With the Winter Games set to close Sunday night, you can almost hear the voices of Canadian officials saying, “We told you everything would work out.”
The Canadian team finished with the most gold medals, a result that didn’t seem possible after the Games’ first week. And to cap it with a gold medal in men’s hockey was a dream result for the host nation.
The overtime victory, 3-2, over the United States was a fitting culmination of these Games, in which Canada stood atop the podium more often that any other nation in Winter Olympics history and in which the United States ruled the overall medal count with a record total.
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Winter Games' legacy: Canadian resiliency
With the Winter Games set to close Sunday night, you can almost hear the voices of Canadian officials saying, “We told you everything would work out.”
The Canadian team finished with the most gold medals, a result that didn’t seem possible after the Games’ first week. And to cap it with a gold medal in men’s hockey was a dream result for the host nation.
The overtime victory, 3-2, over the United States was a fitting culmination of these Games, in which Canada stood atop the podium more often that any other nation in Winter Olympics history and in which the United States ruled the overall medal count with a record total.
Read it all.