Canuck

  Saturday, 23 February 2002

 < 11:59:52 PM>.

CBC Sports Online : 2002 Winter Olympics - Canada golden in men's short-track relay It's amazing they had anything left.

Shortly after winning the gold and silver medals in the men's 500-metre short-track event, Marc Gagnon and Jonathan Guilmette led Canada to a gold medal in a lop-sided 5,000m relay final.

 < 11:40:40 PM>.

CBC Sports Online : 2002 Winter Olympics - Clara Hughes With her bronze-medal performance, she became the first Canadian and only the fourth athlete ever to win medals at both the Winter and Summer Games.

"I'm so happy, I feel like I'm going to throw up," a giddy Hughes told CBC after the race. "I just had to go out there and do it. I had the race of my life."

That's our girl!

< 11:31:38 PM>.

Awesome!

< 2:24:55 AM>.

Plus, you can see many more events covered live and in their entirety, from cross-country skiing to curling. That's our very lucky geographic bonus in the Motor City, snuggly adjacent to the Canadian border.

Most of America, however, has to make do with NBC's packaged programming geared to prime time, hosted by talented Bob Costas with a touch too much smirky glibness. "

 < 1:37:23 AM>.

Thestar.com/Canada aims for nothing but gold: "Most of today's Team Canada were either unborn or in short pants in 1972 when Paul Henderson's goal won the Summit Series over the Soviet Union and restored a nervous nation's sense of worth."

My how time flies. Hard to believe. It was definitely a defining moment in this country's history.