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They flung their gloves skyward, and tournament MVP Hayley Wickenheiser paraded son Noah around the ice just as she did in Salt Lake City four years ago; some got teary as the national anthem played at Palasport Olimpico. But this time the celebration was more about relief than jubilation...
...Should Canadians, who expect nothing less than perfection in hockey, be worried? Upsets, of course, are always part of the equation in any Olympic event. And, says coach Pat Quinn, who also skippered the team at Salt Lake City in 2002 when Canada snapped a 50-year Olympic-gold-medal dry spell: "Talent isn't the only thing that wins here." Proper chemistry and discipline factor into the mix as well, and Canada showed little of either against the Swiss. Canadian forward Dany Heatley put it succinctly: "Things didn't go our way." In order to attain gold, this disparate...
...that if anything, the controversies have further unified Team Canada. "Growing up in Edmonton, watching [Gretzky] play with the Oilers, I remember how much fun they had as a group," says forward Jarome Iginla. "You want to be part of a team like that." A gold medalist in Salt Lake, Iginla, a star with the Calgary Flames, now has another chance in Torino. No pressure. Just the country's reputation at stake...
...kids for the nation's thousands of Soviet-style sports academies, where athletes are given free training in return for intense physical devotion. Even though China has no tradition of ice and snow sports and only started competing in the Winter Olympics in 1980, it won eight medals in Salt Lake City. At the halfway point in Torino, China had already secured six medals, including gold in women's short-track speedskating, and looks almost certain to surpass its 2002 record. This week's action includes several sports in which China has, in a decade, transformed itself from newbie competitor...
...athletes found refuge in the crime world. Others, who might normally have passed on their knowledge to the next generation, simply left the country, with top coaches Tatiana Tarasova and Tamara Moskvina both settling in America. Russia went from 23 medals at the 1994 Lillehammer Games to 13 at Salt Lake City in 2002. After Russia's uninspired showing at the last Winter Games, President Vladimir Putin lamented the country's parlous medical state?half of all Russian children and teenagers were in poor health?and emphasized the need for sports to improve the situation. Calls were made...