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...laid back, the speedskating superstar doesn't carry herself off-ice like the fiery locomotive that she becomes when she's racing. Klassen had the engine going full bore in Torino, taking five medals, which, added to a bronze from Salt Lake City, make her the winningest Canadian Olympian ever. Although a favorite to win multiple medals heading into Torino, her jittery performance in the 3,000-m event during the Games' first week got the doubters going. In the 3,000 m, Klassen overreacted to Dutch skater Ireen Wust's blazing time in an early pairing by altering...
...just for her but for the whole team. By the time she took a congratulatory call from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, she had won four medals. She added the fifth last Saturday in what she calls the "most dreaded race," the 5,000 m, to set a new Canadian standard. And Vancouver 2010 is still in the picture. Cross-country skier Beckie Scott, who won a silver medal but had hoped for more, said Klassen's ability to meet the goals so publicly set out for her makes her performance even more amazing...
...intrigues me as a Canadian to watch the news media and both houses of Congress tear apart the U.S. Because Oliver North took the Fifth, he is being smeared by the news media and by Congress as almost a traitor. Has it ever occurred to anyone that the opposite may be true? I submit that North is taking the blame to protect not himself but his country. Try giving him the benefit of the doubt until we know better, and let's have some discretion from the news media...
...terrorist acts by the U.S., Canada and the European Union, and it remains to be seen if terrorists can become legislators. A government controlled by Hamas, with its oft-stated aim of eliminating the state of Israel, does not bode well for the peace process. Bert Raphael Chairman, Canadian Lawyers and Jurists for World Jewry Toronto...
...with the magistrate. i.o.c. member Pescante said many in Italy's sports establishment consider the prosecutor a "type of fundamentalist," and that international games require a certain degree of diplomacy. "The Olympics," Pescante said, "are different from a bicycle race." Some athletes, however, like the idea of criminalizing doping. Canadian cross-country skier Beckie Scott, who finished third in the women's 5-km pursuit at Salt Lake City but was boosted into the gold medal position after two Russian skiers were thrown out, told Time: "Personally I think it [Italy's law] is a good thing, making...