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They won just one medal at the Torino Olympics and the shipping company P&O, which once held the Empire together, has been sold to an Arab sheikdom, but the British still lead the world in heists. Since the Great Train Robbery in 1963, a succession of raids - each seemingly larger than the last - has provided a stream of ripping yarns for crime writers. Last week's entry into the genre, which may have netted ?40 million ($70 million) or even more - the precise figure has not been revealed - will doubtless spawn its own literary offspring. It's certainly...
...lose, Cindy Klassen defies the ego-charged image you might expect of a world-class athlete. Shy and 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...
...Last Thursday night, after watching her daughter receive a gold medal at Torino's magnificent Piazza Castello, Helga Klassen remembered that fateful day more than two years earlier. "When we got the call that night, we didn't know how serious her injury was," the athlete's mother says. Or how magnificently she would recover...
...Logic says Canada should do well at events on ice or snow. Since the Calgary Games of 1988, Canada's medal tally has grown steadily, as has its team. (Canada sent a record 196 athletes to Torino, 39 more than went to Salt Lake City in 2002.) The number of medals up for grabs has also swelled: Calgary played host to 46 events; Torino had 84. Of the six new events in 2006, Canada medaled in three: Maelle Ricker's bronze in snowboard cross and silvers in men's and women's speedskating team pursuit...
...Fully half of the events in Torino were added after 1984, and Canada excelled early, especially in those begun in the 1990s: freestyle skiing (1992), short-track speedskating (1992), women's biathlon (1994) and snowboarding, curling and women's hockey (1998). At Torino, Canada notched a pair of curling medals, making the nation six-for-six dating...