and embraced him.

Strong podium hopes in several short track events, the Canadian men had been shut out of the medals in previous outings.

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crowds pour into the city to celebrate the final weekend of

the Olympics. The early closures were put in

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West Vancouver standup comedian Chris Molineux knew he was in the studio

recording for the Olympics, but he had no idea that he was adding his voice to the

opening montage in the Opening Ceremony.

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u.S. hockey rematch SetBenjamin alldrittballdritt@nsnews.comCanada will play for the Olympic gold medal in men’s hockey Sunday after surviving a late Slovakian rally at Canada Hockey Place in the semifinals

Friday to win 3-2.the Canadian team wasn’t

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WV comedian voices Games montageBethany lindsayblindsay@nsnews.comthe Vancouver 2010 Winter olympics opened with a video montage of iconic Vancouver and Whistler images, overlaid with a deep voice intoning the names of each city to have hosted the Winter Games.

that voice belonged to west vancouver comedian Chris molineux, but he had no idea he played such a huge role in the opening

ceremonies until he started getting calls from family and friends.

“i wasn’t able to see it until the second or third telecast,” molineux said. he had recorded the voiceover in studio, but no one told him how it would be used.

“it was a centerpiece, which i didn’t know,” he said. “it was all hush-hush how it was going to be used.”

molineux’s friends were surprised to hear him speaking

during the video. he hadn’t told anyone that he was involved in the ceremony, because he didn’t want to disappoint anyone or be disappointed.

“it was one of those things where i didn’t have huge expectations to begin with,” molineux said.

“sometimes you’ll talk to people and they’ll say, ‘yeah, i was on X-Files,’ and then you watch and see the back of their heads for 12 seconds.”

molineux’s career as a stand-up comedian dates back to 1986, when he performed during vancouver’s last turn in the spotlight as expo host. From there he moved into teaching classes in stand-up, and then to training students in public speaking and general communications—a career that led him to a second role in these olympics.

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opportunities for student during the Olympics.

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Bernard rink’s gold slides awayAllEN CAmEroNCanwest Olympic TeamAnette Norberg is Sweden’s golden girl, again, and Canada’s Cheryl Bernard will spend years thinking about the gold that got away.

Norberg defended the olympic title she won four years ago in Turin by beating Bernard 7-6, stealing the winning point in an extra end in the women’s curling gold-medal game Friday in front of a Vancouver olympic Centre crowd that included Prime minister Stephen Harper and Swedish King Carl Gustaf.

Bernard had a shot to win the game in the 10th end, needing a nose hit on a near fully exposed Swedish rock in the eight-foot. But she was wide of the broom, and the target stone jammed on a rock behind it and allowed Norberg to hit for a game-tying deuce to send it into extra ends.

In the 11th, Sweden got an early miss from Canadian lead

Cori Bartel, who was light on her draw into the rings, and froze to a Canadian rock in the four-foot. And with her last rock, Norberg made an open tap on her own rock, leaving the two Swedish stones frozen at the top of the four-foot.

Bernard, in response, couldn’t make the double-takeout for the win, and the Swedish celebration was on.

Bernard, third Susan o’Connor, second Carolyn Darbyshire and Bartel (the team is rounded out by alternate Kristie moore and coach Dennis Balderston) were bidding to give Canada its first women’s curling gold medal since Sandra Schmirler in 1998 at Nagano.

But in the biggest game of their curling careers, the Canadian players struggled to rise to the occasion against the battle-hardened Swede, who was backed up by the same three players — third Eva lund, second Cathrine lindahl (Norberg’s sister) and lead Anna lemoine — when she won the gold in Turin.

Canada’s skip Cheryl Bernard shouts during the second end of the women’s Olympic curling gold medal game at the Vancouver Olympic Centre Friday.

London Games a possibility

olympic torch relay he also coached torchbearers on their communication skills, focusing on everything from public speaking to facial expression to body language.

“They’re passing people by very quickly, how do they put across a positive message? How do they get their specific messages across?” molineux explained. molineux is in talks to perform a similar role for torchbearers during the 2012 Summer olympic Games in london.

He also offers individual and group coaching in communication skills and public speaking, and teaches a comedy class at North Vancouver’s John Braithwaite Centre, with upcoming classes scheduled for mar. 7 and Apr. 11.

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West Van’s Chris Molineux is a stand-up comedian who also teaches communication skills.

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But they weren’t done. Less than an hour later that evening, Hamelin returned with brother Francois Hamelin, Tremblay and Olivier Jean for the 5,000-relay. The Canadian quartet had practised in secrecy earlier that day, working on a new strategy.

Whatever the Canadians had in mind paid off, as the home side held off a South Korean contingent that already boasted two gold and two silver medals between them and an Ohno-anchored American one with two silvers and a bronze.

The short track triumph launched Canada into third place in overall medal count with 21.

first with Patrick Marleau’s tip on a Shea Weber drive.Less than two minutes later Brendan Morrow

planted himself in front of Slovak goalie Jaroslav Halak to redirect Chris Pronger’s shot for the 2-0 lead.

The Canadian side had spoken earlier about the need to screen the five-foot, 11-inch Halak, who has been solid for the Slovaks thus far and turned in a creditable effort Friday.

In the second period, Richard Zednick earned a pointless turn in the penalty box and his teammates gave Canada’s Corey Perry enough time to call his parents, recheck his tax return and finally launch a shot that Halak saved but Ryan Getzlaf batted in on the rebound.

Slovakia wasn’t beaten though, and Edmonton Oiler Lubovir Visnosky scored with an unassisted effort midway through the third. The visitors looked the faster, hungrier side in the period, and despite taking a brutal revenge hit from Shea Weber, Slovakia’s Michael Handzus picked up Zednick’s pass to make it a one-goal game.

Roberto Luongo got more than one chance to play the hero in front of the home-town fans, and he kept Canada in front late in the third with a blind, sprawling glove save.

But the last-gasp Slovak onslaught was not enough.Luongo paused for a sporting moment in the

handshake lineup with Canucks teammate Pavol Demitra. The two men exchanged friendly smiles and handshakes.

In the other, earlier semifinal, play started badly and only got worse for the Finnish side against the Americans. Calgary Flames’ star netminder Miikka Kiprusoff made an appalling early error, storming out of his net to clear a loose puck and making a perfect pass to the United States’ Ryan Malone, who put the gift in the goal without hesitation.

Kiprusoff was clearly rattled and gave up two more quick power-play goals and the Finnish side essentially buckled, leaving the ice after 20 minutes down 6-0.

With the rest of the game a formality, Marius Holtet potted a consolation power-play goal for Finland in the third for a 6-1 American game.

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From page 3BEnJAMIn ALLDRITTballdritt@nsnews.comThe Canadian women’s world-record holding long-track speed skating pursuit team seemed unsure in the wake of a cruel loss by five one-hundredths of a second whether to blame the noise of the crowd or communication from their coaches.

Skating with the Americans, the two teams laid down the fastest times of the afternoon. But the second best overall time was not good enough to advance since the U.S. team won the quarter-final by the narrowest of margins.

Christine nesbitt clearly thought her team was ahead at the finish and was shocked at the elimination.

Canada was disappointing in the women’s 1,000-metre short track speed skating event, with Tania Vicent washing out in a quarter-final disqualification and both Jessica Gregg and Kalyna Roberge losing in their semifinals.

China’s Meng Wang scored her gold-medal hat-trick in the final,

American Katherine Reutter placed for a second Vancouver silver and South Korean Seung-Hi Park finished for her second bronze at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

At Cypress Mountain, the netherlands’ top-ranked skier nicolien Sauerbreij led the leaderboard with gold in women’s snowboard parallel giant slalom. Russian Ekaterina Ilyukhina placed second and Marion Kreiner won bronze for Austria. Alexa Loo placed 12th for Canada. All the women faced adverse weather.

Mara Reisch of Germany doubled her gold count with a win in ladies’ slalom in alpine skiing in Whistler, 0.43 seconds ahead of Austria’s Marlies Schild, who beat out Czech skier Sarka Zahrobska. Brigitte Acton was 17th for Canada.

Also in Whistler, norway kept up their biathlon romp with gold in the men’s 4x7.5-kilometre relay. Austria followed for silver and Russia was only two tenths of a second back for bronze. The Canadian foursome came 10th. — with files from Martin Millerchip

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